A History of Spaces : Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World.

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This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live. Going beyond the focus of traditional cartography...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pickles, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Temas:
Cartography.
Maps.
Maps as Topic
Cartographie.
Cartes géographiques.
cartography (discipline)
Cartography
Maps
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • PART I: Introduction
  • 1 Maps and worlds
  • PART II: Deconstructing the map
  • 2 What do maps represent? The crisis of representation and the critique of cartographic reason
  • 3 Situated pragmatics: maps and mapping as social practice
  • PART III: The over-coded world: a genealogy of modern mapping
  • 4 The cartographic gaze, global visions and modalities of visual culture
  • 5 Cadastres and capitalisms: the emergence of a new map consciousness
  • 6 Mapping the geo-body: state, territory and nation
  • 7 Commodity and control: technologies of the social body
  • PART IV: Investing bodies in depth
  • 8 Cyber-empires and the new cultural politics of digital spaces
  • PART V: Conclusion
  • 9 Counter-mappings: cartographic reason in the age of intelligent machines and smart bombs
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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