The Look of Surveillance Returns: Reflection Essay: Between Demythologizing and Deconstructing the Map

Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 379-392

  Sparke, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

'Deconstructing the Map' article making sense of maps, representations of knowledge about the world, tied to relations of power in the world; 'foundationalism' in the latest Dictionary of Human Geography; Biographical introduction into its critical geography; Examining maps in terms of Michel Foucault's arguments about concatenation of 'power knowledge'; Michel Foucault's arguments about concatenation of 'power knowledge'; Neo geo technologies being neoliberal and neocolonial; Neo geo technologies, and critical work for human rights alongside formal GIScience; The look of surveillance returns reflection essay, between demythologizing and deconstructing the map; The Power of Maps, of public interest the role maps play in everyday life

Indexed keywords

'DECONSTRUCTING THE MAP' ARTICLE - MAKING SENSE OF MAPS, REPRESENTATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE WORLD, TIED TO RELATIONS OF POWER IN THE WORLD; 'FOUNDATIONALISM' - IN THE LATEST DICTIONARY OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION - INTO ITS CRITICAL GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN RIGHTS; MICHEL FOUCAULT; NEO-GEO TECHNOLOGIES - BEING NEOLIBERAL AND NEOCOLONIAL; PUBLIC INTEREST;

EID: 84861936153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470669488.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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