Mapping Across Academia

392 Pages·2017·16.26 MB·English

by  Stanley D. Brunn

Stanley D. Brunn · Martin Dodge E ditors
Mapping
Across
Academia
Mapping Across Academia
Stanley D. Brunn Martin Dodge
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Editors
Mapping Across Academia
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Editors
Stanley D.Brunn Martin Dodge
Department ofGeography Department ofGeography, School
University of Kentucky ofEnvironment andDevelopment
Lexington, KY University of Manchester
USA Manchester
UK
ISBN978-94-024-1009-9 ISBN978-94-024-1011-2 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-024-1011-2
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Preface
Theeditorsofthisvolumesharethreecommonandoverlappinginterests.First,we
are very interested in looking at space, place, and space/time intersections within
geography and other disciplines, fields, and subfields. While space is an important
component in geographical studies, whether personal, local, regional, or global
spaces,wedonotconsidergeographyastheonlydisciplinethatstudiesspace.This
volume attests to our interest in seeing how other fields and disciplines, even in
some very imaginative and creative ways, explore the meanings of space. Second,
weareespeciallyinterestedinhowgeography-relatedfieldsinthesocialandnatural
sciences and the humanities map spaces, places, and space/time relations. The
contributors to this volume address mapping issues and topics, not only by pre-
sentingexamplesforwiderscholarlycommunities,butalsobyissuingchallengesto
their own colleagues to focus new or renewed attention on space/place mapping.
Wealsobelievestronglythatgeographyisnottheonlydisciplinewithaninterestin
mapping, but a discipline that has much to help other fields and disciplines learn
additional insights that can come from describing and analyzing map patterns and
processes. Third, we are in solid agreement that there remains much more about
mapping across the academy that awaits junior and senior scholars in traditional
fields and disciplines and those willing to explore the margins and peripheries
of their knowledge fields and specializations. It is those porous open frontiers and
spaces where new ways of mapping and visualization can become realities. We
anxiously await those scholars who work at these space and space/time intersec-
tions to see what kinds of maps and diagrams will emerge from studying archi-
tecture and language, art and biology, law and ecology, sustainability and green
energy, genetics and brain mapping, psychology and religion, politics and climate
change, music and language, gender and lifeworlds.
While assemblingand editing thisvolumerepresents a shared effort, we readily
admit that there are others who have influenced our career research, thinking, and
ongoingcreativeefforts.Thenameswouldanddoincludeourfriendsingeography
and also those visionaries in related fields whose writings, interviews, and per-
spectives have challenged us to think and be comfortable outside our intellectual
comfort zones. Some are ongoing inspirations; others influenced our thinking
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from writings thirty or forty years ago. To be sure, a complete list of all would be
lengthy and probably also have some omissions. But we wish to identify the
following as being especially important in our expansive views about geography
andrelateddisciplines.StanBrunnwouldidentifythesegeographers,whicharenot
listed in any order of importance: Wilbur Zelinsky, Anne Buttimer, Yi-Fu Tuan,
Gilbert White, John K. Wright, Peter Gould, Dick Morrill, Gillian Rose, Karl
Butzer, Don Janelle, Bill Warntz, and David Lowenthal. Nongeographers would
includeArthurC.Clarke,CarlSagan,JaneGoddall,StephenGould,LesterBrown,
Stephen Hawking, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Alvin Toffler, John McHale, and
John Naisbett.
Lexington, KY, USA Stanley D. Brunn
Manchester, UK Martin Dodge
Acknowledgements
Thiseditedvolumehas taken awhiletoreach fruition,andwe arevery grateful to
theforbearanceofallthecontributorsfortimeithastaken,particularlytheefficient
authors who submitted their chapters at the beginning of the process.
Many thanks to Donna Gilbreath, Stan’s longtime supportive managing editor
on previous volumes, for her diligent help in preparing this manuscript for
publication.
Thanks also to Graham Bowden, at the University of Manchester Cartography
Unit, for his expertise in creating some of the illustrations.
Finally, we want to thank Stefan Einarson at Springer for shepherding the
manuscript through the process. We are also grateful to earlier supporters at
Springer, Evelien Bakker and Bernadette Deelen-Mans, who encouraged us to
move forward with this pioneering volume.
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Contents
What Is Where? The Role of Map Representations
and Mapping Practices in Advancing Scholarship. .... .... ..... .... 1
Stanley D. Brunn and Martin Dodge
Physical Landscapes.... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 23
Mike J. Smith and James S. Griffiths
Making Sense of Cities: The Role of Maps in the Past,
Present, and Future of Urban Planning . .... .... .... .... ..... .... 45
Amy Hillier
Ecology and Space: A Case Study in Mapping
Harmful Invasive Species.... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 63
David T. Barnett, Catherine Jarnevich, Geneva W. Chong,
Thomas J. Stohlgren, Sunil Kumar and Tracy Holcombe
Mapping the Universe... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 83
J. Richard Gott III
Mapping the Human Body: A GIS Perspective ... .... .... ..... .... 105
Jane L. Garb
The Brain and Its Maps: An Illustrative History.. .... .... ..... .... 123
Jordan P. Harp and Walter M. High
Weather Maps. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 145
James R. Carter
Mapping in Public Health ... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 169
Lance A. Waller
Languages .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 183
Roland Kehrein
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Landscape: The Thing About Landscape’s Nature:
Is It a Creature/Monster of the Map?... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 209
Kenneth R. Olwig
Mapping Power.... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 223
Edoardo Boria
“Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps
and Literature. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 259
Andrew Frayn
Music, Maps and the Global Jukebox: Culture Areas
and Alan Lomax’s Cantometrics Projects Revisited.... .... ..... .... 287
John R. Gold, George Revill and Daniel Grimley
Cultural and Participatory Mapping.... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 305
Ann Kingsolver, Manuel Boissière, Michael Padmanaba,
Ermayanti Sadjunin and Sasikumar Balasundaram
Mapping Religiously, or Religiously Minding the Map? .... ..... .... 323
Lillian I. Larsen
Maps, Mapping and the Visual Arts.... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 349
Lou Cabeen
The Contested Maps, Multiple Worlds, and Negotiable
Borders of Theatre . .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 375
Edmund B. Lingan
Index .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 389
What Is Where? The Role of Map
Representations and Mapping Practices
in Advancing Scholarship
Stanley D. Brunn and Martin Dodge
Abstract This chapter provides a general introduction to the Mapping Across
Academia volume and gives some context regarding the development of cartog-
raphy.Weconsiderhowtheemergenceoftheimpulsetomapspacehadprofoundly
shapedhowpeopleunderstandtheworldaroundthemandperformawidearrayof
spatial practices. Following on from this we discuss more contemporary develop-
ments in terms of the wholesale computerisation of cartography in the second half
ofthetwentiethandon-goingchanges inmappingpracticesthroughtheenrolment
ofdigitaltechnologies.Thechapterswitchestracktothinkaboutthesignificanceof
thedevelopmentofvisualdisplaysofintellectualideasusingspatialapproachesand
the recent growth in efforts to map out the structures of scientific knowledge.
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Keywords Cartography Map cultures Geography of knowledge
1 The Emergence of the Mapping Impulse
Moremappingofmore domainsbymore nationswillprobablyoccur inthenextdecade
thanhasoccurredatanytimesinceAlexandervonHumboldt‘rediscovered’theearthinthe
eighteenthcentury,andmoreterraincognitawillbechartedthaneverbeforeinhistory
—StephenS.Hall,MappingtheNextMillennium(1992:22)
How many maps, in the descriptive or geographical sense, might be needed to deal
exhaustivelywithagivenspace,tocodeanddecodeallitsmeaningsandcontent?
—HenriLefebvre,TheProductionofSpace(1991:85)
S.D.Brunn(&)
DepartmentofGeography,UniversityofKentucky,Lexington,KY,USA
e-mail:[email protected]
M.Dodge
DepartmentofGeography,UniversityofManchester,Manchester,UK
e-mail:[email protected]
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