Contours of a ‘Post-Critical’ Cartography—A Contribution to the Dissemination of Sociological Cartographic Research

Abstract Since the 1980s, ‘critical cartography’ has been developing. Its merits lie in its awareness of socially constructed nature cartographic representations, power relations involved, and process-bound practices. The ‘post-critical’ cartography proposed here takes up these but does so without following categorical rejection positivist ‘traditional’ or moral demarcation what can cannot be represented as well subordination theories to ‘critical’ paradigm. Instead, approach relies on struggle for suitable theoretical frameworks—the normative reference horizon within endeavor is enhancement life chances. In this respect, prefix ‘post’ refers not only a temporal ‘after’, also perpetuation central concerns cartography, simultaneously freeing it from such limitations.