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Time for Mapping: Cartographic Temporalities

Time for Mapping: Cartographic Temporalities

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General Sociology

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ISBN10: 1526122537
ISBN13: 9781526122537
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jun 7 2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Maps take place in time as well as representing space. The Google map on your smartphone appears to fix the world, serving as a practical spatial tool, but in practice is deployed in ways that draw attention to memories, rhythm, synchronicity, sequence and duration. This interdisciplinary collection focuses on how these temporal aspects of mapping might be understood, at a time when mapping technologies have been profoundly changed by digital developments. It contrasts different aspects of this temporality, bringing together experts from critical cartography, media studies and science and technology studies. Together the chapters offer a unique interdisciplinary focus revealing the complex and social ways in which time in wrapped up with digital technologies and revealed in everyday mapping tasks: from navigating across cities, to serving as scientific groundings for news stories; from managing smart cities, to visual art practice. It brings time back into the map!

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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