[GIS Book/PDF] Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS

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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 disciplines Represents the first in-depth summary of the “new cartography” that has appeared since the early 1990s Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory Content: Chapter 1 Maps – A Perverse Sense of the Unseemly (pages 1–12): Chapter 2 What Is Critique? (pages 13–24): Chapter 3 Maps 2.0: Map Mashups and New Spatial Media (pages 25–38): Chapter 4 What Is Critical Cartography and GIS? (pages 39–48): Chapter 5 How Mapping Became Scientific (pages 49–61): Chapter 6 Governing with Maps: Cartographic Political Economy (pages 62–80): Chapter 7 The Political History of Cartography Deconstructed: Harley, Gall, and Peters (pages 81–97): Chapter 8 GIS After Critique: What Next? (pages 98–111): Chapter 9 Geosurveillance and Spying with Maps (pages 112–127): Chapter 10 Cyberspace and Virtual Worlds (pages 128–143): Chapter 11 The Cartographic Construction of Race and Identity (pages 144–159): Chapter 12 The Poetics of Space: Art, Beauty, and Imagination (pages 160–176): Chapter 13 Epilogue: Beyond the Cartographic Anxiety? (pages 177–184):

Book Info

Author(s): Jeremy W. Crampton(auth.), John Paul Jones(eds.)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2010

ISBN: 9781405121729,9781444317411

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