The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities

The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities offers a vibrant exploration of the intersection and convergence between map studies and the humanities through the multifaceted traditions and inclinations from different disciplinary, geographical and cultural contexts. With 42 chapters from leading scholars, this book provides an intellectual infrastructure to navigate core theories, critical concepts, phenomenologies and ecologies of mapping, while also providing insights into exciting new directions for future scholarship. It is organised into seven parts: Part 1 moves from the depths of the humans–maps relation to the posthuman dimension, from antiquity to the future of humanity, presenting a multidisciplinary perspective that bridges chronological distances, introspective instances and social engagements. Part 2 draws on ancient, archaeological, historical and literary sources, to consider the materialities and textures embedded in such texts. Fictional and non-fictional cartographies are explored, including layers of time, mobile historical phenomena, unmappable terrain features, and even animal perspectives. Part 3 examines maps and mappings from a medial perspective, offering theoretical insight into cartographic mediality as well as studies of its intermedial relations with other media. Part 4 explores how a cultural cartographic perspective can be productive in researching the digital as a human experience, considering the development of a cultural attentiveness to a wide range of map-related phenomena that interweave human subjectivities and nonhuman entities in a digital ecology. Part 5 addresses a range of issues and urgencies that have been, and still are, at the centre of critical cartographic thinking, from politics, inequalities and discrimination. Part 6 considers the growing amount of literature and creative experimentation that involve mapping in practices of eliciting individual life histories, collective identities and self-accounts. Part 7 examines the variety of ways in which we can think of maps in the public realm. This innovative and expansive Handbook will appeal to those in the fields of geography, art, philosophy, media and visual studies, anthropology, history, digital humanities and cultural studies as well as industry professionals.

Table of Contents:
List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction: Why Cartographic Humanities? Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti Part 1: Preludes and trends Chapter 1 Mapping Inner Worlds: Cartography as a Humanity Veronica Della Dora Chapter 2 Chorography, Cartography and the Geospatial Humanities Javier Arce-Nazario, Janet Downie, Tim Shea, John Pickles, Toni Veneri Chapter 3 Processual Map History Matthew Edney Chapter 4 Spatial Anthropology and Deep Mapping Les Roberts Chapter 5 Don’t Believe the Mapping Hype! Three Steps Back for an Engaged Cartography Paul Schweizer, Severin Halder (kollektiv orangotango) Chapter 6 Posthuman Cartographies Joe Gerlach Part 2: Textural connections Chapter 7 In brevi tabella. Thinking with Diagrams in Late Antiquity Salvatore Liccardo Chapter 8 Archaeology, Crafting Maps and Political Change Piraye Hacıgüzeller Chapter 9 Charting Movement through Historical Sources Tiago Luís Gil Chapter 10 Zoocentric Texts and Cartographic Contradictions Sally Bushell Chapter 11 Writing with Maps Julien Nègre Chapter 12 A Plea for Slow Mapping Jörn Seemann Part 3: Mediations and intermedialities Chapter 13 A Media-theory of (Western) Cartographic Imagination Tommaso Morawski Chapter 14 The Map in Cinema and Cinema on the Map Giorgio Avezzù Chapter 15 The Antithetical Cartographies of Geospatial Cinema Chris Lukinbeal Chapter 16 Firing up Map Thinking: Music Videos Meta-maps Tania Rossetto Chapter 17 Worlds for Sale: Cartography in Print Advertisements Davide Papotti Chapter 18 Maps as Design Tools: Space, Time and Experience Roger Paez Blanch, Manuela Valtchanova, Ferran Larroya, Josep Perelló Part 4: Cultural digitalities Chapter 19 Digital Narcissism and GPS Selfies: The Entry of the Self Claire Reddleman Chapter 20 Automated Mapping Cultures Sam Hind Chapter 21 Map Fetishism and the Power of Maps: A Feminist-technoscience Perspective Valentina Carraro Chapter 22 Ethnography and Maps in the Digital Age Mike Duggan Chapter 23 A Humanistic Rewire of GIScience Bo Zhao Chapter 24 The Cine-Tourist’s Online Cartographic Curiosity Cabinet Tadas Bugnevicius Part 5: Troubles and disruptions Chapter 25 Emptying and filling. Maps of inland Africa Andrea Pase Chapter 26 Cartography Contra Colonialism Clancy Wilmott Chapter 27 Indigenous Cartographies Davi Pereira Junior, Bjørn Sletto Chapter 28 Black Cartography as Memory Work Stephen P. Hanna Chapter 29 Gender and Mapping Culture Christina Dando Chapter 30 Mapping as a Mode of Governance in the Anthropocene David Chandler Part 6: Elicitations and co-creations Chapter 31 Co-Creative Mapping of Memories Élise Olmedo, Emmanuelle Kayiganwa, Sébastien Caquard Chapter 32 Mapping as the Art of Listening to Jewish Mediterranean Migrations Piera Rossetto Chapter 33 Drawing (on) Cartographic Intimacies Laura Lo Presti Chapter 34 Auto-cartography. (Fictional) Ethnographies of the Self and the Map in the Field Giada Peterle Chapter 35 Re-situating Participatory Cultural Mapping as Community-centred Work Nancy Duxbury, W.F. Garrett-Petts Chapter 36 Mapping Narratives on Historical Tours Stephen P. Hanna, Amy E. Potter, Derek H. Alderman Part 7: Public cartographic humanities Chapter 37 The Social Life of Maps Martin Brückner Chapter 38 Public Map Exhibitions: What Goes in and What Comes out Tom Harper Chapter 39 Participatory Network Mapping for Public Action Barbara Brayshay, Aldo de Moor Chapter 40 The Public Outreach of the ICA Commission on Art & Cartography Taien Ng-Chan Chapter 41 The (Aesth)Ethics of Publishing Geopolitical Maps Laura Lo Presti, Tania Rossetto Chapter 42 MapLab: A Bloomberg Newsletter Connecting Maps and the News Laura Bliss, Marie Patino Index

About the Author :
Tania Rossetto is Associate Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Padua, Italy. Laura Lo Presti is Junior Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Padua, Italy.

Review :
'Maps move, and this Handbook assembles a variety of vantage points to witness such movements: textual, sensorial and the more-than-representational, cinematic and the virtual, resistive and mundane, grounded and atmospheric, monumental and ephemeral. Careful to not recuperate mapmaking but make it more responsible, more resonating, this collection bends, without breaking, the reverberative potential of the drawn line. It leaves mapmaking practices more curious, more open, more vibrational, without the privilege of an ahistorical treatment.' Matthew W. Wilson, Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky, USA 'Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti have compiled a state-of-the-art collection of commentaries on the many ways in which the humanities and cartography are joined at the hip. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary cast of writers on the cutting edge of geohumanistic enquiry they show how the seemingly instrumental rationalities of the map have always been, and always should be, richly discursive endeavours embedded in strategies of domination and resistance. This is a must-read collection for scholars across the humanities interested in the role of cartography in human meaning-making.' Tim Cresswell, Ogilvie Professor of Geography, University of Edinburgh, UK 'Mapping remains an extraordinarily diverse and generative technique for mediating the world. Committed to theoretical and methodological pluralism, this outstanding collection explores its technologies, politics and consequences through a rich range of case studies drawn from across "cartographic culture", both historical and contemporary.' Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford, UK