16 Nov 2021 2:00pm - 4:00pm Online, via Zoom

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gloknos is pleased to be co-sponsoring the launch of Mapping, Connectivity and the Making of European Empires, part of a trilogy of books edited by Associate Member Luis Lobo-Guerrero (University of Groningen) for the Global Epistemics series with Rowman & Littlefield.

This event will be hosted by the Library at the National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam and livestreamed online, via Zoom. Co-sponsored by gloknos, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), the National Maritime Museum Amsterdam, and the University of Groningen.
Speakers:

Diederick Wildeman, Curator of Nautical Science and Library Collections, the National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam

Dr. Inanna Hamati-Ataya, Editor Global Epistemic Series, Rowman and Littlefield, Director Centre for Global Knowledge Studies, Cambridge University

Dr. Djoeke van Netten, University of Amsterdam

Dr. Laura di Presto, University of Padova

Dr. Felipe dos Reis, University of Groningen

Prof. dr. Luis Lobo-Guerrero, University of Groningen and NIAS fellow
For more information about this event, including registering for the live-stream Zoom passcode, please email events@nias.knaw.nl.

 


gloknos is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022). ARTEFACT is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (ERC grant agreement no. 724451). For information about gloknos or ARTEFACT please contact the administrator in the first instance.

About the Book

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.

 

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This impressive collection of essays offers an important and timely contribution to the study of mapping, empires, and the politics of space, with the novel addition of an explicit focus on connectivity. Particularly useful is the interdisciplinary nature of the volume, given that these issues undoubtedly cross—and bring into question—disciplinary boundaries.
— Jordan Branch, Assistant Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College.

This fascinating follow up to Imaginaries of Connectivity offers an extraordinarily productive focus for further investigation of the problem of connectivity. Focusing on how, by strategically combining disparate elements, various mapping practices contributed to the creation of imperial spaces, Mapping, Connectivity and the Making of European Empires illuminates the role of maps as instruments of power, the complicated relationship between mapping and empire, and how the connectivities that maps depict both reflected European imperial ambitions and provided scaffolding for European imperial rule.
— Sandra Halperin, Professor Emerita, Department of Politics, International Relations, and Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Drawing on a range of cases from the 16th through to the 20th centuries, the contributors remind us that a map is not merely a reflection of power; a map is power. Each chapter reveals how, by constructing the ‘other’ within a system of order, relative difference, connectivity, and circulation, mapping is fundamental to the logic of empire.
— Philip Steinberg, Durham University, Professor of Political Geography at Durham University.

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