Scholars Award: Map Wars: The History and Sociology of Mapping Practices in Israel and the Palestinian Territories

学者奖：地图战争：以色列和巴勒斯坦领土测绘实践的历史和社会学

• 批准号: 1152322
• 负责人: Christine Leuenberger
• 金额: $ 15.12万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1152322&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholars; Award; Map; Wars; History

IntroductionThis project explores the interlinkages between science, politics and state-making. The focus is on how the geographical sciences become entangled with politics, territorial claim making, and nation-state building in Israel and the Palestinian Territories since 1948 until today. Qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviewing, ethnography, and archival and library research will be used.Intellectual MeritsThis project investigates: how geography, cartography and mapping practices have become entwined with the building of nation-states; how social, institutional, and political contexts shape map-making; how various actors, institutions, and governments use maps to shape territorial visions; and how maps relate to material structures (such as the West Bank Barrier). The project also aims to develop a systematic and comprehensive methodology to analyze how social and political concerns become embedded in the visual rhetoric of maps. Potential Broader ImpactsNew mapping technologies and software greatly enable user-defined mapping practices. As a result, various social groups increasingly disseminate alternative mappings. In such an environment it is especially pertinent to focus scholarly attention on developing conceptual tools for understanding the rhetoric of mapping practices. The Israeli-Palestinian dispute over mapping provides a rich context for theorizing about alternative mapping practices so as to emphasize the importance of constructing integrative maps that recover diverse geopolitical visions. A careful analyses of how and why different adversarial groups map the same territory differently may serve as a resource for reconciliation; it will contribute to a better understanding of the historical and political genealogy of such diverging practices and provide insight into the social-ethnic histories of diverse populations in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and in other suitably similar contexts.

介绍这个项目探讨了科学，政治和国家建立之间的互相联系。重点是地理科学如何纠缠于政治，领土主张以及以色列和巴勒斯坦领土的民族国家建设，直到今天为止。将使用诸如深入访谈，民族志，档案和图书馆研究之类的定性研究方法。智能优点研究研究：地理，制图和映射实践如何与民族国家的建设纠缠在一起；社会，制度和政治背景如何塑造制图；各种演员，机构和政府如何使用地图来塑造领土构想；以及地图与物质结构（例如西岸屏障）的关系。该项目还旨在开发一种系统，全面的方法，以分析社会和政治问题如何嵌入地图的视觉言论中。潜在的更广泛的影响新映射技术和软件极大地促进了用户定义的映射实践。结果，各种社会群体越来越多地传播替代映射。在这样的环境中，特别有必要将学术关注集中在开发理解映射实践的言论的概念工具上。以色列 - 巴勒斯坦关于映射的争端为替代映射实践的理论化提供了丰富的背景，以强调构建综合地图的重要性，以恢复各种地缘政治愿景。仔细分析了如何以及为什么不同的对抗群体映射相同的区域可能会作为和解的资源；它将有助于更好地理解这种不同的实践的历史和政治家谱，并洞悉以色列和巴勒斯坦领土的各种人口的社会种族历史，以及其他适当的类似情况。