Remapping the Globe in an Imperial Century: Investigating the Textual Cartographies of Simon Bolivar, Domingo Sarmiento, and Jose Marti

作为对思想史的贡献，该项目最好的特点是两个相关的部分：(1)阐述全球思想史子领域的一种新方法——我称之为“文本制图”（Textual Cartography）；(2)将这种方法应用于19世纪拉丁美洲政治思想的三位人物：西蒙·玻利瓦尔（Simon Bolivar, 1783-1830）、多明戈·萨米恩托（Domingo samiento, 1811-88）和何塞·马蒂（Jose Marti, 1853-95）。这三位学者之所以被选中，是因为他们拥有共同的权威地位，他们在思想上与帝国权力以及西属美洲在由帝国统治的世界中的地位有着共同的联系。我相信，后一种应用练习将更新我们对这些演员用他们的写作所做的事情的理解，这反过来又将说明文本地图学作为一种新的解释实践形式的价值。文本地图学是一种专注于思想历史档案中的概念被政治思想家用作“制图设备”的方法，用它来将政治文化意义的空间刻入他们对全球的话语结构中。具体地说，这意味着当概念被用作地球表面空间分类的图式时（通常是规范性的）。这种方法的潜在效用是广泛的。它的重点表明，在题材上没有直接的限制。因此，超越思想史和更广泛的人文学科的学科领域不能被排除在文本地图学的范围之外。玻利瓦尔、萨米恩托和马蒂为文本地图学的有效论证做出了很好的战略选择。作为拉丁美洲政治思想史上的典型人物，随着围绕他们的后续阅读的集中，他们是对比展示我的方法中新的解释成果的理想的史学选择。此外，他们中的每一个人都被传统的国家范畴的分析家所框定，但是在这里，用一种从全球思想史发展出来的方法，他们想象的全球性是中心。因此，这个项目也将做重要的、一般性的工作，将拉丁美洲思想史带入我们这个领域初期的“全球转向”的弧线。

As a contribution to Intellectual History, this project is best-characterised as two, related parts: (I) an elaboration of a new method - which I term 'Textual Cartography' - for the Global Intellectual History sub-field and (II) the application of this method to three figures of 19th century Latin American political thought: Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), Domingo Sarmiento (1811-88), and Jose Marti (1853-95). These three have been chosen for their shared canonical status and their common intellectual engagement with imperial power and Spanish America's place in a world dominated by it. The latter exercise in application will, I am confident, renovate our understanding of what these actors were doing with their writing which, in turn, will illustrate the value of Textual Cartography as a new form of interpretive practise. Textual Cartography is an approach focused upon the ways in which the concepts in the archive of Intellectual History have been used by political thinkers as 'cartographic devices' with which to inscribe spaces of politico-cultural significance onto their discursive constructions of the globe. Concretely, this means when concepts have been used as schema for the spatial classification - often normative - of the Earth's surface. The potential utility of this approach is expansive. Its focus suggests no immediate limits on subject matter. As such, the disciplinary terrains beyond Intellectual History and toward the broader Humanities cannot be put out-of-bounds to Textual Cartography. Bolivar, Sarmiento, and Marti make a good strategic choice for the effective demonstration of Textual Cartography. As canonical figures in the history of Latin American political thought, with a subsequent concentration of readings built up around them, they are the ideal historiographical choice for contrastively showing the new interpretive gains in my method. Moreover, each of them has been conventionally framed by analysts within the national category, but here, with a method developed out of Global Intellectual History, the globality of their imaginings is centred. This project will thus also do important, general work in bringing Latin American intellectual history into the arc of the incipient 'Global turn' in our field.