GG270 Lecture Notes - Quantitative Revolution, Feminist Geography, Smelting
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To own something claim it through technology (cartography) Life on the ground is irrelevant to the power grid a map creates. Not interested in what is there - remake the landscape as you desire. Eportfolio needs to show the development of understanding/ knowledge/ internalization. Colonialism- material weight to where lines are drawn which carry weight for govs/ citizens (matters on the ground but maybe not to the map maker) - form of simplification. Cartographer + geographies hold a lot of power. Harley: anticipatory geographies of colonialism maps have intentions embedded in them. Colonial maps emptied space of all social lived experience, allowed for the possession of space (central place theory) Renaissance maps changed exercise of power- materialistic weight carrying a desired end point. Creates a colonial space- material possession of territory. Rivers, mountains permit exploration and visual possession- possesses all that we view from the mountain top. Erasure of what is actually there and failure to accurately represent.
