Abysmal

Hardcover • 2007 • English

Abysmal

By Gunnar Olsson

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About the book

People rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers in "Abysmal" an astonishingly erudite critique of the way human thought and action have become deeply immersed in the rhetoric of cartography and how this cartographic reasoning allows the powerful to map out other people's lives. A spectacular readin...Show more

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ISBN

9780226629308

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Abysmal

Format

Hardcover

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