Mappings - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1861890214 ISBN 13 : 9781861890214

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 1999

Synopsis

Mappings explores what mapping has meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds? How has the practice of mapping shaped modern seeing and knowing? In what ways do contemporary changes in our experience of the world alter the meanings and practice of mapping, and vice versa?

In their diverse expressions, maps and the representational processes of mapping have constructed the spaces of modernity since the early Renaissance. The map's spatial fixity, its capacity to frame, control and communicate knowledge through combining image and text, and cartography's increasing claims to scientific authority, make mapping at once an instrument and a metaphor for rational understanding of the world.

Among the topics the authors investigate are projective and imaginative mappings; mappings of terraqueous spaces; mapping and localism at the 'chorographic' scale; and mapping as personal exploration.

With essays by Jerry Brotton, Paul Carter, Michael Charlesworth, James Corner, Wystan Curnow, Christian Jacob, Luciana de Lima Martins, David Matless, Armand Mattelart, Lucia Nuti and Alessandro Scafi

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Denis Cosgrove is professor in the department of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author or editor of many books, including Mappings, Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes, and High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains and Ice. William L. Fox is a writer, independent scholar, and poet. He is also the author of Approaching Nowhere, Observing in an Occupied Wilderness and Oblivion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861890214
• ISBN 13: 9781861890214
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Cosgrove Denis
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• Personne responsable: non disponible