Este articulo analiza el significado historico de un folleto impreso hacia 1713 por la Compania de Jesus para promocionar la mision de Mojos, situada en el nordeste de la actual Bolivia. Aunque los ...historiadores generalmente se refieren a este documento como <<el mapa de la mision de Mojos>>, en este estudio se argumenta que el folleto de 1713 es mucho mas que un mapa, pudiendose entender como el equivalente de una tipica cronica misional jesuita. Esto es de gran relevancia, pues la Compania de Jesus siempre marco la consolidacion de sus numerosas misiones en America con la publicacion de una magna cronica con la que publicitar sus esfuerzos evangelizadores. En el caso de Mojos, aunque nunca se publicaria una cronica de la mision, el folleto de 1713 cumple dicha funcion, pues no solo esta estructurado de la misma forma que la tipica cronica misional jesuita, cuyo modelo habia sido establecido por Jose de Acosta a finales del siglo XVI, sino que ademas sigue, de manera fiel, todos los principios discursivos que dieron forma a las cronicas jesuitas.
Mapping Crampton, Jeremy W
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Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for ...the non-specialist reader. * Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines * Represents the first in-depth summary of the "new cartography" that has appeared since the early 1990s * Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers * Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies * Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory
This article presents a consideration of W.G. Sebald's 2001 work Austerlitz-his final novel-according to a variety of spatial and cartographic concepts, including 'fluid cartography,' and the notion ...of countermapping. Particularly, the article will explore the eponymous protagonist's sense that 'time does not exist at all, only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry,' and will demonstrate how this subjective experience of time is a consequence of the absence of memory experienced by the protagonist in relation to his origins as a Kindertransport survivor of the Holocaust. Similarly, the article will explore how spaces-particularly buildings-and material artefacts come to act as an (insufficient) surrogate for memory within the text. All of the above will be framed according to a reading of the fundamental spatiality of Sebald's works, and particularly their map-like quality.
Kurzfassung Both qualitative research in geography and visual geographies have an ambivalent relationship to maps and cartographic methods. Reasons for this include discourse-theoretical approaches ...to maps and cartography since the 1980s, the tension between the self-images of modern cartography and the methodological perspectives of qualitative approaches, the relationship between map and image, or the role of technology in cartography and GIS. On the one hand, this ambivalent relationship can be well explained historically. On the other hand, a number of possible connections can be pointed out. Based on current discussions in geography and beyond, the article therefore explores and systematizes practices of critical mapping in order to explore new possibilities of connection between visual approaches of qualitative geographies and maps.
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