Maps and politics
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Maps and politics
(Picturing history series)
Reaktion Books, 1997
Available at 22 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 169-180
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The question of whether the power and purpose of maps are inherently political is addressed by this book, which seeks to emphasize that the apparent "objectivity" of the map-making and map-using process cannot be divorced from aspects of the politics of representation. Maps have played, and continue to play, a major role in both international and domestic politics; they show how visual geographical representations can be made to reflect and progress political agendas in powerful ways. The major developments in this field over the last century are responses both to cartographic advances and to a greater emphasis on graphic imagery in societies affected by politicization, democratization, and consumer and cultural shifts. The author argues that maps are not straightforward visual texts, but contain political and politicizing subtexts that need to be read with care. He examines various issues such as ethnicity, the role of socio-economic forces, the influence of mapping on elections, the mapping of frontiers, and the place of maps in warfare, to show to maps and politics overlap.
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