Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic ReasonPeople rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers in Abysmal an astonishingly erudite critique of the way human thought and action have become deeply immersed in the rhetoric of cartography and how this cartographic reasoning allows the powerful to map out other people’s lives. |
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A Critique of Cartographic Reason Gunnar Olsson. A CRITIQUE OF CARTOGRAPHIC REASON Gunnar Olsson The University of Chicago Press Chicago & London gunnar olsson is professor emeritus of economic geography at Uppsala. ABYSMAL.
... London © 2007 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2007 Printed in the United States of America 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 5 4 3 2 1 The publication of this book was supported by a grant from Riksbankens ...
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