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Area Content Alert: Volume 43, Issue 4 (December 2011)
The latest issue of Area is available on Wiley Online Library. Click past the break to view the full table of contents. Special section – Theorising life transitions: geographical perspectives...
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When is a ‘map’ not a map? When it’s a Sat Nav!
By Stephen Axon, Janet Speake and Kevin Crawford Dangerous, fun or pretty sweet? Attitudes towards Sat Nav use(Artist: George Sneyd) The rapid popularisation and extensive distribution of Sat Nav...
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Who’s Behind our Maps?
Jen Dickie The headlines this week demonstrate how ubiquitous maps have become; yesterday alone there were at least 5 maps being used by The Guardian and the BBC to illustrate information to their...
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The Map Precedes the Territory
Martin Mahony The new map at the centre of a geopolitical dispute Geographers and critical cartographers have long acknowledged that maps do not simply and unproblematically represent the territory...
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Minding the Gap in Cartography: from maps to mapping practices
by Fiona Ferbrache World Map from 1664 If the biologist’s iconic tool of the trade is a microscope, then the geographer’s might well be a map. Both tools offer an alternative perspective of the world,...
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