A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-coded WorldThis 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, the book draws on examples of the use of maps from the sixteenth century to the present, including their role in projects of the national and colonial state, emergent capitalism and the planetary consciousness of the natural sciences. It also considers the use of maps for military purposes, maps that have coded modern conceptions of health, disease and social character, and maps of the transparent human body and the transparent earth. |
Contents
Maps and worlds | 3 |
PART II | 20 |
maps and mapping as social | 60 |
PART III | 73 |
the emergence of a new | 92 |
state territory and nation | 107 |
technologies of the social body | 124 |
Investing bodies in depth | 143 |
PART V | 177 |
Notes | 195 |
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Other editions - View all
A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-coded World John Pickles Limited preview - 2004 |
A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World John Pickles Limited preview - 2012 |
A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-coded World John Pickles No preview available - 2004 |
Common terms and phrases
abstract argued Brian Harley bricolage broader cadastral mapping called carto cartographic imagination cartographic reason century claims coded complex conception construction contemporary context crisis of representation cultural deconstruction Denis Wood Derek Gregory deterritorialization Digital Earth discourse earth economy emergence epistemology European Figure geo-body geographical information systems global graphic Gunnar Olsson Henricus Hondius hermeneutic history of cartography history of spaces human identity important interests interpretation land landscape Latour map-making map-reader mapping practices maps and mapping meaning metaphor modern Monmonier nature objects Olsson particular perspective Pickles political Power of Maps power-knowledge practices of mapping produced propaganda maps Prospecting for Customers reality regimes relations represent role scientific sense social theory society spatial specific surveys symbolic technical techniques technologies territory theory of maps Thongchai tion tool turn understanding University Visible Human Project visual Wood writing