Crampton Mapping

A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5673-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Critical Introductions to Geography

Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS isan introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping andGeographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range ofdisciplines for the non-specialist reader.
* Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems(GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and otherrelated disciplines
* Represents the first in-depth summary of the "newcartography" that has appeared since the early 1990s
* Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartographyis, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad,interdisciplinary set of readers
* Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-worldcase studies
* Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS andmapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crampton, Jeremy W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.