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

领地的地图渲染往往将地点限制在一起，并将其固定在空间中，从而抹去了跨越边界的人之间的实际互动。在国家或领土斗争的地区尤其如此，在官方地图上，一个群体可能比另一个群体更不明显。该项目将调查巴勒斯坦是如何以制图的方式建造的，以及在努力解决以巴僵局的过程中地图是如何被使用和误用的。通过从理论上对批判性地图学、空间生产和地缘政治进行研究，并利用档案、民族志方法和话语分析相结合的方法，该项目将重建巴勒斯坦从19世纪到现在的地图谱系，并将考虑巴勒斯坦是如何成为有边界的以及其形式如何随着时间的推移而变化的。该项目还将分析官方实体绘制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是考虑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有何对应或不同之处。该项目将通过考虑不同群体在地图上的描绘方式，有助于纠正人们对该地区和冲突的深刻误解。这将产生政策影响。除了该项目有助于研究生的学术发展外，它还将向私营部门之家机构以及希伯来语大学、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一本书和讲座以及包括地图在内的视觉媒体和一个视觉丰富的多语种网站传播。

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.