Cartography and science in early modern Europe: Mapping the construction of knowledge spaces

Turnbull, David

doi:10.1080/03085699608592830

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“…Our association of dance derived from European enlightenment traditions with global mapping systems has a socio-historical basis. This approach to dance belongs to the same 'knowledge space' (Turnbull 1996) as world maps based on lines of longitude and latitude; both originated in the academies and political states of Europe as the medieval worldview transitioned to the modern, through a series of sociocultural and intellectual paradigm shifts (Branch 2011;Harley and Woodward 1987;Turnbull 1996;Woodward 2007). Dancers trained in the EuropeanÁAmerican tradition cultivate skills that allow them to travel attending to precise pathways, directions, and proximity to specific points in space.…”

Section: Moving North 293mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…For example, Yupik dancers stand or kneel, while Yoruba dance, to provide another non-Western example, is not characterized by attentiveness to precise spatial trajectories (Ajayi 1989;Drewal 2003). By linking the western dance tradition and cartographic conventions, this thread of Moving North would bring to consciousness, and begin to engage in dialogue with, the dominant cultural paradigm for organizing both space and knowledge (Turnbull 1996), through which those of us educated and raised within that paradigm conceptualize our place on earth and the position of the poles within a global spatial scheme.…”

Section: Moving North 293mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This question challenged me, a determined experimentalist (Thrift 2008), to explore how established and innovative techniques for developing and staging dance might elicit understanding of the 'north,' both as local experience and social construct produced by globalizing mapping systems (Harley 2002;Turnbull 1996). Aware that bodies, dance practices, and performances are socially constructed, and cognizant of concerns about power and difference vis-a`-vis performers and spectators (Blau 1990;Boal 1979;Desmond 1997;Dils and Cooper Albright 2001;Foster 2011;Martin 1997;Nash 2000), I wanted to use dance in an investigation of embodiment and place that differentiated between conception and perception of north.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Moving North: engaging community with place through dance

Barnett

2012

Polar Geography

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Moving North used postmodern dance as an aesthetic and experiential entry point for engaging community with questions about how people experience north as a place and direction, and how the pole figures in systems of mapping. Moving North sponsored workshops for Anchorage residents culminating in a sitespecific performance that traveled across the University of Alaska, Anchorage campus. The workshops established distinct ways of approaching movement corresponding to the difference between conceptions and perceptions, producing a set of experiential exercises that could be replicated in studies of embodiment, and investigations of how mapping systems can affect a sense of place. Moving North used active experimentation to combine representational and nonrepresentational approaches to understanding.

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Moving North: engaging community with place through dance

Barnett

2012

Polar Geography

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“…One could also approach this variation from the point of view of language and power in order to find out if language alternation plays a part in constructing a specific view of the world (cf. Turnbull 1996). From this perspective, for example, Latin could be seen as the language which unites regions while vernaculars could be seen as languages which divide regions and mark them as belonging to larger areas where those vernaculars are spoken.…”

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Language choice, language alternation and code-switching in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas

Mäkilähde

2016

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The atlas of Gerardus Mercator (Gerard de Cremer), or the Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, is one of first modern atlases and one of the most famous of those compiled in the Netherlands. The first (unfinished) edition was published in 1595, but the copperplates were later acquired by Jodocus Hondius (Joost de Hondt) and his business associates. The revised Mercator-Hondius Atlas was published for the first time in 1606 with added maps and texts. The texts printed on verso of the maps were written by Petrus Montanus (Pieter van den Berg), who was a brother-in-law of Hondius and a Latin teacher. Many subsequent editions of the atlas were produced in the years that followed. The first editions were in Latin, but versions in European vernaculars such as French, German and Italian were produced later as well. The present article focuses on the multilingual nature of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas (1613, editio quarta) by discussing language choice, language alternation and code-switching patterns in different parts of the atlas. The dominant language of the descriptive texts is Latin, but there are also switches into many other languages, including Greek (written in Greek script) and several vernaculars. Furthermore, the map pages tend to indicate the names of different types of area (e.g. cities, seas, and oceans) in different languages. The aim of the present article is to provide a preliminary exploration of the possibilities of approaching the atlas with the aid of concepts and ideas derived from modern code-switching studies. I demonstrate how these concepts can be used to describe the language choice patterns in the text and discuss some of the challenges the data poses for a linguistic approach.

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“…For Latour (1986Latour ( , 1987 and Law (1986), the development of standardized procedures for moving information across space permitted the combining of information and the replication of the means by which this information was gathered, and this innovation in mobility was the key that gave Europe an unprecedented advantage in the accumulation of knowledge at the center and the projection of knowledge outward as power. Cartographic theorists similarly have noted how the projection of geographic images onto an abstract grid of relative space created the illusion of a decentered-and hence objectiveworld of geometry, independent from that of social hierarchy and political power, and that this facilitated the cooptation, combination, and manipulation of local knowledges so as to enable the universalization of understandings (Turnbull 1989(Turnbull , 1996Woodward 1990;Mignolo 1995). 5 Although there are significant differences among these scholars (most notably regarding whether the role of mobility in constituting identities and state power is a modern or postmodern phenomenon), they all suggest that we turn our attention toward practices and representations of mobility if we want to avoid Agnew's "territorial trap" wherein the inside of the territorial state is assumed to be a timeless fundamental sociopolitical entity.…”

Section: Constructing Outsides Through Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%