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Mapping Reality

An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Geoff King
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. The Map that Precedes the Territory

    • Geoff King
    Pages 1-17

  3. World Views

    • Geoff King
    Pages 18-39

  4. Maps of Meaning

    • Geoff King
    Pages 40-56

  5. Mapping the Void

    • Geoff King
    Pages 57-77

  6. The Thicket of Unreality

    • Geoff King
    Pages 78-102

  7. Mapping the Frontier

    • Geoff King
    Pages 103-136

  8. The Imperialist Map: Beyond Materialism and Idealism

    • Geoff King
    Pages 137-166

  9. Deconstructing the Map

    • Geoff King
    Pages 167-185

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 186-216
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An original and wide-ranging study of the mappings used to impose meaning on the world, Mapping Reality argues that maps create rather than merely represent the ground on which they rest. Distinctions between map and territory questioned by some theorists of the postmodern have always been arbitrary. From the history of cartography to the mappings of culture, sexuality and nation, Geoff King draws on an extensive range of materials, including mappings imposed in the colonial settlement of America, the Cold War, Vietnam and the events since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. He argues for a deconstruction of the opposition between map and territory to allow dominant mappings to be challenged, their contours redrawn and new grids imposed.

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