Sketch Maps: Drawing the Geographical Imagination
Seiten
2023
Brill (Verlag)
9789004543676 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
9789004543676 (ISBN)
Sketch maps, despite their informal appearance, are intellectual devices that reflect and shape geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. This book deciphers why and how the intuitive mechanisms behind sketch mapping activate knowledges about place and space.
Sketch maps, despite their intuitive, informal appearance and seemingly naïve use, are intellectual devices and efficient tools that shape the geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. By delineating the silhouettes of nations, we express territorial knowledge and geopolitical stereotypes that, although shaped at school from an early age, organized the way we interact with the world. why do we still need to draw maps? What is behind our common and naturalized practice of sketching maps? This innovative book deciphers why and how the intuitive mechanisms behind sketch mapping activate multiple conscious and unconscious knowledges about place and space.
Sketch maps, despite their intuitive, informal appearance and seemingly naïve use, are intellectual devices and efficient tools that shape the geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. By delineating the silhouettes of nations, we express territorial knowledge and geopolitical stereotypes that, although shaped at school from an early age, organized the way we interact with the world. why do we still need to draw maps? What is behind our common and naturalized practice of sketching maps? This innovative book deciphers why and how the intuitive mechanisms behind sketch mapping activate multiple conscious and unconscious knowledges about place and space.
Carla Lois (Ph.D. in history, Universidad de Buenos Aires) is a researcher at CONICET and an associate professor at University of Buenos Aires. She has published extensively on the history of cartography, including Terrae Incognitae. Modos de pensar y mapear geografías desconocidas (Eudeba, 2018).
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction: Maps and Geography
1 The (Carto)graphic (Im)pulse
2 Maps for Education: from Academies to Schools
3 Instructions to Promote Graphic Skills to Learn Geography
4 Figures, Silhouettes, Geometrical Shapes and Geopolitical Imagination
Final Remarks: Open Questions to Be Answered
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Brill Research Perspectives in Map History |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 213 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004543676 / 9789004543676 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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