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Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS

ISBN: 978-1-4051-2173-6
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230 pages
February 2010, ©2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments vi

List of Figures viii

List of Tables xi

About the Cover: Size Matters xii

1 Maps – A Perverse Sense of the Unseemly 1

2 What Is Critique? 13

3 Maps 2.0: Map Mashups and New Spatial Media 25

4 What Is Critical Cartography and GIS? 39

5 How Mapping Became Scientific 49

6 Governing with Maps: Cartographic Political Economy 62

7 The Political History of Cartography Deconstructed: Harley, Gall, and Peters 81

8 GIS After Critique: What Next? 98

9 Geosurveillance and Spying with Maps 112

10 Cyberspace and Virtual Worlds 128

11 The Cartographic Construction of Race and Identity 144

12 The Poetics of Space: Art, Beauty, and Imagination 160

13 Epilogue: Beyond the Cartographic Anxiety? 177

References 185

Index 203

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