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.

本项目探讨科学，政治和国家决策之间的相互联系。重点是地理科学如何与政治，领土主张，以及自1948年以来以色列和巴勒斯坦领土的民族国家建设纠缠在一起。定性的研究方法，如深入访谈，民族志，档案和图书馆的研究将被使用。智力MeritsThis项目调查：地理，制图和制图实践如何成为民族国家的建设，如何社会，制度和政治环境塑造地图制作;如何不同的演员，机构和政府使用地图来塑造领土愿景;以及地图与物质结构（如西岸隔离墙）的关系。该项目还旨在开发一种系统和全面的方法，以分析社会和政治问题如何嵌入地图的视觉修辞中。潜在的更广泛影响新的绘图技术和软件极大地促进了用户定义的绘图实践。因此，各种社会团体越来越多地传播替代映射。在这种环境下，将学术注意力集中在开发概念工具以理解制图实践的修辞上是特别相关的。以色列-巴勒斯坦关于地图绘制的争端为关于替代性地图绘制实践的理论化提供了丰富的背景，以强调构建恢复不同地缘政治愿景的综合地图的重要性。认真分析不同敌对团体如何以及为何以不同方式绘制同一领土地图，可作为和解的一种资源;这将有助于更好地了解这种不同做法的历史和政治谱系，并提供对以色列和巴勒斯坦领土以及其他适当类似背景下不同人口的社会-种族历史的深入了解。