Desiring maps: an important issue for geographic cartographyThis paper brings a discussion on how cartographic images disseminated in social life produce worlds and captures us for them or, in others words, they desire us. Four scenes from the author's daily-life situations were used. In all of scenes, maps were present. The meaning of the cartographic production in these specific contexts, as well as their strength in the creation of an image of the world - in the production of a world - was studied. The consequences of this reflection in Geography, including geography teaching, were discussed, considering that this is an important issue for geographic cartography.
geographic cartography; cartographic image; thinking about space
