Mapping – A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS

Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for the non-specialist reader.
* Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines
* Represents the first in-depth summary of the "new cartography" that has appeared since the early 1990s
* Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers
* Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies
* Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory

Part I MAPPING AND ITS DISCONTENTS.1 Mapping landscape.2 How to lie with maps.3 Mapping and technology.4 Critiques of GIS and cartography.Interlude 1: The Peters projection controvery.PART II WHY USE MAPS.5 The communication model in the C20.6 Emergence of thematic mapping in modern Europe.7 Contemporary GIS as governmental rationality.Interlude 2: Maps, silences, and secrecy.Part III PRODUCING AND REPRESENTING THE LANDSCAPE.8 Mapping and the production of space.9 Producing the intangible: mapping cyberspace.10 GIS and society.Interlude 3: GIS and security.PART IV TOWARDS A POLITICS OF GIS AND CARTOGRAPHY.11 Genealogy and politics of GIS and cartography.12 From the national body to the personal body.13 Dwelling in the polis