Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish‐American War

Craib, Raymond B.; Burnett, D. Graham

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.1998.tb01426.x

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“…The literature is substantial. As well as the works discussed in this essay, excellent starting points can be found in Burnett (forthcoming), Craib and Burnett (1998), Edney (1997), Godlewska and Smith (1994), Helgerson (1986), Kain and Baigent (1992), Kashani-Sabet (forthcoming), Lewis (1998), Turnbull (1993), and Sparke (1995).…”

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Cartography and Power in the Conquest and Creation of New Spain

Craib

2000

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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With the so-called linguistic turn, historians have begun to study the ways in which a multitude of cultural forms are imbricated in the colonial and imperial project. In analyzing the infinite ways in which power is exercised and manifested, historians are turning a critical eye toward a myriad of cultural productions for a better understanding of how culture, politics, and power work in concert. One example is the increasing scrutiny given to geographical conceptions and representations. In Latin American colonial studies, a number of recent works have analyzed the ways in which deep, culturally rooted structures of spatial perception and representation have influenced the colonial process. This essay attempts to bring a number of those works into meaningful dialogue with one another with respect to the cultural and political facets of cartography. It also introduces work by scholars studying other regions of the world that may push the field farther and the work of the “new cultural cartographers” who have problematized traditional notions about the mimetic quality of maps and their presumed objectivity. In sum, this essay surveys recent literature pertaining to colonial cartography in Latin America, analyzes a number of comparative and theoretical studies that may broaden future research, and suggests that cartography and maps offer a fruitful avenue for further study and analysis of colonialism, imperialism, and state formation.

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Section: Maps Space and Placementioning

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Cartography and Power in the Conquest and Creation of New Spain

Craib

2000

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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“…There also continue to be Andersonian takes on the role mapping occupies in the construction of imagined communities of nationhood (e.g., Winichakul, 1994;Short, 2001;Crampton, 1996;Kosonen, 1999;Biggs, 1999;Peckham, 2000;Sparke, 1998) and on the role played by cartography in commercial élites (Brotton, 1998). Military power and its mapping has also received attention (Craib and Burnett, 1998;Vujakovic, 2002). The property relationship also continues to be mapped out in different contexts (e.g., Kain, 2002;Walker and Peters, 2001).…”

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Cartography: mapping theory

Perkins

2003

Progress in Human Geography

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It is widely accepted that 'maps and cartography comprise a primary part of the geographer 's technology, methodology and language' (Bradshaw and Williams, 1999: 250). Yet 'marxists . . . humanists . . . [s]ocial theorists and some feminists seem to find maps peripheral and irrelevant, and postmodern geographers often find maps, with their categories and symbols, downright inimical to their core agendas' (Wheeler, 1998: 2). It has been argued that quantitative geography and cartography have been devalued within human geography following the cultural turn (Dorling, 1998) and that large numbers of geographers have become 'mapphobic' (Wheeler, 1998), leaving maprelated research to the burgeoning field of Geographic Information Science and visualization.Meanwhile it has become increasingly fashionable for researchers informed by concerns with critical social theory to use the 'm' word, but to have little appreciation of how maps work as tools. Thus the history of cartography has become an active field for literary and historical investigation, with researchers discovering another map to deconstruct, or exploring written texts for embodied spatial concerns (see Helgerson and Woolway-Grenfell, 1998, andCosgrove, 1998, for many examples of these approaches). Maps 'are once again in the thick of it' (Helgerson, 1998: 3) for critical social theorists, artists, literary critics and cultural geographers, but also in a very different way for planners, GIS researchers and scientists. Art and science offer different cartographic explanations (Krygier, 1995).There are profound differences between those who research mapping as a practical form of applied knowledge, and those who seek to critique the map and the mapping process. On the one hand, scientific research addressing new agendas of visualization and representation (e.g., Fairbairn et al., 2001; Slocum et al., 2001) uses empirical investigation to develop better understanding of the cognitive processes underpinning representation of spatial information. On the other hand, critical social theory seeks to problematize mapping and visualization as social practice (e.g., Harley, 2001), to dissect the relationships between mapping and the exercise of power, and increasingly to explore the complex and contingent performative potential of mapping (e.g., Cosgrove,

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“…This grafting of the iconography of pirate lore onto a modern cartographic projection cemented the region to a romanticized past. (Black, 1997;Craib and Burnett, 1998).…”

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The United Fruit Company's tourist business and the creation of the “Golden Caribbean”, 1899-1940

Martin

2016

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Purpose This paper aims to examine the tourist business and marketing strategies of a US agribusiness giant, the United Fruit Company (UFCO), between its incorporation in 1899 and 1940. It considers how tourist marketing served the company’s public-relations interest and tourism’s broader connection to narratives of US ascendancy in the Caribbean Basin. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on original research in a series of published company materials, including annual reports and a wide variety of marketing materials, as well as a variety of rare primary sources documenting the experiences of US tourists on UFCO cruises. Findings From its incorporation in 1899, the UFCO developed a Caribbean cruise business as a vital part of its strategies of vertical integration and expansion around the region. Marketing tropical travel at a time when tropical disease dominated US perceptions of such places required a thorough conceptual makeover, and UFCO publicity played an important part in this process. The company advertised Caribbean destinations first for their therapeutic possibilities, but by the 1920s, a framework of anachronistic space and picturesque primitivism predominated in marketing campaigns. The structure of this narrative naturalized the company’s, and more broadly, US, hegemony in the region. While on cruises, tourists became witnesses to and participants in a series of spectacles and activities highlighting the company’s technological prowess and benevolence. Originality/value This analysis centers on a largely overlooked dimension of the famed banana company’s enterprise. It is grounded in a wide collection of primary sources largely untapped by researchers, a source base that brings tourist perception and experience into the story of this company’s marketing efforts. This research brings tourism and leisure into the historical discussion of US power in early-twentieth-century Latin America.

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Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish‐American War

Cited by 11 publications

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Cartography and Power in the Conquest and Creation of New Spain

Cartography and Power in the Conquest and Creation of New Spain

Cartography: mapping theory

The United Fruit Company's tourist business and the creation of the “Golden Caribbean”, 1899-1940

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