Nel 1729 il cartografo, meteorologo e astronomo olandese Nicolaas Kruik incide una mappa che rappresenterà un caposaldo per ogni successiva descrizione del territorio.
In recent years the issue of space has returned to arouse the interest of those who study international politics from various disciplinary perspectives. If during bipolarity there was little interest in spatiality, both because its dual scheme was highly evident and because
the two ideologies of reference explained the reality according to factors which were substantially indifferent to space (the class struggle and popular democracy on the one hand and market laws and liberal democracy on the other), the end of the Cold War has made it
La rappresentazione cartografica ha negli ultimi anni attratto attenzioni crescenti e diversificate che vanno inquadrate nel rinnovato interesse che le scienze sociali hanno rivolto alla spazialità e alla visualità. I geografi sono stati, ovviamente, tra i protagonisti di questa profonda operazione di revisione epistemologica. Nel ripensarne i fondamenti sono stati guidati, in particolare, dalla felice collocazione della carta all’incrocio strategico tra il piano della realtà geografica e quello dell’immaginario spaziale.
In opposition to the classical assumption that would see maps as neutral and objective products, deconstructionist critique has long explained their ideological and instrumental nature. This decisive intellectual reorientation of the conception of the map has clearly shown that maps conceal within a power of persuasion and that they have served discourses of power. But the deepening of the relationship between maps, authority and scholars via this approach has granted prominence to the first two elements, leaving the third in a distinctly subordinate position.
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