Rethinking the power of maps / Denis Wood ; with John Fels and John Krygier.
Language: English Publisher: New York : Guilford Press, cop. 2010Description: x, 335 p. ill., maps 26 cmISBN:- 9781593853662
- 1593853661
- 9781606237076
- 1606237071
- 912 22/swe
- Ny
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps , this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of mapmaking and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today. Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Two Simple Examples (p. 2)
- Making a Map of Mars (p. 4)
- Mapping (p. 7)
- Counter-Mapping (p. 8)
- Part I Mapping
- 1 Maps Blossom in the Springtime of the State (p. 15)
- Maps Give Us a Reality beyond Our Reach (p. 15)
- And a Map Is...? (p. 18)
- The Development of the Map Discourse Function (p. 19)
- Trying to Write the History of Mapmaking (p. 21)
- There Were No Maps before 1500 (p. 22)
- Calling Older Graphic Notation Systems "Maps" Is Anachronistic (p. 26)
- The Rise of Mapmaking in the Early Modern State (p. 27)
- Maps Figure the State (p. 30)
- As the Map Affirms the State, the State Affirms the Map (p. 33)
- Maps Unleashed (p. 35)
- 2 Unleashing the Power of the Map (p. 39)
- Maps Advance Propositions (p. 39)
- Maps Make Arguments (p. 42)
- Maps Propose the Existence of Things (p. 44)
- The Map's Propositional Logic (p. 51)
- The Posting (p. 53)
- "This Is...": The Precedent Existential Proposition (p. 56)
- "This Is...": The Posting or Fundamental Cartographic Proposition (p. 58)
- Adding Postings Up to Make Territories: "This 1 is there 1 " and "this 2 is there 2 " and "this 3 is there 3 " make "this 4 is there 4 " (p. 59)
- The Transmission of Authority: "This 1 is there 1 ," and "this 2 is there 2 " but "there 1 (p. 61)
- Annexation, Division, and Entrained Operations (p. 64)
- 3 Signs in the Service of the State (p. 67)
- The Legends of the Map (p. 67)
- But Then Maps Are Myths (p. 72)
- Everything's in Code (p. 78)
- At Least 10 Cartographic Codes (p. 80)
- 4 Making Signs Talk to Each Other (p. 86)
- Varieties of Iconcity (p. 87)
- Inviting Words to Realize Their Expressive Potential (p. 90)
- Shaping Space (p. 92)
- What Time Has This Place? (p. 93)
- It's Not a Simple Set of Rules (p. 97)
- Maps Are about Relationships (p. 98)
- Elemental Signs Are Somewhere (p. 99)
- Sign Systems Go Somewhere (p. 102)
- Sign Systems in Dialogue (p. 103)
- Injecting the Map into Its Culture (p. 106)
- Part II Counter-Mapping
- 5 Counter-Mapping and the Death of Cartography (p. 111)
- Protest Maps (p. 112)
- Maps in Protest (p. 114)
- Critical Cartography (p. 120)
- Cartographers Intentionally Foreclosed This Awareness (p. 120)
- Early Critique in the History of Mapmaking (p. 126)
- Critique within the Profession of Cartography (p. 128)
- The Outside Critique: Indigenous Mapping (p. 129)
- The Outside Critique: The Parish Maps Project (p. 143)
- 6 Talking Back to the Map (p. 156)
- Public? Participation? Geographic? Information? Systems? (p. 158)
- Public Participation (p. 160)
- The Reframing of Public Discourse (p. 164)
- The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute (p. 166)
- The Situationist International (p. 171)
- Jake Barton's City of Memory (p. 177)
- Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (p. 187)
- 7 Map Art: Stripping the Mask from the Map (p. 189)
- Joyce Kozloff (p. 189)
- A Little History: Dada and Surrealism (p. 190)
- A Little More History: Letterism, Situationism, Pop, and Fluxus (p. 200)
- A Little More History Yet: Conceptual Art, Earth Art (p. 203)
- Map Art Exhibitions: A Tedious but Necessary Section (p. 209)
- What Is All This About? (p. 214)
- Lize Mogel (p. 218)
- kanarinka (p. 220)
- 3Cs (p. 220)
- Lauren Rosenthal (p. 223)
- elin O'Hara slavick and Susanne Slavick (p. 224)
- Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault (p. 227)
- Simon Elvins (p. 228)
- Steven R Holloway (p. 229)
- 8 Mapmaking, Counter-Mapping, and Map Art in the Mapping of Palestine (p. 231)
- The Early Mapping of Palestine (p. 232)
- The Early Modern Mapping of Palestine (p. 235)
- Mapping and Counter-Mapping in Mandatory Palestine (p. 237)
- British Maps, Israeli Counter-Maps, Now Palestinian Counter-Counter-Maps (p. 243)
- Art Mapping the Conflict and the Occupation (p. 249)
- There Aren't Two Sides (p. 254)
- Notes (p. 257)
- Index (p. 329)
- About the Authors (p. 335)