What was, is, and might be: Cartography on Arctic Shores

过去、现在和可能是什么：北极海岸的制图

• 批准号: 2885198
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2885198
• 关键词: What; was; might; Cartography; Arctic

At the mouth of one of Canada's largest watersheds, past the Arctic Circle, another late summer storm churns swelling waves from murky waters. Relentlessly, the shoreline is battered and hundreds of meters of permafrost slump into a warming sea. The climate crisis is being felt deeply in the MacKenzie Delta and intense attention - scientific, political, and otherwise - can be witnessed in the communities there. The pingos and tundra crawl with all manner of scientists and researchers, busily measuring, mapping, and documenting a landscape that is quite literally washing away. How do scientists armed with seismometers and drones, indigenous elders, and traditional knowledge holders, (re)construct the world both descriptively and culturally, both past and future? Cartography is necessarily representative, and the process of making a map is laden with the complications that entails. Each mapmaker carries with them, intentionally or not, their biases and assumptions. These then become the representations used in a myriad of ways, shaping policy, opinions, and conceptions of a place many who consume the map will never visit. This project, in the aim of better conceptualizing the power of cartography and its relation to place, will have as its mission the investigation of each of these layers of meaning. Working with contacts developed during my Master's research in the Northwest Territories, this project will be conducted through the exploration of the (re)mapping of this region of the Arctic and the consequences of such intensely localized cartographic inquiry. To do so, I will connect with a long term permafrost mapping project in the area surrounding Tuktoyaktuk. Building off these contacts, I will integrate myself with different experts mapping and measuring the region, as well as the locals who often assist them and map the land in their own ways. The intention is to begin this project with those who take the creation of cartographic objects the most scientifically, and to move outwards towards those who engage in more mundane processes of map-making. Through the dual lenses of participant observation and documentary photography, I will "study-up" to reverse the assumed value of scientifically sanctioned accounts (Nader, 1972). Without valuing one cartographic epistemology over another, exploring how multiple representations of a specific place are created will provide valuable insight into the reductive and creative elements of maps as well as the unique consequences of different epistemologies.

在加拿大最大的流域之一的河口，经过北极圈，另一场夏末的风暴从浑浊的沃茨中搅动出膨胀的波浪。无情地，海岸线被破坏，数百米的永久冻土陷入温暖的海洋。气候危机在麦肯齐三角洲被深深地感受到，在那里的社区可以看到科学、政治和其他方面的强烈关注。冰丘和苔原上爬满了各种各样的科学家和研究人员，他们忙着测量、绘制地图和记录一个实际上正在被冲走的景观。拥有地震仪和无人机的科学家、土著长老和传统知识持有者如何在过去和未来以创造性和文化性的方式（重新）构建世界？制图必然具有代表性，而绘制地图的过程充满了复杂性。每一个地图绘制者都有意无意地带着他们的偏见和假设。然后，这些地图就变成了以各种方式使用的表示，形成了一个许多消费地图的人永远不会访问的地方的政策，意见和概念。这个项目的目的是更好地概念化制图的力量及其与地点的关系，它的使命是调查每一层意义。与我的硕士在西北地区研究期间开发的联系人合作，该项目将通过探索北极这一地区的（重新）绘图以及这种强烈的本地化制图调查的后果来进行。为此，我将与Tuktoyaktuk周围地区的长期冻土测绘项目联系起来。在这些联系的基础上，我将与不同的专家一起绘制和测量该地区，以及经常帮助他们并以自己的方式绘制土地的当地人。其目的是开始这个项目与那些谁采取的创造制图对象最科学的，并向那些谁从事更世俗的地图制作过程向外移动。通过参与者观察和纪实摄影的双重镜头，我将“研究”，以扭转科学认可的帐户（纳德，1972）的假设值。在不将一种制图认识论置于另一种之上的情况下，探索如何创建特定地点的多种表示将为地图的还原和创造性元素以及不同认识论的独特后果提供有价值的见解。