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Territorial imaginaries : beyond the sovereign map / edited by Kären Wigen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cartography.
- Sovereignty.
- Human territoriality.
- Boundaries.
- Geographical perception.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.) : 51 color plates
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and political sovereignty, whether past or present. For Territorial Imaginaries, editor Kären Wigen has assembled an impressive slate of experts, spanning disciplines from political science to art history, to contribute perspectives and case studies covering three main themes: mapping before the nation-state, rethinking and critiquing mapping practices, and robust traditions of counter-cartography. Each contributor proposes alternative ways to think about mapping, and the essays are supported with rich archival documentation. Among the far-reaching case studies are Barbara Mundy’s cartographic history of Indigenous dispossession in the Americas, Peter Bol’s examination of two Chinese maps created five hundred years apart, and Ali Yaycıoğlu’s exploration of tensions between top-down and bottom-up mapping of Habsburg and Ottoman border claims.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I Mapping Practices before the Nation-State
- 1 Ambiguous Territories
- 2 From People to Territory
- 3 Maps for Tailed States
- 4 On the Ottoman Arguments during the Congress of Karlowitz ( 1699)
- PART II Pushing Back against the Sovereign Map
- 5 Territorial Challenges at Interstate Borders
- 6 Reconceptualizing The State and Its alternatives
- 7 Voluminous, Scattered, Distorted
- PART III From Critique to Counter-Cartography
- 8 Indigenous Sovereignty Out of Time
- 9 Erasing The Other
- 10 Visualizing Shared Dominion in the Holy Roman Empire
- NOTES
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780226839011
- 022683901X
- OCLC:
- 1511480009
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