Book: Rethinking Maps

From the Publishers: Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps (Routledge Studies in Human Geography) brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship. It offers a contemporary assessment of the diverse forms that mapping now takes and, drawing upon a number of theoretic perspectives and disciplines, provides an insightful commentary on new ontological and epistemological thinking with respect to cartography.

This book presents a diverse set of approaches to a wide range of map forms and activities in what is presently a rapidly changing field. It employs a multi-disciplinary approach to important contemporary mapping practices, with chapters written by leading theorists who have an international reputation for innovative thinking. Much of the new research around mapping is emerging as critical dialogue between practice and theory and this book has chapters focused on intersections with play, race and cinema. Other chapters discuss cartographic representation, sustainable mapping and visual geographies. It also considers how alternative models of map creation and use such as open-source mappings and map mash-up are being creatively explored by programmers, artists and activists. There is also an examination of the work of various ‘everyday mappers’ in diverse social and cultural contexts.

Rethinking Maps (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)
Edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, Chris Perkins

Chapters:

1. Thinking about Maps
By Rob Kitchin, Chris Perkins and Martin Dodge

2. Rethinking Maps and Identity: Choropleths, Clines and Biopolitics
By Jeremy W. Crampton

3. Rethinking Maps from a more-than-human Perspective: Nature-society,
Mapping, and Conservation Territories
By Leila Harris and Helen Hazen

4. Web mapping 2.0
By Georg Gartner

5. Modelling the Earth: A Short History
By Michael F. Goodchild

6. theirwork: the Development of Sustainable Mapping
By Dominica Williamson and Emmet Connolly

7. Cartographic Representation and the Construction of Lived Worlds:
Understanding Cartographic Practice as Embodied Knowledge
By Amy Propen

8. The 39 Steps and the Mental Map of Classical Cinema
By Tom Conley

9. The Emotional Life of Maps and Other Visual Geographies
By Jim Craine and Stuart Aitken

10. Playing with Maps
By Chris Perkins

11. Ce n.est pas le Monde [This is not the world]
By John Krygier and Denis Wood

12. Mapping Modes, Methods and Moments: A Manifesto for Map Studies
By Martin Dodge, Chris Perkins and Rob Kitchin