Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS

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