UID:
almahu_9948208626502882
Format:
VII, 216 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 1996.
ISBN:
9781349244270
Content:
An original and wide-ranging study of the mappings used to impose meaning on the world, Mapping Reality argues that maps create rather than merely represent the ground on which they rest. Distinctions between map and territory questioned by some theorists of the postmodern have always been arbitrary. From the history of cartography to the mappings of culture, sexuality and nation, Geoff King draws on an extensive range of materials, including mappings imposed in the colonial settlement of America, the Cold War, Vietnam and the events since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. He argues for a deconstruction of the opposition between map and territory to allow dominant mappings to be challenged, their contours redrawn and new grids imposed.
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780333640340
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780333640357
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781349244287
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780312127060
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780312127046
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-349-24427-0
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24427-0
