Decolonizing the Map : Cartography from Colony to Nation / James R. Akerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akerman, James R., editor.

Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, associated with work.

Series:

Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.

The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--Political aspects.

Decolonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Almost universally, newly independent states seek to affirm their independence and identity by making the production of new maps and atlases a top priority. For formerly colonized peoples, however, this process neither begins nor ends with independence, and it is rarely straightforward. Mapping their own land is fraught with a fresh set of issues: how to define and administer their territories, develop their national identity, establish their role in the community of nations, and more. The contributors to Decolonizing the Map explore this complicated relationship between mapping and decolonization while engaging with recent theoretical debates about the nature of decolonization itself. These essays, originally delivered as the 2010 Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, encompass more than two centuries and three continents-Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Ranging from the late eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth, contributors study topics from mapping and national identity in late colonial Mexico to the enduring complications created by the partition of British India and the racialized organization of space in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. A vital contribution to studies of both colonization and cartography, Decolonizing the Map is the first book to systematically and comprehensively examine the engagement of mapping in the long-and clearly unfinished-parallel processes of decolonization and nation building in the modern world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE. Cartography and Decolonization / Craib, Raymond B.

CHAPTER TWO. Entangled Spaces: Mapping Multiple Identities in Eighteenth- Century New Spain / Carrera, Magali

CHAPTER THREE. Cartography in the Production (and Silencing) of Colombian Independence History, 1807- 1827 / Castillo, Lina del

CHAPTER FOUR. Democratizing the Map: The Geo- body and National Cartography in Guatemala, 1821- 2010 / Dym, Jordana

CHAPTER FIVE. Uncovering the Roles of African Surveyors and Draftsmen in Mapping the Gold Coast, 1874-1957 / McGowan, Jamie

CHAPTER SIX. Multiscalar Nations: Cartography and Countercartography of the Egyptian Nation- State / Culcasi, Karen

CHAPTER SEVEN. Art on the Line: Cartography and Creativity in a Divided World / Ramaswamy, Sumathi

CHAPTER EIGHT. Signs of the Times: Commercial Road Mapping and National Identity in South Africa / Bassett, Thomas J.

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Published in association with the Hermon Dunlap Smith center for the History of Cartography, the Newberry Library.

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

OCLC:

988326331