Object-Oriented Cartography

<p><em>Object-Oriented Cartography</em> provides an innovative perspective on the changing nature of maps and cartographic study. Through a renewed theoretical reading of contemporary cartography this book acknowledges the shifted interest from cartographic representation to mapping practice and proposes an alternative consideration of the ‘thingness’ of maps.</p><p></p><p>Rather than asking how maps map onto reality it explores the possibilities of a speculative-realist map theory by bringing cartographic objects to the foreground. Through a pragmatic perspective this book focuses on both digital and nondigital maps and establishes an unprecedented dialogue between the field of map studies and object-oriented ontology. This dialogue is carried out through a series of reflections and case studies involving aesthetics and technology ethnography and image theory and narrative and photography.</p><p></p><p>Proposing methods to further develop this kind of cartographic research this book will be invaluable reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of Cartography and Geohumanities.</p><p></p>