Mapping

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

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