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Re-Reading Spatial Citizenship and Re-Thinking Harley’s Deconstructing the Map

    Michael Lehner, Jana Pokraka, Inga Gryl, Kirstin Stuppacher

GI_Forum 2018, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp. 143-155, 2018/12/10

Journal for Geographic Information Science

doi: 10.1553/giscience2018_02_s143

doi: 10.1553/giscience2018_02_s143


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doi:10.1553/giscience2018_02_s143



doi:10.1553/giscience2018_02_s143

Abstract

This paper questions Harley’s (1989) specific way of interpreting and dealing with ‘the map’. Contrasting Harley’s perspective with Derrida’s approach of deconstruction provides a more detailed understanding of the potentials and limits of Harley’s practice for a critical understanding of maps. Moreover, this paper offers an alternative practice for a critical reading of maps, rooted in Adorno’s concept of Mündigkeit and Derrida’s deconstruction.

Keywords: deconstruction, Mündigkeit, education, spatial citizenship, map-reading