Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Luis Lobo-Guerrero is Professor of History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen.
Laura Lo Presti is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Padova.
Filipe dos Reis is Assistant Professor of Geopolitics and Connectivity at the University of Groningen.
This impressive collection of essays offers an important and timely contribution to the study of mapping, empires, and the politics of space, with the novel addition of an explicit focus on connectivity. Particularly useful is the interdisciplinary nature of the volume, given that these issues undoubtedly cross—and bring into question—disciplinary boundaries.
- Jordan Branch, Assistant Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College,
This fascinating follow up to Imaginaries of Connectivity offers an extraordinarily productive focus for further investigation of the problem of connectivity. Focusing on how, by strategically combining disparate elements, various mapping practices contributed to the creation of imperial spaces, Mapping, Connectivity and the Making of European Empires illuminates the role of maps as instruments of power, the complicated relationship between mapping and empire, and how the connectivities that maps depict both reflected European imperial ambitions and provided scaffolding for European imperial rule.
- Sandra Halperin, Professor Emerita, Department of Politics, International Relations, and Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London,
Drawing on a range of cases from the 16th through to the 20th centuries, the contributors remind us that a map is not merely a reflection of power; a map is power. Each chapter reveals how, by constructing the ‘other’ within a system of order, relative difference, connectivity, and circulation, mapping is fundamental to the logic of empire.
- Philip Steinberg, Durham University, Professor of Political Geography at Durham University,
This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations of imaginaries of connectivity.
Rehearsing mapping’s past and its multifarious relations with European imperial orders is not merely an historical exercise to contribute to a global history of cartography. What binds the several interventions is rather an awareness that looking at a particular moment of the past with composite methodologies and interdisciplinary gazes may harbour potential discoveries on the context-embedded relations between mapping, connectivity, and European empire to which we are not yet attuned. By exploring the imaginaries of the world in the mapping of Western modern empires, the book also links to the burgeoning literature on the history of international relations and empire. The emphasis on empires serves here as an important corrigendum for IR’s state centrism and Eurocentrism and contributes to further erode the myth of Westphalia.
Series Editor’s Note
Preface: Poseidonians and the Tragedy of Mapping European Empires, Luis Lobo-Guerrero
1. Mapping and the Making of Imperial European Connectivity, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Laura Lo Presti and Filipe dos Reis
2. Mapping the Invention of the Early ‘Spanish’ Empire, Luis Lobo-Guerrero
3. Freezing Cartographic Imaginaries, Jeppe Strandsbjerg
4. Surveying in British North America: A Homology of Property and Territory, Kerry Goettlich
5. Empires of Science, Science of Empires: Mapping, Centres of Calculation and the Making of Imperial Spaces in Nineteenth Century Germany, Filipe dos Reis
6. Representing France’s Syrian “Colony Without a Flag”: Imperial Cartographic Strategies at the Margin of the Peace Conference, Louis Le Douarin
7. The Cartographic Lives of the Italian Fascist Empire, Laura Lo Presti
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Global Epistemics is a transdisciplinary book series established in partnership with the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) based at the University of Cambridge, that aims to foster, promote, and disseminate empirically grounded and theoretically ambitious research on knowledge as a cultural and natural phenomenon. The series invites individual and collaborative works that efficiently transgress contemporary disciplinary boundaries across the historical, social, and natural sciences, to fruitfully advance our understanding of the nature, history, politics, pragmatics, and normative dimensions of human knowledges – their constitution, co-evolution, diffusion, cultural and material impacts, forms, and uses – as well as their relation to non-human knowledges and to evolving socio-ecological environments. We also invite approaches to animal (human and non-human) cognition that can redefine classical philosophical questions on knowledge and knowing, or delineate new areas and horizons for philosophical and ethical inquiry, on the basis of advanced empirical research and new research methodologies.Grounded in an anthropologically holistic understanding of knowledge that encompasses its ideational, artistic, institutional, and material manifestations across history, as well as the full spectrum of historical modes of practical and intellectual validation (from ‘prehistorical’ to ‘modern’ paradigms, practices, and technologies and from ‘ancient’ to ‘modern’ science), the series also approaches globality simultaneously as totality, extension, and connectivity. It thus aims to advance naturalist, artisanal, and historical epistemologies beyond classical ontological and temporal divides; to explore the patterns of epistemic emergence, diffusion, and exchange across historical times, geocultural spaces, ecological contexts, and sociopolitical configurations; and to investigate modes of knowing and doing that illuminate human commonalities while making sense of our differences as manifestations of our cultural and behavioural plasticity.The series welcomes empirically grounded and intellectually robust contributions that serve its mission, regardless of their methodologies, conceptual frameworks, levels of analysis, temporal scope, or specific objects of investigation. This includes investigations of contemporaneous natural and cultural structures, processes, actors, and media of epistemic activity, as well as studies inscribed in the longue durée or deep-historical time, or addressing past or present knowledge from a comparative perspective. We are looking for projects that can speak to audiences across academic specialties, whether they aim to initiate new transdisciplinary work, disseminate the results of such research, or develop ambitious syntheses.
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Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Luis Lobo-Guerrero is Professor of History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen.
Laura Lo Presti is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Padova.
Filipe dos Reis is Assistant Professor of Geopolitics and Connectivity at the University of Groningen.