Maps have always been sneaky. They are supposed to tell us where things are, but the truth is every map lies. Not because cartographers are villains twirling mustaches in dark basements, but because lying is baked into the very act of mapping. A map is, at best, a polite cheat. You cannot cram the real world, messy and infinite, onto
Tag: geography
Mention the years 1905, 1939, and 1959 in the opening lines of a geography paper and most readers will roll their eyes, expecting some crusty old theory from the 1960s gathering dust in the archives. But Pattison’s Four Traditions of Geography refuses to be a relic. It is the skeleton that still props up the flesh of the discipline. And