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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520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction: Maps and Geography -- 1 The (Carto)graphic (Im)pulse -- 1.1 Defining Sketch Maps -- 1.2 Mental Maps and Their Graphic Inscription -- 2 Maps for Education: from Academies to Schools -- 2.1 Maps at Saloons and Academies: a Method for Enlightenment -- 2.2 Maps at School: a Method for Education -- 3 Instructions to Promote Graphic Skills to Learn Geography -- 3.1 Instructions for Teachers -- 3.2 Instructions for Students -- 3.2.1 Sketching a Map from Memory and on a Blank Sheet -- 3.2.2 Sketching a Map on an Empty Grid, a Graphic or "Lettering" Skeleton, from a Text or from a Combination of Skeleton and Texts -- 4 Figures, Silhouettes, Geometrical Shapes and Geopolitical Imagination -- 4.1 The Silhouette, the Logotype Map and the National Geographical Imaginaries -- 4.2 Territorial Contours and Geopolitical Premises -- Final Remarks: Open Questions to be Answered -- Bibliography. | |
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