ABSTRACT
This chapter describes what characterizes critical cartography, exploring the theoretical and practical implications of the field, to historicize and situate its practice. It focuses upon the modes, moments and methods in the processes of writing and doing mapping in a critical manner. Like Jeremy Crampton the chapter's aim is to explore the silences – in an analogous fashion to Brian Harley's influential exploration of the silences in mapping in early modern Europe, to reveal some of the forces that influence mapping and critical writing about mapping. The worlds of critical theory move with the times, at once reflecting the wider epistemological and cultural context, but also the practices of cartography and mapping. B. Warf and D. Sui suggest that collaborative mapping encourages a move towards a consensual and performative view of truth claims, instead of the correspondence model dominant in earlier predominant mapping modes.
