EXERCISE CMS 3–2 Integrating sources in Chicago (CMS) papers

EXERCISE CMS 3–2Integrating sources in Chicago (CMS) papers

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Maps, see, are a huge part of geography’s ongoing identity crisis today. As late as the end of the eighteenth century, geography and cartography were synonymous—interchangeable words for the same science. The world was still being charted and explored, and geographers were the ones drawing the maps. But then geography began to grow into a holistic scholarly discipline, and a funny thing happened on the way to the symposium: it lost maps as its center.

This happened for many reasons. Most obviously, the world got pretty thoroughly mapped; making maps wasn’t at the brave frontier of anything anymore. As a result, geographers began to see cartographers as mere technicians, not scientists or scholars. Second, once digital tools like geographic information systems, or GIS, began to be used to manage spatial data, focusing on maps felt old-fashioned. Finally, there’s been an academic trend toward emphasizing the unreliability of maps: their cultural baggage, their selectivity, the agendas that drive them. “All maps distort reality” is the moral of Mark Monmonier’s 1991 classic How to Lie with Maps. They’re artifacts to be deconstructed, like literary texts. It’s not fashionable to see them as the authoritative bedrock of a science anymore.

From Jennings, Ken. Maphead. New York: Scribner, 2011.

[The source passage is from page 47.]

Excerpt from Ken Jennings, Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks. New York: Scribner, 2011. Reprinted by permission.

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EXERCISE CMS 3–2 Integrating sources in Chicago (CMS) papers - 1 of 5: Jennings explains the distinction between geography and cartography, which were once “the same science”; in the nineteenth century, geography became “scholarly” and lost its focus on maps, and “geographers began to see cartographers as mere technicians.”1

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EXERCISE CMS 3–2 Integrating sources in Chicago (CMS) papers - 2 of 5: Because the world has been nearly completely charted, Jennings notes, drawing maps is not at the forefront of any discipline anymore.2

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EXERCISE CMS 3–2 Integrating sources in Chicago (CMS) papers - 3 of 5: Mapmaking has become obsolete because “once digital tools like geographic information systems, or GIS, began to be used to manage spatial data, focusing on maps felt old-fashioned.”3

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EXERCISE CMS 3–2 Integrating sources in Chicago (CMS) papers - 4 of 5: Jennings argues that maps are unreliable because “all maps distort reality.”4

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EXERCISE CMS 3–2 Integrating sources in Chicago (CMS) papers - 5 of 5: Jennings lists three reasons that mapmaking has become outdated: the “world [has already been] pretty thoroughly mapped,” digital navigation systems have made maps “old-fashioned,” and the “cultural baggage” associated with maps has made them suspect.5