2017
DOI: 10.3138/cart.52.4.3885
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A Narrative Cartography of the French Indo-China War: A Journalistic Perspective

Abstract: While cartography continues to be a major form of geographic study, an important line of cartographic research has moved away from the “scientific” framework of cartographic inquiry, and instead studies the narratives and social construction of maps. This article seeks to understand the visual representation of the French Indo-China War using journalistic maps from the New York Times. In doing so, it hopes to reconstruct how the policies and events of this conflict were visually represented to the American pub… Show more

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“…Moreover, as Vujaković (1999) observes, cartographic news may well provide a new discursive opportunity, for example, the post–Cold War European landscape. News mapping can serve as a symbolic battleground for different stakeholders, as Daley (1999) shows via research on news cartography after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and as Cromley (2017) documents through a study of The New York Times ’ maps of the French Indo-China War that articulate a Western narrative of dominance.…”
Section: News Cartography and Knowledgementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, as Vujaković (1999) observes, cartographic news may well provide a new discursive opportunity, for example, the post–Cold War European landscape. News mapping can serve as a symbolic battleground for different stakeholders, as Daley (1999) shows via research on news cartography after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and as Cromley (2017) documents through a study of The New York Times ’ maps of the French Indo-China War that articulate a Western narrative of dominance.…”
Section: News Cartography and Knowledgementioning
confidence: 99%