Mapping modes, methods and moments: a manifesto for map studies

Abstract

By way of conclusion to Rethinking Maps we want to set out a manifesto for map \nstudies for the coming decade. Its goal is to generate ideas and enthusiasm for \nscholarship that advances our understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of \nmaps, and also enhances the practices of mapping. This is not a call for ever more \nintrospective intellectual navel gazing about maps. Instead it traces routes and \nmethods that might help people to do mapping differently and more productively, in \nways that might be more efficient, democratic, sustainable, ethical, or even more fun. \nThis manifesto is, of course, preliminary and partial, coming as it does from a social \nscientific tradition and the authors’ experiences as Anglophone human geographers. It \nalso focuses on understanding everyday mapping practices and the various sociotechnological \ninfrastructures that are a necessary, but often unquestioned, support for \ncontemporary mapping. The aim is to suggest and provoke. Our manifesto for map \nstudies is structured into three “levels”, firstly looking at modes (“what to study”), \nsecondly, methods (“how to study”), and finally moments (“when and where to \nstudy”).

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