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篇名 地圖、權力與幻象:布萊恩•哈利的激進地圖觀及其影響解析
卷期 25/26
並列篇名 Maps, power, and imagination: Brian Harley's radical idea on maps and its effects
作者 孫俊林怡先武友德湯茂林潘玉君
頁次 041-068
關鍵字 radical cartographyknowledge-powerpost-colonial geographiesdecentralizing
出刊日期 201611

中文摘要

本文以哈利的地圖思想為中心,闡述了哈利的激進地圖觀要義包括:地圖的性質並 非中立於社會權力的客觀表述,而是鑲嵌在社會權力中的作為權力話語的社會產品,理 解地圖的性質該當由客觀性、價值中立的單一性質轉變為疊加社會權力的二元性;通過 援引德里達的修辭學和福柯的「知識-權力」觀,哈利認為任何地圖都是一種體現社會 權力結構的文本、修辭,檢視地圖本身即檢視社會權力的工作;源於西方地圖學成就並 將地圖學僅理解為西方地圖學的看法迫使非西方地圖權力的歷史寂靜,新的激進地圖學 需要擴展地圖學的涵義,將地圖和地圖學理解為複數的,反映不同社會和政治語境的事 業;地圖作為社會權力運行的工具,既可能產生非倫理的壓製,也可能成為反抗的工 具,如新興的「反製圖」、「民族製圖」、「社區製圖」、「參與製圖」等,皆反映了 哈利激進地圖思想的積極實踐步伐。可以認為,自哈利以來的製圖理論存在明顯的“袪 中心化”旅程,當前基於Web 2.0的當代製圖實踐對於避免地圖淪為特定利益或權力施展之文本化場域,以及將地圖定位於「實踐」之性質是可能的。考慮到中國古代製圖的 主流特徵是其政治性和文化性,未來中國地圖 (學) 史研究該當關注哈利的思想,這既 是對歐洲中心論地圖觀和地圖 (學) 史觀的解構,也是認識中國古代製圖本質的路徑之 一。

英文摘要

(John) Brian Harley (1932-1991) was one of the most important pioneers of radical cartography in the past century. We, in this paper, focus on Harley's idea on maps (rather than“the”map), especially his masterpieces“Maps, knowledge and power”(1988), “Deconstructing the Map”(1989),“Cartography, Ethics and Social Theory”(1990) and later a collection“The new nature of maps: essays in the history of cartography”(2001) to retrospect Harley's contribution to the thriving postmodernism, post-structuralism, and post-colonialism cartographies and geographies. By using Derrida's text rhetoric and Foucault's power-knowledge strategies to deconstruct“the”map, Harley, we conclude, have made some critical contributions to radical cartography. First, on the nature of a map, it's not only a value-free representation of“objective”objectives, but also a discourse embodied in social power structure. In other words, if we still see mapping as a scientific, an accurate, and an unprejudiced enterprise, we will make a map made in a“social vacuum”, and lost mapping's second nature as a human production. Second, as maps have certainly been used to put things in orders, to give a quiet image of much more confused situations, deconstructing a map is a deconstruction of ordered powers and societies. Third, as“the”cartography as a scientific discipline, a science of princes, is happened and disciplined in the Europe, and straightway embodied in the European imperial and colonial enterprises, we need plural cartographies and maps to deconstruct the priority of the Europe in using maps as a discourse. Fourth, and finely, as a powerful tool operation in and for power and society, map can make a non-ethical sanction, but a just revolt too. The emerging counter-mapping, ethnocartography, community-based mapping and participatory mapping-to name but a few, have put the Harleian enterprise into a practical phase now, we think. Beyond that, Harley's radical idea on maps is stimulating post(-) colonial geographers to make a post-colonial cartography, we unscramble this in the conclusion. At the volley, we make a short review of the Harleian enterprise in China, and suggest that we need the Harleian enterprise more than ever. However, at the same time, new endeavor should avoid making mapping as privilege or methods for special or local groups, new practice, for example, Map 2.0 based on or within Web 2.0, must pay more attention to place mapping as practices than presentation or construction in the future.

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