The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation

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Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011. — 478 p. — ISBN 0470742839The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a powerful representational form and explores how different mapping practices have been conceptualised in particular scholarly contexts.Themes covered include paradigms, politics, people, aesthetics and technology. Original interpretative essays set the literature into intellectual context within these themes. Excerpts are drawn from leading scholars and researchers in a range of cognate fields including: Cartography, Geography, Anthropology, Architecture, Engineering, Computer Science and Graphic Design.The Map Reader provides a new unique single source reference to the essential literature in the cartographic field:more than fifty specially edited excerpts from key, classic articles and monographs critical introductions by experienced experts in the field focused coverage of key mapping practices, techniques and ideas a valuable resource suited to a broad spectrum of researchers and students working in cartography and GIScience, geography, the social sciences, media studies, and visual arts full page colour illustrations of significant maps as provocative visual ‘think-pieces’ fully indexed, clearly structured and accessible ways into a fast changing field of cartographic researchConceptualising MappingIntroductory Essay: Conceptualising MappingGeneral Theory, from Semiology of GraphicsOn Maps and Mapping, from The Nature of Maps: Essays toward Understanding Maps and MappingThe Science of Cartography and its Essential ProcessesAnalytical CartographyCartographic Communication Design on Signs/Myth and Meaning in Maps Deconstructing the MapDrawing Things Together Cartography without ‘Progress’: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of MapmakingExploratory Cartographic Visualisation: Advancing the Agenda The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention Beyond the ‘Binaries’: A Methodological Intervention for Interrogating Maps as Representational Practices Rethinking MapsTechnologies of MappingIntroductory Essay: Technologies of Mapping A Century of Cartographic Change, from Technological Transition in CartographyManufacturing Metaphors: Public Cartography, the Market, and Democracy Maps and Mapping Technologies of the Persian Gulf War Automation and Cartography Cartographic Futures on a Digital EarthCartography and Geographic Information Systems Remote Sensing of Urban/Suburban Infrastructure and Socio-Economic Attributes Emergence of Map Projections, from Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections Mobile Mapping: An Emerging Technology for Spatial Data AcquisitionExtending the Map Metaphor Using Web Delivered Multimedia Imaging the World: The State of Online MappingCartographic Aesthetics and Map DesignIntroductory Essay: Cartographic Aesthetics and Map DesignInterplay of Elements, from Cartographic Relief Presentation Cartography as a Visual Technique, from The Look of Maps Generalisation in Statistical Mapping Strategies for the Visualisation of Geographic Time-Series DataThe Roles of Maps, from Some Truth with Maps: A Primer on Symbolization and Design Area Cartograms: Their Use and Creation ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps Maps, Mapping, Modernity: Art and Cartography in the Twentieth Century Affective Geovisualisations Egocentric Design of Map-Based Mobile Services The Geographic Beauty of a Photographic Archive Cognition and Cultures of MappingIntroductory Essay: Cognition and Cultures of Mapping Map Makers are Human: Comments on the Subjective in MapsCognitive Maps and Spatial Behaviour: Process and ProductsNatural Mapping The Map as Biography: Thoughts on Ordnance Survey Map, Six-Inch Sheet Devonshire CIX, SE, Newton AbbotReading Maps Mapping Reeds and Reading Maps: The Politics of Representation in Lake Titicaca Refiguring Geography: Parish Maps of Common Ground Understanding and Learning MapsCitizens as Sensors: The World of Volunteered GeographyUsability Evaluation of Web Mapping Sites Power and Politics of MappingIntroductory Essay: Power and Politics of Mapping The Time and Space of the Enlightenment Project, from The Condition of Postmodernity Texts, Hermeneutics and Propaganda Maps Mapping: A New Technology of Space; Geo-Body, from Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation First Principles of a Literary Cartography, from Territorial Disputes: Maps and Mapping Strategies in Contemporary Canadian and Australian Fiction Whose Woods are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia A Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography, and the Narration of Nation Cartographic Rationality and the Politics of Geosurveillance and SecurityAffecting Geospatial Technologies: Toward a Feminist Politics of Emotion Queering the Map: The Productive Tensions of Colliding EpistemologiesMapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography