cartography

From French cartographie, from carte (“map”) (ultimately from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “map”)) + -graphie (“-graphy”) (, from γράφω (gráphō, “write”)); carto- +‎ -graphy.

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɐː(ɹ)ˈtɔɡɹəfɪi̯/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kɐɹˈtɒɡɹəfi/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kɐː(ɹ)ˈtɔɡɹɘfɪi̯/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɑːˈtɒɡɹəfi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑɹˈtɑɡɹəfi/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

cartography (usually uncountable, plural cartographies)

1. (uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography. [from 19th c.]
2. (countable, figuratively) An illustrative discussion of a topic. [from 20th c.]
   • 2000, Stanislav Grof, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research, →ISBN:

     In the early years of my psychedelic research, I sketched a vastly expanded cartography of the psyche that seems to meet this challenge.

   • 2006, Nira Yuval-Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran, Ulrike Vieten, The Situated Politics of Belonging, →ISBN, page 69:

     The Dalit feminist standpoint, and more specifically the national Federation of Dalit Women, provide in very clear terms a cartography of governance that forces an official reckoning of a new way of seeing.

   • 2013, Michael Goddard, The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies, →ISBN, page 1:

     Since this cartography is not a representation of already existing spaces or cinematic forms but is rather oriented towards the new, it could be described as a cartography of the virtual; however, since Ruiz's work makes a point of departing from the normative rules of cinematic construction as a first principle, this book will outline Ruiz's cartography of images as a cartography of the impossible.

   • 2014, Anna Maria Guasch Ferrer, Nasheli Jimenez Del Val, Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age, →ISBN, page xvi:

     In short, the volume aims to provide the reader with the coordinates for current debates in global art and to develop a cartography of the various conceptual and methodological intersections that global art studies is addressing today.

• mapmaking
• cartology

• cartographer
• cartographic, cartographical
• counter-cartography