Mapping

A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS

AvJeremy W. Crampton

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for the non-specialist reader. Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplinesRepresents the first in-depth summary of the “new cartography” that has appeared since the early 1990sProvides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readersPresents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studiesBrings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-01-22
Mått:170 x 244 x 15 mm
Vikt:409 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Introductions to Geography
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781405121736

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Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

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Jeremy W. Crampton is Associate Professor of Geography at Georgia State University, where he teaches cartography and political geography. He is the author of The Political Mapping of Cyberspace (2003) and Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography (edited with Stuart Elden, 2007), and is the editor of the journal Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments viList of Figures viiiList of Tables xiAbout the Cover: Size Matters xii1 Maps – A Perverse Sense of the Unseemly 12 What Is Critique? 133 Maps 2.0: Map Mashups and New Spatial Media 254 What Is Critical Cartography and GIS? 395 How Mapping Became Scientific 496 Governing with Maps: Cartographic Political Economy 627 The Political History of Cartography Deconstructed: Harley, Gall, and Peters 818 GIS After Critique: What Next? 989 Geosurveillance and Spying with Maps 11210 Cyberspace and Virtual Worlds 12811 The Cartographic Construction of Race and Identity 14412 The Poetics of Space: Art, Beauty, and Imagination 16013 Epilogue: Beyond the Cartographic Anxiety? 177References 185Index 203