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A cartographic turn : mapping and the spatial challenge in social sciences / edited by Jacques Lévy ; foreword by Rob Kitchen ; postscript by Tim Ingold.
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Lausanne, Switzerland : EPFL Press, a Swiss academic publisher, [2015]
New York, NY : Distributed by Routledge
©2015
Description
336 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GA108 .C34 2015
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Cartography
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Maps
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Map drawing
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Editor
Lévy, Jacques, 1952-
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Lévy, Jacques, 1952-
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Writer of supplementary textual content
Kitchen, Rob
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Ingold, Tim, 1948-
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Summary note
"'The Cartographic Turn' contains contributions on maps and cartography from multiple authors from various disciplines: geography, demography, cartography, art theory, architecture and philosophy. While such diversity could imply that this book is a collection of independent contributions gathered only by their topic, this impression would be misleading. Rather, this book develops four simple propositions that actually can be streamlined into a single concept expressed through four different perspectives. Above all, maps convey rational, aesthetic, ethical and personal messages, at times separately but more often in unison, and this mix offers ample fields for studying social complexity. Beyond that, maps are, by their very existence, both representations of pre-existing spaces and creations of new spaces. Consequently, the historical or anthropological analysis of maps as semantic objects should be connected to the production of new maps, namely those that take advantage of the powerful tools provided by digital technology. Finally, the issues of contemporary mapping should be read in light of recent innovations within social sciences on space. Before this cartographic turn, technicians, historians, users and exegetes were distinct and decidedly turned away from each other.The era of the singular engineer-designed map is past. Maps have gained many new actors, and these actors are critical thinkers. This book would modestly like to contribute to a durable association between mapping and reflexivity. Cartographers, historians of cartography, geographers, visual scientists and artists, social scientists as well as advanced students in these disciplines will appreciate and benefit from reading 'The Cartographic Turn'" -- Provided by publisher.
Notes
Subtitle from cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction : Mapping is thinkable, thinking is mappable / Jacques Lévy
Map as resource. When maps reflect / Christian jacob ; Maps in perspective : what can philosophy learn from experimental maps in conemporary art? / Patrice Maniglier ; The cartographic dimension of contemporary art / Mare-Ange Brayer ; What the atlas does to the map / Elsa Chavinier, Carole Lanois, Jacques Lévy and Véronique Mauron
Maps as language. Space for reason / Jacques Lévy ; Cartographic semiosis : reality as representation / Emanuela Casti ; Doing the right Map? Congitive and/or ethical choices / Jacques Lévy and Elsa Chavinier
Where are we on the map? Mapping ethics / Jacques Lévy ;A reappraisal of teh ecological fallacy / Hervé Le Bras ; Mapping otherness / Emanuela Casti ; Mapping the global mobile space : the nomadic space as sample / Denis Retaillé
Who is the author of this map? 'My' maps? On maps and their authors / Patrick Poncet ; Lost in transduction : from digital footprints to urbanity / Boris Beaude ; augmented reality and the place of dreams / André Ourednik
After cartography / Tim Ingold.
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ISBN
9782940222704 ((EPFL Press))
2940222703 ((EPFL Press))
9780415729130 ((Routledge))
0415729130 ((Routledge))
OCLC
858355319
International Article Number
9780415729130
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