Mapping
A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS
Critical Introductions to Geography
1. Edition January 2010
232 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
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
