Semantic ruminations on \u2018post-representational cartography\u2019

\u2018Post-representational cartography\u2019 is a term currently used to describe an emerging shift within map theorization. Yet some misunderstanding, confusion and ambiguity may arise when trying to grasp the meaning of the phrase \u2018post-representational\u2019 in recent literature. This conceptual article discusses varieties of \u2018post-representational cartography\u2019 and seeks to contribute to some semantic clarification by comparing these different, similar or distant conceptions with the broader, well-established debate on the \u2018post-/more-than-/non-representational\u2019 within cultural geography. The paper also briefly hints about possible further developments on a more extreme \u2018non-representational cartography\u2019. \u2018Map studies\u2019 belong to an emerging, highly heterogeneous and transdisciplinary arena. Thus, reflections on words and phraseologies which are glowingly circulated among scholars of different backgrounds appear to be of some aid in gaining a deeper awareness of the terminological ambiguity that every interdisciplinary practice inevitably has to face