Mapping, Connectivity and the Making of European Empires

Luis Lobo-Guerrero (Editor), Laura Lo Presti (Editor), Filipe dos Reis (Editor)

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    Abstract

    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.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationLondon
    PublisherRowman and Littlefield
    Number of pages300
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5381-4641-5
    ISBN (Print)978-1-5381-4639-2
    Publication statusPublished - Jun-2021

    Publication series

    NameGlobal Epistemics
    PublisherRowman and Littlefield

    Keywords

    • Mapping International Relations
    • critical cartography International Relations
    • Space and International Relations
    • Historical International Relations
    • International History
    • Historical Geography
    • International Relations
    • Human Geography
    • Cultural Geography

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    • Mapping and the Making of Empire

      Lobo-Guerrero, L. (PI), Strandsbjerg, J. (Member), Lo Presti, L. (Member), dos Reis, F. (Member), Goettlich, K. (Member) & Sánchez Martínez, A. (Member)

      03/09/201820/11/2021

      Project: Research

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