Cartography

Strumenti cartografici per la tutela e pianificazione del suburbio di Roma: dalla Carta dell’Agro Romano alla Carta per la Qualità nel Nuovo Piano Regolatore

by Marina Marcelli

with L. Asor Rosa,  P. Rossi, L. Sasso d’Elia, in Semestrale di Studi e Ricerche di Geografia, 2007,1, pp. 61-84

Mason & Dixon: narrazione, storia e verità

by Carlo Avolio

Published in «Impossibilia. Revista Internacional de Estudios Literarios», 3, 2012, pp. 183-196 [ISSN: 2174-2464]

This paper highlights the relationship between history and fiction in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and their... more This paper highlights the relationship between history and fiction in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and their concern for truth, which appears to be “too innocent, to be left within the
reach of anyone in Power”. From this point of view, fiction is a counter-narrative which – opposing the power structures' version of history – can open new spaces for critical, political and creative consciousness. Furthermore, the opposition to the official discourse (to its single version of events) is
analogous in the novel to the critique of mapping and bounding the still unmapped and unbounded American territories: in fact, the straight boundary line (symbolized by the Mason-Dixon Line) reveals itself as an ideological act of violence towards the primordial, complex wholeness of those same territories.

Dati linguistici e cartografía tematica

by Vittorio Dell'Aquila

Μία χαρτογραφική αρχαιολογική πορεία στο βασίλειο των Μυκηνών

by Kalliopi Efkleidou

co-authored with S. Andreou and A. Kousoulakou, published in the Proceedings of the 11th National Cartographic Conference», Nafplion, 8-10 December 2010.

For An Art Against the Cartography of Everyday Life

by Ryan Griffis

For An Art Against the Cartography of Everyday Life

The research firm Strategy Analytics estimates that... more For An Art Against the Cartography of Everyday Life

The research firm Strategy Analytics estimates that over 18 million Global Position System (GPS) devices, including those built into cell phones, cars and handheld computers, were sold worldwide in 2005 (http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Business/162138/). They predict that number to grow to 88 million by 2010. Such devices, along with popular web services linking photographic representations of the earth with the mathematical grid of latitudes and longitudes, like Google Earth and Yahoo! maps, have helped enable a growing form of amateur cartography. As spatial annotation techniques - linking information to geospatial coordinates - develop parallel to the growing trend in amateur media production and distribution tools, naturalistic forms of representation find new value in their ability to be objectively located.

What role does the expansion of cartography into the "everyday" of the wired classes in the Global North mean? If the history of maps, delineating colonial conquests, bombing targets and redlined real estate, can be all too easily identified as one of Walter Benjamin's "documents of barbarism," what can we make of the present cartography of the everyday? What is being archived in the vast databases of the documented movements and minutiae of the GPS-enabled masses?

The artist and writer Alan Sekula, discussing the politics of photographic archives, once wrote that archives need to be read "from below, from a position of solidarity with those displaced, deformed, silenced, or made invisible by the machineries of profit and progress." This paper seeks to read the technologies and methods found in contemporary, popular cartography through the critical discourse surrounding archives and documentary modes of representation, as well as explore the work of artists and activists creating mapping "from below" to produce "counter-cartographies."

Towards a Mathematical Evaluation of the Significance of the Via Egnatia within the Transport Network of the Historical Region of Macedonia, in: Proceedings “Makedonija niz vekovite”, Skopje [in press]

by Mihailo Popovic

Capital Vice in the Midwest: The Spatial Distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins

by Mitch Stimers

Capital vices, or cardinal sins, have been discussed and debated since at least the 4th century, when Evagrius... more Capital vices, or cardinal sins, have been discussed and debated since at least the 4th century, when Evagrius Ponticus, a Roman born monk who relished praise from his peers and married women, first wrote of the eight evil thoughts from which all sinful behavior was based. These evil thoughts - gluttony, fornication, avarice, sorry, anger, discouragement, vainglory, and pride - were later revised in the 6th century by Pope Gregory I to constitute the seven deadly sins: Luxuria (Lust), Gula (Gluttony), Avaritia (Greed), Acedia (Sloth), Ira (Wrath), Invidia (Envy), and Superbia (Pride). From the 14th century onwards, the deadly sins have been popularized by texts, including Dante Alaghieri’s 14th century masterpiece The Divine Comedy (Alagherii, 2010), and they have continued to be a prominent focus in contemporary art, music, television, film, comic books and, most recently, video games.

The authors undertook the task of statistically representing the seven deadly sins at the county level wi- thin the Midwest region of the United States to determine what, if any, spatial coincidence occurred. Each of the seven deadly sins was given separate treatment based on sociological and economic characteristics and available data. Pride, the “greatest" and “root" of all sins, was determined to be the aggregation of each sin and represents the total sinfulness of a given county or region.

Capital Vice in the Midwest: The Spatial Distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins (Map Set)

by Mitch Stimers

These are the maps that accompany the Seven Deadly Sins paper.

National Art Museum Practice as Political Cartography in 19th Century Britain

by Chris Whitehead

in Knell S; Aronsson P; Amundsen AB; Barnes A; Burch S; Carter J; Gosselin V; Hughes S; Kirwan AM (eds), National Museums: New Studies from Around the World, Routledge 2010

This chapter will explore one of the key characteristics of nineteenth-century national museums in Britain: that of... more This chapter will explore one of the key characteristics of nineteenth-century national museums in Britain: that of mapping the world, both geographically, epistemologically and socially. I will argue that the national museum provided an institutional technology for mapping, while in its morphology it was, literally, a multi-dimensional map which constructed knowledge spatially, connectively and divisively, to represent cultural and natural hierarchies and relations and differences between things and between people. The chapter begins with a brief exploration of the notion of the museum as map by examining the use of cartographic technology within the context of institutional collecting and display of material cultures. Then, looking at the network of national museums in mid-nineteenth-century London, the chapter will discuss the importance of geography, mobility, travel, cartography and appropriation of objects within the organising structures of curatorial practice and knowledge construction with predominant reference to the notion of art and the idea of the work of art. Within this, the paper will also look at the nature of national museum representations of the home nation. Where was Britain’s place on the map? And what were the cartographical politics of national othering and selfing? In relation to the latter the paper will also consider the national museum as a cartographic technology for social mapping through which, in a post-1832 context, the social and moral order of the new British electorate was plotted. The chapter will conclude with a account of the apparently weak expressions of nationhood in mid-century national museums, enabling a view of Britain as cultural cartographer rather than as obvious cultural territory, and opening up a way of discussing the museum as space for theorising, whether explicitly or not, the complex political relations between places, cultures and peoples past and present.

Las formas de medir la ciudad: plano topográfico y catastro urbano en el Buenos Aires de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX

by Graciela Favelukes

El plano de la ciudad. Expansión y control urbano en la cartografía de Buenos Aires (1750-1870)

by Graciela Favelukes

‘Η Πελοπόννησος κατά την Πρώτη Οθωμανοκρατία (1460-1688)’, Η Πελοπόννησος, Χαρτογραφία και Ιστορία 16ος-18ος αιώνας (Αθήνα: Αρχείο Χαρτογραφίας του Ελληνικού Χώρου / ΜΙΕΤ, 2006), 53-69.

by Georgios Liakopoulos

‘I Peloponnisos kata tin Proti Othomanokratia (1460-1688)’, I Peloponnisos, Hartografia kai Istoria 16os-18os aionas (Athina: Arheio Hartografias tou Ellinikou Horou, MIET, 2006), 53-69.
‘The Peloponnese during the Early Ottoman Period (1460-1688)’, in The Peloponnese, Cartography and History, 16th-18th Century (Athens: National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, 2006), 53-69.

Review Essay: Mapping Israel-Palestine. Political Geography 30(8)

by helga tawil-souri

I músu fu woóko taánga: Restructuring in Saamáka

by Marleen van de Vate

This paper appeared in: Tromsø University Working Papers in Languages and Linguistics 35.1, Special issue on Complex Predicates (Nordlyd) (2008)

This paper addresses FU constructions in Saamáka. FU constructions are composed of a lexical or auxiliary verb and the... more This paper addresses FU constructions in Saamáka. FU constructions are composed of a lexical or auxiliary verb and the complementizer/preposition fu. They convey an aspectual or modality reading. FU constructions have a fixed position in the TMA sequence, and they are placed in between the core TMA morphemes of Saamáka. In this paper, I show that verbs in FU constructions are restructuring verbs and therefore they have a mono-clausal structure.

A Serra das Esmeraldas: Cartografia, Imaginário e Conflitos Territoriais na Capitania do Espírito Santo (Séc. XVII)

by Fabio Reis

Dissertação de Mestrado, disponível a partir da Biblioteca da PUC-SP.

The objective of this study is to analyze the origin of the myth of the Serra das Esmeraldas, in the Capitaincy of... more The objective of this study is to analyze the origin of the myth of the Serra das Esmeraldas, in the Capitaincy of Espírito Santo, and follow it’s development from the letters and reports of chroniclers of the colony until its incorporation in modern Portuguese and European cartography, reflecting also about its role in political, administrative and territorial disputes in the Portuguese America in the Seventeenth Century. We believe that from this goal it’s possible to understand the process of appreciating, and then depreciation, of Espírito Santo in the colonial period – between the first stories of the treasures in the inland, in the 1570s, and the creation of the Captaincy of São Paulo e Minas do Ouro, in
1709. To understand this process, we also analyzed the construction of the Seventeenth Century cartography, the influence from the reports of the expeditions to the wilderness, and how it influenced subsequent expeditions. We argue that the belief in the myth of the Serra das Esmeraldas increased the internalization of the colony, placed Espírito Santo among the most coveted region of the Portuguese America and the captaincy became the protagonist of the dispute between Portugal and Spain, in the colonial borders, and between the very hereditary captaincies.

Cartographic Information, Design Symbolism and Networks of Communication in Late Antiquity: Tabula Peutingeriana and Itineraria Picta

by Dimitris P. Drakoulis

Published in: D. Rossikopoulos, P. Savvaidis (eds.), The development of instruments, methods and systems of scientific measurement in Greece, Thessaloniki 2005, pages 81-105 ISBN: 978-960-89704-0-3 (in Greek)

The study of late antique cartography through web based sources

by Dimitris P. Drakoulis

Paper presented in: «Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage»
Organized by the Working Group on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage of the International Cartographic Association
Published in: e-Perimetron 2.3 (2007) 160-172

The Synekdemos of Hierokles and his cartographic representation

by Dimitris P. Drakoulis

10th National Cartographic Conference "Cartography of the Mainland: Borders, Barriers, Carriers", Ioannina; 2008
Published in: A. Tsorlini (ed.), Proceedings of the 10th National Cartographic Conference, Thessaloniki 2010, pages 199-224 ISBN: 978-060-88380-3-1

The Synekdemos of Hierokles and his cartographic representation
ABSTRACT
Synekdemos, a geographical text of... more The Synekdemos of Hierokles and his cartographic representation
ABSTRACT
Synekdemos, a geographical text of Hierokles presents the administrative structure of the Eastern Roman Empire in the early 6th century AD. Six dioeceses (large administrative units), 64 eparchiai (provinces) and 920 poleis (cities) are registered in catalogues, in such a way that the political geography of the period becomes apparent. The critical edition by Honigmann (1939) displays maps without a geophysical background. This fact makes the study of the historical settlements network more difficult. In order to facilitate this study, maps of the 64 provinces have been created to describe and offer a clear overall view of the regional context. These maps follow historical topography as this appeared in Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (2000). In addition, they support a database which classifies the settlements according to historical and geographical criteria. The first set of criteria is related to parameters and variables, such as the date of foundation, constant presence in five historical periods, ancient and modern toponyms. The second set is related to the location of the settlements, and uses parameters and variables, such as geomorphology, water elements, communication networks and presence of a nodal point or port. The province of Palaia Epeiros has been chosen as an example of the advantages that such a database has to offer. The combination of maps with a database improves the historical-geographical study of the settlements network, and accentuates the importance of Synecdemos as a basic geographical text of the period, α quality that has escaped the attention of the “official” History of Cartography (1987).

CfP: "SPACES WRITTEN IN VIOLENCE/VIOLENCE WRITTEN IN SPACES: PERSPECTIVES IN IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES" (The Tulane University Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference)

by Sophie Sarah Esch

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Tulane University Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference

SPACES... more CALL FOR PAPERS
The Tulane University Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference

SPACES WRITTEN IN VIOLENCE/VIOLENCE WRITTEN IN SPACES
PERSPECTIVES IN IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES

March 23-24, 2012

Spaces can be conceived as texts that contain information about how they were written. The converse is also true. Texts can be conceived as spaces, and they contain information about how they were configured. Texts also create and produce space(s). The Humanities and Social Sciences have increasingly turned to space as an analytical category and have drawn attention to its intrinsic relation to power and violence.
Particularly since the epistemic violence of colonialism marked the world, Iberian and Latin American literatures and cultures have been crucial in writing spaces in violence and in writing violence in space(s): From the cartas de relación to the corrido, from codices to the rise and fall of the lettered city, from testimonio to Almodóvar's and Meireilles's cinematic endeavors, these literary and cultural expressions have constituted, negotiated, created and reflected upon spaces and violence.
This conference hopes to further explore the relationship between space(s) and violence in Iberian and Latin American literatures and cultures. Possible topics include: political, social and/or economic violence taking place in urban or rural spaces, border spaces, transnational or post-national contexts; gendered spaces of violence; violence in specific regions (such as the Andes, Central America, the Caribbean) or time periods (such as Early Modern, the Long 19th Century, Spanish Civil War, Franco Era, Latin American revolutions); spaces where violence is remembered, celebrated or mourned; and textual strategies for narrating violence.
We seek papers in English, Spanish or Portuguese pertinent to the studies of Peninsular, Transatlantic and Latin American literatures and cultures. Students who are working on literature, art, architecture, film, TV, music, dance, comics or any other cultural expression are encouraged to apply.

Keynote Speakers

Juan Pablo Dabove, University of Colorado at Boulder

Yuri Herrera, Tulane University


Please send abstracts of 250-300 words to tulanegrad.spanport@gmail.com. Please include your name, phone number, and institutional affiliation in your email. Individual presentations may be up to 20 minutes in length (approx. 7-8 pages, typed, double-spaced).

The deadline for abstract submissions is January 15, 2012

All travel and lodging for the conference will be the responsibility of the participants. We will do our best, however, to accommodate participants in the homes of Tulane graduate students. For more information, please contact us by email.

Die fünf vorzüglichsten Städte Macedoniens auf Plänen des k. k. Konsuls Wilhelm von Chabert aus dem Jahre 1832. Thetis, Mannheimer Beiträge zur Klassischen Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns 18 (2011) 187-196.

by Mihailo Popovic