Mapping Sovereignty

这一学院奖学金将允许罗格斯大学的Yarimar Bonilla博士作为W.E.B.Dubois非洲和非裔美国人研究所历史设计工作室的教员在哈佛大学居住一个学期，在那里她还可以参与定量社会科学研究所和地理分析中心的活动。这次培训将使Bonilla博士能够发展定量研究、地理空间分析和数据可视化方面的技能，以便开发一个新的长期研究项目，目标如下：(1)在定量和定性研究的基础上制定一系列主权指标，使我们能够以更复杂和更复杂的方式对主权进行概念化；(2)收集不同社会的这些指标的信息，以创建主权关系的替代档案；(3)试验新的数据可视化模式，更好地将主权表现为部分、波动和有争议的。这些可视化将与当前通过假定主权国家的固定边界来代表世界的地图形成对抗。它们还将作为调查主权的性质、模式、谈判以及随着时间的推移而转移的工具。这一项目的结果将对有关国际援助、人道主义和国际援助的公共政策产生潜在影响，因为它为确定政治主权、国家能力和重新评估“善政”目标的现有标准增加了新的层面。

This Faculty Scholar award will allow Dr. Yarimar Bonilla of Rutgers University to spend a semester in residence at Harvard University as a faculty fellow at the History Design Studio at the W.E.B. Dubois Institute of African and African American Research where she can also participate in the activities of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Center for Geographic Analysis. This training will allow Dr. Bonilla to develop skills in quantitative research, geospatial analysis, and data visualization in order to develop a new long-term research project with the following goals: (1) to develop a series of indicators of sovereignty that build on both quantitative and qualitative research that will allow us to conceptualize sovereignty in more complex and sophisticated ways; (2) to gather information on these indicators across different societies in order to create an alternative archive of sovereign relationships; (3) to experiment with new modes of data visualization that will better represent sovereignty as partial, fluctuating, and contested. These visualizations will serve as a counter to current cartographies that represent the world through the fixed boundaries of putatively sovereign nations. They will also serve as tools of inquiry about the nature of sovereignty, its patterns, its negotiations, and its shifts over time. The results of this project will have potential implications for public policy regarding international assistance, humanitarianism, and international aid by adding new dimensions to existing criteria for determining measures of political sovereignty, state capacity, and a re-evaluation of the goals of "good governance."