New Directions in Radical Cartography: Why the Map is Never the Territory - Paperback

by Phil Cohen (Editor), Mike Duggan (Editor)

New Directions in Radical Cartography looks at the contemporary debates about the role of maps in society. It explores the emergence of counter-mapping as a distinctive field of practice, and the impact that digital mapping technologies have had on cartographic practice and theory. It includes original research, accounts of mapping projects and detailed readings of maps. The contributors explore how digital mapping technologies have sponsored a new wave of practices that seek to challenge the power that maps are commonly assumed to have. They document the continued vitality of analogue maps in the hands of artists and activists who are pushing the boundaries of what is mappable in different ways. New Directions in Radical Cartography draws on a rich body of mapping work that exists as part of community action, urban ethnography, environmental activism, humanitarianism, and public engagement.

Author Biography

Phil Cohen is the co-founder and Research Director of the LIVINGMAPS Network. He is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London.

Mike Duggan is a Lecturer in Digital Culture, Society and Economy in the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. He is the editor-in-chief of the Livingmaps Review, a bi-annual journal for radical and critical cartography.