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Author | : Denis Wood |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780898624939 |
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This volume ventures into terrain where even the most sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power. Like paintings, they express a point of view. By connecting us to a reality that could not exist in the absence of maps--a world of property lines and voting rights, taxation districts and enterprise zones--they embody and project the interests of their creators. Sampling the scope of maps available today, illustrations include Peter Gould's AIDS map, Tom Van Sant's map of the earth, U.S. Geological Survey maps, and a child's drawing of the world. THE POWER OF MAPS was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design.
Author | : Denis Wood |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2010-04-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 160623708X |
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A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of mapmaking and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today. Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art.
Author | : Tim Marshall |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2022-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982178639 |
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"Originally published in Great Britain in 2021 by Elliott and Thompson Limited"--Copyright page.
Author | : Ward L. Kaiser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
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Synopsis: Maps become a means of seeing the world from many perspectives in this appealing guide, which is aimed at training readers to look at images with a critical eye. The authors (a social scientist and a pastor/community organizer) challenge readers to stretch their intellectual boundaries while they wrap their minds around demonstrations of the many ways of making maps and the truth that no way is "the right one." A final chapter provides a guide to using map projections in human resource development and adult education. It's a smart book but not a beautiful one-many of the illustrations went muddy in the transfer from color to b&w, and seven unlovely pages of the publisher's advertising precede the index. Wide format: 11x8.5.
Author | : Denis Wood |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2010-04-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1593853661 |
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A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of map making and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today. Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art. The book will be important reading for geographers and others interested in maps and their political uses. It will also serve as a supplemental text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses such as Cartography, GIS, Geographic Thought, and History of Geography.
Author | : Christine Leuenberger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190076232 |
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"This book traces how the geographical sciences have become entwined with politics, territorial claim making, and nation-building in Israel/Palestine. In particular, the focus is on the history of geographical sciences before and after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and how surveying, mapping, and naming the new territory become a crucial part of its making. With the 1993 Oslo Interim Agreement, Palestinians also surveyed and mapped the territory allocated to a future State of Palestine, with the expectation that they will, within five years, gain full sovereignty. In both cases, maps served to evoke a sense of national identity, facilitated a state's ability to govern, and helped delineate territory. Besides maps geopolitical functions for nation-state building, they also become weapons in map wars. Before and after the 1967 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors, maps of the region became one of the many battlefields in which political conflicts over land claims and the ethno-national identity of this contested land were being waged. Aided by an increasingly user-defined mapping environment, Israeli and Palestinian governmental and non-governmental organizations increasingly relied on the rhetoric of maps in order to put forth their geopolitical visions. Such struggles over land and its rightful owners in Israel/Palestine exemplify processes underway in other states across the globe, whether in South Africa or Ukraine, which are engaged in disputes over territorial boundaries, national identities, and the territorial integrity of nation-states. Maps, no less, have become crucial tools in these struggles"--
Author | : Denis Wood |
Publisher | : Siglio Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Boylan Heights (Raleigh, N.C.) |
ISBN | : 9781938221026 |
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Introduction / Ira Glass -- Everything sings / Denis Wood -- Maps for a narrative atlas -- Interview with Denis Wood / Blake Butler -- In the Heights / Albert Mobilio -- Everything sings triptych / Ander Monson.
Author | : Peter Barber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : 9780712350921 |
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the British Library, London, April 30-Sept. 19, 2010.
Author | : Clare Pedrick |
Publisher | : CTA |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2016-12-31 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
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Participatory geographic information systems (PGIS) combine a range of geo-spatial information management tools and methods such as sketch maps, participatory 3D models (P3DM), aerial photographs, satellite images, global positioning systems (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS). CTA has been in the forefront of activities to promote PGIS across African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. Impact assessments undertaken in all six ACP regions have documented how empowering PGIS can be for rural and at times marginalised communities. This publication documents some of the success stories that have emerged as a result of CTA’s initiatives in PGIS in recent years. We are firmly committed to building the capacities of our partners to make better use of PGIS, so they can have a voice in the development of sound policies for agricultural development and sustainable management of natural resources.
Author | : Denis Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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