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 1moves 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.

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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

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.