Imagine waking up one morning to discover that a tiny reef in the middle of the ocean has suddenly become part of a nation’s ...

Every explorer, beginning with Marco Polo, has been obsessed by these powerful depictions of alluring and unknown territories ... maps. Bland—who would become known as the Al Capone of ...

maps are and are not the territory. They are not ... and challenging the notion of an ethnic center altogether – a concept often inherent in cartography. Iizuka declares that human beings do not ...