Globalisation and Representation of Space (Analyse how the production of a spatial
representation reinforce certain identities or narratives) - To what extent does the Western world impact the production of a spatial representation in maps?

Key words

Historical Materialism

Spatial Justice

Place

Urbanism

Community

Mediated

Media

People

Gaston Bachelard

Walter Benjamin

Global

Pierre Duhem

Event

Urban Living

Hong Kong lack of space

Marketing/Manipulation

Contingent

Representation

Containment

The problem of representing landscape can be seen as a
quandary of containment. - Casey, 7

We are limited to discrete objects (dimensions, frame)

Paintings

Diagram

Panorama

Maps

Nations

I propose the following definition of the
nation: it is an imagined political
community—and imagined as both
inherently limited and sovereign. - Anderson 5-6

Institutions

Museum

Census

Maps

Map

Mercator projection

Widely used and referred to

Exaggerates the size of the Earth around the poles and shrinks it around the equator

problematic given that the first world maps based on the Mercator projection were produced by European colonialists.

The task of, as it were, ‘filling in’ the boxes was to be accomplished by explorers, surveyors and military forces. … They were on the march to put space under the same surveillance which the census-makers were trying to impose on persons. Triangulation by triangulation, war by war, treaty by treaty, the alignment of map and power proceeded - Anderson 173

Power

Western countries colonising developing countries in order to legitimise their spread, especially in Southeast Asia

Tentative Argument

Reinforces power, fulfilling a hierarchical system

Nations

Institutions

Social Status

Hence the appearance, late in the nineteenth century especially of ‘historical maps,’ designed to demonstrate, in the new cartographic discourse, the antiquity of specific, tightly bound territorial units. Through chronologically arranged sequences of such maps, a sort of a political-biographical narrative of the realm came into being, sometimes with vast historical depth.

Colonial vs post colonial

Dutch East Indies

Wars

Korean War (38th parallel)

Philippines

India

Colours

US voting system; democrats vs republicans

Map-as-logo

the logo-map penetrated deep into the popular imagination, forming a powerful emblem for the anticolonial nationalism being born - Anderson 175

No more information allows it to be mass produced

Concepts

Real vs Represented

constructed by people

Surveillance

Historical

Contemporary

Physical

Mental Construct

Social

Colonisation

power is controlled by those of a higher status