Mappings

By: Denis Cosgrove (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 January 1999

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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

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Non-Fiction Mathematics Calculus & Mathematical Analysis Functional Analysis & Transforms Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Geography Cartography Society & Culture Cultural Studies History of Ideas History General & World History

Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Travel Maps & Atlases

Notes on the Editor and Contributors
Introduction: Mapping Meaning	p. 1
Mapping in the Mind: The Earth from Ancient Alexandria	p. 24
Mapping Eden: Cartographies of the Earthly Paradise	p. 50
Terrestrial Globalism: Mapping the Globe in Early Modern Europe	p. 71
Mapping Places: Chorography and Vision in the Renaissance	p. 90
Mapping, the Body and Desire: Christopher Packe's Chorography of Kent	p. 109
Dark with Excess of Bright: Mapping the Coastlines of Knowledge	p. 125
Mapping Tropical Waters: British Views and Visions of Rio de Janeiro	p. 148
Mapping Modernity: Utopia and Communications Networks	p. 169
The Uses of Cartographic Literacy: Mapping, Survey and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain	p. 193
The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention	p. 213
Mapping and the Expanded Field of Contemporary Art	p. 253
References	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 301
Photographic Acknowledgements	p. 304
Index	p. 305
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