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Publications

2010. Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Revised manuscript submitted and book is in production! ISBN: 978-1405121736. Anticipated publication February 2010.

Suggested cover design by Wiley-Blackwell.

20?? History of Cartography, Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Mark Monmonier. Entries on "Jovan Cvijic" and "The Cartographic Construction of Race." University of Chicago Press.

2010. “Performative, Participatory, Political.” Progress in Human Geography, Forthcoming. Online First availability or DOI number 10.1177/0309132508105000

??. “Mapping Without a Net. What the Geospatial Web Can Learn from the Political Blogosophere.” Aether, the Journal of Media Geography. In submission.

2009. “Rethinking Maps and Identity. Choropleths, Clines and Biopolitics.” In Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin and Chris Perkins (Eds.), Rethinking Maps. New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory. Routledge. (Unofficial but still cool artist's conception of cover.) Published June 15, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-415-46152-8.

2009. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Section Editor: Cartography. 12-Volume set, $3,400! Edited by Nigel Thrift and Rob Kitchin. Elsevier. Responsible for 74 entries on cartography. Publication date: summer 2009. ISBN: 0080449115.

2009. “Cartography--A Field in Tension?” Editorial. Cartographica 44(1), pp. 1-3. DOI: 10.3138/carto.44.1.1.

2009. “Maps 2.0.” Progress in Human Geography,33(1), pp. 91-100. DOI: 10.1177/0309132508094074.

2008. “Keyhole, Google and 3D Worlds: An Interview with Avi Bar-Zeev.” Cartographica, 43(2), 85-93. DOI: 10.3138/carto.43.2.85

2008. “Will Peasants Map? Hyperlinks, Map Mashups and the Future of Information.” In The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in a Digital Age. Edited by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, University of Michigan Press.

2008. “The Role of Geosurveillance and Security in the Politics of Fear.” Chapter 14 in Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: Research Frontiers and Challenges. Edited by Daniel Z. Sui, Springer-Verlag, pp. 283-300. ISBN: 978-1-4020-8339-6. DOI: 10:1007/978-1-4020-8507-9.
This book is also available online.

2007. “The Biopolitical Justification for Geosurveillance.” Geographical Review, 97(3), 389-403.

Photo accompanying the article is of Eastern State Penitentiary (October 2006)

2007. Space, Knowledge, and Power: Foucault and Geography. Ashgate Publications, UK & USA. Co-edited with Stuart Elden. Paperback £22.50. ISBN: 754646556. 300 pages. In stores January 2007. Flyer.

Full contents list.

2007. “Introduction. Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography.” Introductory Chapter of Space, Knowledge and Power.

2007. “Maps, Race and Foucault: Eugenics and Territorialization Following World War I” Chapter in Space, Knowledge, and Power.

Reviewed in Choice, the influential journal of the American Library Association: “The work of French philosopher Foucault is here excavated, translated, interpreted, assessed, and applied. During his life, Foucault indulged critical thinking concerning, especially, social institutions, power, and knowledge. This is apparently the first book to negotiate Foucault’s questions placed before the French geography journal Hérodote in the 1970s. The work’s first section relates essentially to Foucault’s writings on space, accompanied by selected Francophone responses (1977) and Anglophone responses (2006). The remainder of the book consists of essays developing context for Foucault’s work, translations of several of his essays, and further extension of his work in the shape of nondisciplinary but critical and discursive inquiry. This is a thoughtful and imaginative undertaking, replete with utile index. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” — G. J. Martin, emeritus, Southern Connecticut State University

Reviewed in Foucault Studies (December 2007): “It seems peculiar that a collection of essays on Foucault and space has not appeared in Foucault studies until now. As the editors of Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography note, matters of space permeate much of Foucault's works. This is not your typical edited collection, however. While other edited collections have contextually sanitized his works, the editors of this collection highlight the exchange between Foucault and the editors of Herodote to ground a reconsideration of Foucault's questions about space and geography. They seek to examine the ways that geographers use Foucault's ideas, and to ignite and continue a scholarly discussion about how to use Foucault's notions of space in the present moment. At the risk of sounding hackneyed, they provide scholars with a multi-faceted toolbox, one that reveals Foucault's thinking at this time in his life and presents translations of essays written by Foucault and French scholars that were previously unavailable to English audiences, in an array of essays on how to apply Foucault.”

Reviewed in borderlands e-journal (2008): “This book is an important contribution to the study of the work of Foucault and of its reception in the field of human and political geography.” — M. Maidan

2006. “An Introduction to Critical Cartography.” Co-authored with John Krygier. ACME Journal 4(1), pp. 11-33.

2006. Geospatial Matters: Exploring the Implications of a Digital Earth edited by Dan Sui and Matt Ball features a dozen or so of my columns for GeoWorld. June 2006.

Order Form & Table of Contents

2007. “The Ethics of GIS Remain Uncertain” GeoWorld, Oct. 2007, p. 20.
2007. “The Surveillance Society: Returning the Gaze” GeoWorld, Aug. 2007.
2007. “Making Judgments under Uncertainty” GeoWorld, Apr. 2007.
2007. “Surveillance Now Relies on GIS” GeoWorld, Jan. 2007.

2006. “Online Mapping Attempts to Increase Voter Participation” GeoWorld Oct. 2006, pp. 18-19.
2006. “Perils and Pleasures of Using Census Data” GeoWorld Aug. 2006.
2006. “Should we Collect Race-Based Data?” GeoWorld, Apr. 2006.
2006. “Map Hacks, Mashups and the Geo-Web” GeoWorld, Jan. 2006.

2005. “Does a Conspiracy of Silence Aid Map Theft?” GeoWorld, Oct. 2005.
2005. “GIS and Public Health: Are We There Yet?” GeoWorld, Jul. 2005.
2005. “Do We Need a GIS Certificate?” GeoWorld, Apr. 2005.
Two letters to the editor of GeoWorld replying to my April column
2005. “Examining the Art of Mapping” GeoWorld, Jan. 2005.
2004. “Knowing the Past Can Provide Focus for the Future” GeoWorld, Oct. 2004.
2004. “GIS Needs to be Part of the Solution.” GeoWorld, Jul. 2004, p. 22.
2004. “Rethinking GIS and (Homeland) Security.” GeoWorld, Apr. 2004, p. 22.
2004. “Have We Seen One Hundred Years of GIS?” GeoWorld, Jan. 2004, p.24.

Reviewed in Annals of the Association of American Geographers March 2006, by Dan Sui: “Crampton argues early in the book that the political is always spatial, and the spatial has been increasingly mediated by cyberspace. Since mapping is necessarily part of our engagement with space, it should therefore be part of our political concerns...I particularly applaud the author’s emphasis on the tightening links between the virtual and physical world. His discussion on authenticity is also brilliant and will deepen our understanding of the rampant issues related to identity theft. To those believing in the pursuit of the technological sublime, this book is a further potent reminder that no new technology will solve some problems without creating new ones. It is always refreshing to have a healthy dose of problematics on technological innovations.”

The American Library Association says: “Crampton (anthropology and geography, Georgia State Univ.) presents a philosophical treatise on the social geography of cyberspace, aptly applying the ideas of Foucault and Heidegger, in particular, to the Internet. The author's underlying premise is that maps are not objective confessors of truth, but rather the products of a social world laden with politics in the forms of power, resistance, identity, and community. This notion is extended to the realm of cyberspace. Crampton offers some very interesting insights into cartography and mapping along the way, particularly the underlying agendas of maps and how maps have become less static with the proliferation of mapping software. Another especially strong point is Crampton's discussion of the digital divide in the US as well as globally. At times, the book seems to get lost in detailing the historical and philosophical foundations of the geography of cyberspace, falling short on analyzing the Internet itself. Although the title and introduction may lead readers to expect a more detailed account of the Internet, the book is much more philosophical than empirical. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper level undergraduate and above.”

Reviewed in First Monday: “The great virtue of The Political Mapping of Cyberspace is Crampton’s success in adapting pre–existing frames for productive thought and conversation around crime mapping and other activities that produce a significant portion of cyberspace. From Foucault, Crampton adopts a method, problematization, applied to his object, the spatial politics of cyberspace...The Political Mapping of Cyberspace is of real and enduring value in thinking about which questions need to be asked and what approaches are useful in demystifying the "silver bullet" spin found in uncritical GIS/GPS promotion. ”

Reviewed in the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGACT News Book Review 2007, Vol. 38(3): “an illuminating, innovative and philosophical study of the spatial politics of cyberspace.”

2008. Symposium on Mapping, Counter-Cartographies Collective, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Sept. 5. I will be speaking at the department of Geography's Colloquium, along with John Krygier and Denis Wood.

Die Ziet news story (pdf with all illustrations) and here (pdf with selected illustrations at Die Zeit).

2007. "Maps, Race and Foucault" Symposium on "Geopolitics" Cambridge University, UK. January 12, 2007.

2006. IBG/RGS Annual Conference. August 29-Spet. 1, 2006. Royal Geographical Society, London. Special session on "Rethinking Maps."

2006. GIS and Population Science, workshop at UC Santa Barbara. July 10-22 2006.

2006. Can Mapmakers Change the World? The Hyperlinked Society. Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. June 9, 2006.

2006. “The Biopolitics of Geosurveillance and Security.” Who Owns Knowledge? Symposium, GMU April 18, 2006.

2006. "Surveillance, Security and Personal Dangerousness." AAAS Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO., 16th Feb. - 20 Feb.

2005. April Invited lecture at West Virginia University, WV. “Racialized mapping of World War I”
2005. AAG 2005 session on American Geography and Global Geopolitics: Early Twentieth Century Origins, organized by Mike Heffernan and myself, April 2005, Denver, CO. Also a panelist on a session on Heterodox GIS organized by Kevin St. Martin (Rutgers).
2004. Invited Lecture at Middlebury College, VT. “The Americans in Paris: The Story of Power, Geopolitics and Territory at the Versailles Peace Conference, 1919”. April 16, 2004.
2004. AAG 2004 sessions on Place, Space and Calculation, organized by Stuart Elden (Durham) and myself. March 14–19, Philadelphia, PA. Association of American Geographers (AAG) 100th Annual Conference. Abstracts are online here.
2004. Georgia Tech Institute for Geographic Information Systems Symposium on “GIS in Teaching and Research”. February 9/10, Atlanta, GA. “GIS at GSU: From Cabbagetown to the Digital Divide”.
2002. July, Santa Barbara, Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS). “The Social Construction of Maps” [streaming video, Macromedia Flash Player required].