Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Political Mapping of Palestine: Open Spaces, Open Futures Beyond the Israel-Palestinian Impasse

博士论文研究：巴勒斯坦的政治版图：以色列-巴勒斯坦僵局之外的开放空间、开放未来

• 批准号: 1103185
• 负责人: Altha Cravey
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1103185&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Mapping

Cartographic renderings of territories often bound places and fix then in space, thereby erasing the actual interactions between people across boundaries. This is particularly so in regions of national or territorial struggle wherein one group may be rendered less visible than another on official maps. This project will investigate the ways in which Palestine has been constructed cartographically and how maps have been used and misused in working toward a resolution of the Israeli/ Palestinian impasse. By theoretically grounding the research in critical cartography, the production of space, and geopolitics, and through the use of an integration of archival, ethnographic methods with discourse analysis, the project will reconstruct the cartographic genealogy of Palestine from the 19th century to the present, and will consider how Palestine has become bounded and how its form has changed over time. The project will also analyze how maps created by official entities have been used to inform political strategies adopted by the Palestinian movement today. Another component in the project considers the spatial practices of Palestinians in present-day everyday life and how these 'maps' correspond or differ from the official bounding of Palestinian space.This project will contribute to remedying deep misunderstandings about the region and conflict by considering the ways different groups have been portrayed cartographically. This will have policy implications. In addition to this project contributing to the scholarly development of a graduate student, it will provide educational materials about the cartographic dimensions of the Palestinian/ Israeli conflict to university students at the PIs' home institution as well as Hebrew, Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities. Results from the project will be disseminated through a book and lectures, as well as through visual media including maps and a visually rich multi-lingual website.

领土的地图绘制通常会限制地点并固定在空间中，从而消除了人们之间跨越边界的实际互动。 在国家或领土斗争的地区尤其如此，其中一个群体在官方地图上可能比另一个群体更不明显。 该项目将调查巴勒斯坦地图的构建方式以及地图在解决以色列/巴勒斯坦僵局过程中如何被使用和滥用。 通过在理论上建立批判制图学、空间生产和地缘政治学的研究基础，并通过将档案、民族志方法与话语分析相结合，该项目将重建巴勒斯坦从 19 世纪至今的制图谱系，并将考虑巴勒斯坦如何成为边界以及其形式如何随着时间的推移而变化。 该项目还将分析官方实体创建的地图如何被用来为巴勒斯坦运动今天采取的政治战略提供信息。该项目的另一个组成部分考虑了巴勒斯坦人在当今日常生活中的空间实践，以及这些“地图”与巴勒斯坦空间的官方边界如何对应或不同。该项目将通过考虑不同群体在地图上的描绘方式。这将产生政策影响。该项目除了有助于研究生的学术发展外，还将向 PI 所在机构以及希伯来大学、伯利恒大学和比尔宰特大学的大学生提供有关巴勒斯坦/以色列冲突的制图方面的教育材料。该项目的成果将通过书籍和讲座以及视觉媒体（包括地图和视觉丰富的多语言网站）进行传播。