Maps for the future.

Geographers’ relations with maps have a long story of attraction and repulsion. The map has always fascinated Geographers (even before the institutionalization of the discipline) as a powerful tool, able to demarcate territories, to produce different visions of them and to transform them by the acti...

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Main Author: Cristina D’Alessandro-Scarpari
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Association Espaces Temps 2005-05-01
Series:EspacesTemps.net
Online Access:http://www.espacestemps.net/document1327.html
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description Geographers’ relations with maps have a long story of attraction and repulsion. The map has always fascinated Geographers (even before the institutionalization of the discipline) as a powerful tool, able to demarcate territories, to produce different visions of them and to transform them by the actions they may cause or influence. Sometimes for strategic reasons Geographers have also denigrated cartography as a secondary and technical form of knowledge, a tool merely for understanding and ...
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