'Mappings explores what mapping meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. It addresses some of the following provocative questions: How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds? How has the practice of mapping shaped modern seeing and knowing? In what ways do changes in our experience of the world alter the meanings and practice of mapping, and vice versa?

'Among the topics that the authors investigate are mappings of terrestrial space on a large scale; mapping and localism, or the 'chorographic' scale; personal mappings on and of the human body; and cosmographic or imaginative mappings beyond the scale of direct earthly experience.' (Excerpt from back cover)

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English

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Publication/Creation date

1999

No of pages

320

ISBN / ISSN

9781861890214

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction: Mapping Meaning - Denis COSGROVE

Mapping in the Mind: The Earth from Ancient Alexandria - Christian JACOB

Mapping Eden: Cartographies of the Earthly Paradise - Alessandro SCAFI

Terrestrial Globalism: Mapping the Globe in Early Modern - Jerry BROTTON

Mapping Places: Chorography and Vision in the Renaissance - Lucia NUTI

Mapping, the Body and Desire: Christopher Packe's Chorography of Kent - Michael CHARLESWORTH

Dark with Excess of Bright: Mapping the Coastlines of Knowledge - Paul CARTER

Mapping Tropical Waters: British Views and Visions of Rio de Janeiro - Luciana DE LIMA MARTINS

Mapping Modernity: Utopia and Communication Networks - Armand MATTELART

The Uses of Cartographic Literacy: Mapping, Survey and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain - David MATLESS

The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention - James CORNER

Mapping and the Expanded Field of Contemporary Art - Wystan CURNOW

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