Territorial imaginaries : beyond the sovereign map / edited by Kären Wigen.

Other author Wigen, Kären, 1958- editor.
Format Book
PublicationChicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxi, 219 pages : color illustrations, maps (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Subjects

Contents Mapping practices before the nation-state. Ambiguous territories: mapping Siberia in the era of Peter the Great / Valerie Kivelson ; From people to territory: (the Chinggisid) sovereignty transformed? / Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene ; Maps for failed states / Peter K. Bol ; On the Ottoman arguments during the Congress of Karlowitz (1699) / Ali Yaycıoğlu -- Pushing back against the sovereign map. Territorial challenges at interstate borders: where and how history matters / Alexander B. Murphy and Cy Abbott ; Reconceptualizing the state and its alternatives: ideas, infrastructures, representations / Jordan Branch ; Voluminous, scattered, distorted: on the limits of cartographic representations / Franck Billé -- From critique to counter-cartography. Indigenous sovereignty out of time / Barbara E. Mundy ; Erasing the other: maps, bordering, and political power / Guntram Herb ; Visualizing shared dominion in the Holy Roman Empire: dilution, orientation, oscillation / Luca Scholz.
Abstract "The edited volume Territorial Imaginings contends that conventional mapping practices are inadequate to illustrate the complex and multi-faceted reality of territory and political sovereignty both past and present. What we understand to be modern mapping, the volume argues, developed to represent a Westphalian order of sovereign states that never was and still is not sufficient to capture the many varieties of territorial and political arrangements globally. Volume editor Kären Wigen has assembled an impressive slate of contributors who speak to this overarching contention through a variety of scholarly approaches and case studies, covering many geographical regions and time periods. The essays encompass three main themes: mapping practices before the nation state, ways to rethink or critique mapping practices, and robust traditions of counter-cartography. Like Wigen's last volume, Time in Maps, this book features a striking array of maps and other images, and will be printed with color throughout"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Territorial imaginaries. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2025 9780226839011
LCCN 2024033897
ISBN9780226839004
ISBN0226839001 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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