Object-Oriented Cartography

Maps as Things

Tania Rossetto (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)

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English

Routledge
18 December 2020

Anthropology; Geography; Human geography; Cartography, map-making & projections

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

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

Rather than asking how maps map onto reality, it explores the possibilities of a speculative-realist map theory by bringing cartographic objects to the foreground. Through a pragmatic perspective, this book focuses on both digital and nondigital maps and establishes an unprecedented dialogue between the field of map studies and object-oriented ontology. This dialogue is carried out through a series of reflections and case studies involving aesthetics and technology, ethnography and image theory, and narrative and photography.

Proposing methods to further develop this kind of cartographic research, this book will be invaluable reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of Cartography and Geohumanities.

By: Tania Rossetto (Università degli Studi di Padova Italy)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367729387
ISBN 10: 0367729385
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Pages: 150
Publication Date: 18 December 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.