Scholars Award: Map Wars: The History and Sociology of Mapping Practices in Israel and the Palestinian Territories

这个项目探讨了科学、政治和国家决策之间的相互联系。重点是从1948年到今天，地理科学如何与以色列和巴勒斯坦领土上的政治、领土主张和民族国家建设纠缠在一起。本项目将使用深度访谈、民族志和档案和图书馆研究等定性研究方法。本项目调查：地理、制图和绘图实践如何与民族国家的建设交织在一起；社会、制度和政治背景如何塑造地图绘制；不同行为者、机构和政府如何使用地图塑造领土景观；以及地图与物质结构(如约旦河西岸屏障)的关系。该项目还旨在开发一种系统和全面的方法，以分析社会和政治关切如何融入地图的视觉修辞。潜在的更广泛的影响新的地图技术和软件极大地支持了用户定义的地图做法。因此，各种社会团体越来越多地传播替代地图。在这种环境下，特别有必要把学术注意力集中在开发概念工具上，以便理解测绘实践的修辞。以色列和巴勒斯坦关于测绘的争端为建立替代测绘做法的理论提供了丰富的背景，以强调构建能够恢复不同地缘政治远景的综合地图的重要性。仔细分析不同敌对集团如何以及为什么以不同方式绘制同一领土，可作为和解的资源；这将有助于更好地了解这种不同做法的历史和政治谱系，并有助于洞察以色列和巴勒斯坦领土以及其他适当类似情况下不同人口的社会族裔历史。

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.