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Towards an Ontogenetic Approach to Soviet Military City Plans: A Post-Representational Epistemology

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A Cartographic Analysis of Soviet Military City Plans

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 This chapter traces the major paradigm shifts which have taken place in cartography since the time of the Soviet mapping programme and, drawing notably on the work of the French post-structuralist Jacques Derrida, attempts to re-frame Soviet maps in a post-representational epistemology which explains the endurance of the maps in contemporary applications while considering the nature of mapping from a broader, conceptual perspective.

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Davis, M. (2021). Towards an Ontogenetic Approach to Soviet Military City Plans: A Post-Representational Epistemology. In: A Cartographic Analysis of Soviet Military City Plans. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84017-4_3

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