%0 Journal Article
%T Post-representational cartography Cartografia post-rappresentativa
%A Rob Kitchin
%J lo Squaderno
%D 2010
%I professionaldreamers
%X Over the past decade there has been a move amongst critical cartographers to rethink maps from a post-representational perspective ¨C that is, a vantage point that does not privilege representational modes of thinking (wherein maps are assumed to be mirrors of the world) and automatically presumes the ontological security of a map as a map, but rather rethinks and destabilises such notions. This new theorisation extends beyond the earlier critiques of Brian Harley (1989) that argued maps were social constructions. For Harley a map still conveyed the truth of a landscape, albeit its message was bound within the ideological frame of its creator. He thus advocated a strategy of identifying the politics of representation within maps in order to circumnavigate them (to reveal the truth lurking underneath), with the ontology of cartographic practice remaining unquestioned.
%K Maps: beyond the artifact / Mappe: oltre l'artefatto
%K lo Squaderno No. 15
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