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

领土的制图效果图往往将地方固定在空间中，从而消除了跨越边界的人与人之间的实际互动。 在国家或领土斗争的地区尤其如此，在这些地区，一个群体在官方地图上可能比另一个群体更不显眼。 该项目将调查巴勒斯坦是如何以地图的方式构建的，以及地图是如何在解决以色列/巴勒斯坦僵局的过程中被使用和滥用的。 通过理论上的批判性制图，空间生产和地缘政治学的研究，并通过使用档案，民族志方法与话语分析的整合，该项目将重建巴勒斯坦从19世纪世纪到现在的制图谱系，并将考虑巴勒斯坦如何成为有界的，以及它的形式如何随着时间的推移而变化。 该项目还将分析官方实体创建的地图如何被用于为当今巴勒斯坦运动采取的政治战略提供信息。该项目的另一个组成部分考虑了巴勒斯坦人在当今日常生活中的空间做法，以及这些“地图”与巴勒斯坦空间的官方边界如何对应或不同，该项目将通过考虑不同群体在地图上的描绘方式，帮助纠正对该地区和冲突的深刻误解。这将产生政策影响。该项目除了促进一名研究生的学术发展外，还将向巴勒斯坦研究员所在机构以及希伯来大学、伯利恒大学和比尔宰特大学的大学生提供关于巴勒斯坦/以色列冲突的制图方面的教材。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进行传播。

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.