Sketch maps : : drawing the geographical imagination / / Carla Lois.
"Sketch maps, despite their intuitive, informal appearance and seemingly nai¨ve use, are intellectual devices and efficient tools that shape the geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. By delineating the silhouettes of nations, we express territorial knowledg...
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| Superior document: | Map history (Brill Academic Publishers) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Map history (Brill Academic Publishers)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (117 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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| Other title: | Sketch Maps |
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| Summary: | "Sketch maps, despite their intuitive, informal appearance and seemingly nai¨ve use, are intellectual devices and efficient tools that shape the geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. By delineating the silhouettes of nations, we express territorial knowledge and geopolitical stereotypes that, although shaped at school from an early age, organized the way we interact with the world. why do we still need to draw maps? What is behind our common and naturalized practice of sketching maps? This innovative book deciphers why and how the intuitive mechanisms behind sketch mapping activate multiple conscious and unconscious knowledges about place and space"-- |
| ISBN: | 9004547304 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Carla Lois. |