Object-Oriented Cartography: Maps as Things

ISBN-13: 9780367729387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 150 str.

Tania Rossetto

Opis

Object-Oriented Cartography provides an innovative perspective on the changing nature of maps and cartographic study. Through a renewed reading of contemporary cartography, this book acknowledges the shifted interest from cartographic representation to mapping practice, proposing an alternative consideration of the ‘thingness’ of maps.

Spis treści

Introduction: layers of map thinking;  1. (Re)Turning to cartographic things;  2. From object-oriented ontology (OOO) to map studies, and vice versa;  3. Stretching theories: cartographic objects, map acts;  4. To rest on cartographic surfaces;  5. Learning from cartifacts, drifting through mapscapes;  6. The productive failures of literary cartographic objects: the father, the son, The Road, and the broken map;  7. The gentle politics of non-human narration: a Europe map’s autobiography;  8. Pictured maps, object renderings and close readings;  9. Animated cartography, or entering in dialogue with maps;  10. Maps vis-à-vis maps: (in-car) navigation, coexistence and the digital others;  11. Re-visitations at cartographic sites: the becomings and ‘unbecomings’ of maps;  12. Conclusions

O autorze

Tania Rossetto is Assistant Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Padova (Italy). Her research interests include the relationship between map studies and visual studies, the embodiment of maps, the ethnography of mapping practices, the portrayal of maps, cartography and racial/ethnic otherness, and the use of visual ways to display cartographic research. She has also worked on the linkage between cartographic theory and literary studies, and in particular on literary geovisuality. On these subjects she has published in journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Social & Cultural Geography, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space and Cartographica.