Power Lines: The Rhetoric of Maps as Social Change in the Post-Cold War Landscape

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  • Author(s): Barney, Timothy
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Quarterly Journal of Speech. Nov 2009 95(4):412-434.
  • Publication Date:
    2009
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Descriptive
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      23
    • Subject Terms:
      Foreign Countries; World History; Social Change; Cartography; Atlases; Decision Making; Power Structure; Visual Aids; Maps; War; Social Systems; Political Attitudes; Democracy; Perspective Taking; Ideology; Spatial Ability
    • Subject Terms:
      Europe; Germany (Berlin); United States; USSR
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/00335630903296176
    • ISSN:
      0033-5630
    • Abstract:
      After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of state socialism in Eastern and Central Europe, cartographers were faced with choices on how the new post-Cold War political landscape would be mapped. One such group called the Pluto Project had been producing atlases since 1981 with a progressive point of view about the nature of state power in the Cold War. This essay examines two of the Pluto Project's atlases as they function to identify a radical cartographic style that animates the social control of space by subverting traditional cartographic forms and defying scientific expectations and standards. (Contains 94 notes.)
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2009
    • Accession Number:
      EJ862888