Between Demythologizing and Deconstructing the Map: Shawnadithit's New-found-land and the Alienation of Canada
Understood as the product of an agent of knowledge, the cartographic work of Shawnadithit (the last known Beothuk survivor in Newfoundland) questions a whole set of essential and Eurocentric notions of identity, space and history. Geographically, it displaces the 'new'-ness and emptiness o...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/ww47-6x0n-475q-7231 2023-12-31T10:05:19+01:00 Between Demythologizing and Deconstructing the Map: Shawnadithit's New-found-land and the Alienation of Canada SPARKE, MATTHEW 1995 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ww47-6x0n-475q-7231 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/WW47-6X0N-475Q-7231 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization volume 32, issue 1, page 1-21 ISSN 0317-7173 1911-9925 Earth-Surface Processes journal-article 1995 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/ww47-6x0n-475q-7231 2023-12-01T08:17:56Z Understood as the product of an agent of knowledge, the cartographic work of Shawnadithit (the last known Beothuk survivor in Newfoundland) questions a whole set of essential and Eurocentric notions of identity, space and history. Geographically, it displaces the 'new'-ness and emptiness of the Europeans' Newfoundland. Historically, it disrupts a traditional treatment of native people as at once sacrificial victims and heroic proxies in Canadian national history. And epistemologically, it serves to put into question some of the dominant modes of classifying 'indigenous cartography' within cartographic history. In order for such disruptive effects to be realized, it is necessary to shuttle between demythologizing and deconstructing the map—two modes of analysis that need to be better distinguished in scholarship that addresses maps as technologies of power/knowledge. [Colonial boundaries drawn on maps] provide perhaps the most spectacular illustrations of how an anticipatory geography served to frame colonial territories in the minds of statesmen and territorial speculators back in Europe. Maps were the first step in the appropriation of territory. Such visualizations from a distance became critical in choreographing the colonial expansion of early modern Europe. [However the map as] an instrument of colonial power could be reappropriated by colonized people. —Brian Harley1 [T]he look of surveillance returns as the displacing gaze of the disciplined, [a process in which] the observer becomes the observed and the partial representation rearticulates the whole notion of identity and alienates it from essence. —Homi Bhabha2 Article in Journal/Newspaper Beothuk Newfoundland University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 32 1 1 21 |
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Understood as the product of an agent of knowledge, the cartographic work of Shawnadithit (the last known Beothuk survivor in Newfoundland) questions a whole set of essential and Eurocentric notions of identity, space and history. Geographically, it displaces the 'new'-ness and emptiness of the Europeans' Newfoundland. Historically, it disrupts a traditional treatment of native people as at once sacrificial victims and heroic proxies in Canadian national history. And epistemologically, it serves to put into question some of the dominant modes of classifying 'indigenous cartography' within cartographic history. In order for such disruptive effects to be realized, it is necessary to shuttle between demythologizing and deconstructing the map—two modes of analysis that need to be better distinguished in scholarship that addresses maps as technologies of power/knowledge. [Colonial boundaries drawn on maps] provide perhaps the most spectacular illustrations of how an anticipatory geography served to frame colonial territories in the minds of statesmen and territorial speculators back in Europe. Maps were the first step in the appropriation of territory. Such visualizations from a distance became critical in choreographing the colonial expansion of early modern Europe. [However the map as] an instrument of colonial power could be reappropriated by colonized people. —Brian Harley1 [T]he look of surveillance returns as the displacing gaze of the disciplined, [a process in which] the observer becomes the observed and the partial representation rearticulates the whole notion of identity and alienates it from essence. —Homi Bhabha2 |
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Between Demythologizing and Deconstructing the Map: Shawnadithit's New-found-land and the Alienation of Canada |
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Between Demythologizing and Deconstructing the Map: Shawnadithit's New-found-land and the Alienation of Canada |
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