Readings

Articles and Books on Critical Cartography:

***If you know of any other helpful readings, please suggest them in the comment box below!***

*for 1st meeting: “Maps Work by Serving Interests” – Ch. 1 of Denis Wood’s The Power of Maps  

*for 2nd meeting: Catch-up on reading from the 1st week (read Wood’s “Maps Work by Serving Interests”).  Recommended for those new to cartography – two outlines of lectures by J.B. Krygier - “Maps and Human Understanding” and “Cartographic Maps”. Also recommended for some historical background: “An Introduction to Critical Cartography” by Jeremy W. Crampton and John Krygier (2006).

Making Maps: a visual guide to map design for GIS by John Krygier and Denis Wood (the only intro to GIS book written by radical cartographers) - (Ch.1 “What exactly is a map, and why are maps and map making so powerful?”)

“Counter-Mappings” (Ch. 9 in John Pickles’ _A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World_ (2004))

“What do maps represent? The crisis of representation and the critique of cartographic reason” and “Situated pragmatics: Maps and mapping as social practice” (Chs. 2 & 3 in Pickles’ _A History of Spaces_ (2004))

“Rethinking Maps” by Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge (2007)

ELSE/WHERE: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories by Janet Abrams and Peter Hall (eds.) (2006)

An Atlas of Radical Cartography (2008 )

Bill Bunge, Fitzgerald: Geography of a Revolution, and his “Detroit Geographical Expedition” project

Denis Wood, “The Atlas as Narrative Form”

Katharine Harmon, “You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination”

Edward Tufte, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”