Mapping Injustice: The World is Witness, Place-Framing, and the Politics of Viewing on Google Earth

Ewalt, Joshua P.

doi:10.1111/j.1753-9137.2011.01109.x

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“…22 From a different context, Joshua Ewalt (2011) argues that the rhetoric of Google Earth 'makes and frames place for the purposes of motivating action in users' (335). Ewalt acknowledges the politics of Google Earth -especially its corporate-capitalist nature, its military aesthetic and its visual capital and, more worryingly, its presentation of Africa as a continent with 'embedded injustice' (339-41).…”

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1 Introduction: The Postcolonial in/as the Global

2018

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This book is for K. Narayana Chandran, teacher. Teaching the postcolonial course-for a change!-in the MA program at the University of Hyderabad in 2017 enabled me to think through several of the themes discussed in the literatures that I read, and have found their way into this book in some form or the other. Numerous sections of the book also grew out of several years of discussions with Anna Kurian, drawing upon but also extending ideas in my earlier books and essays on the postcolonial. Finessing these ideas with inputs from Anna was, as it has been for fifteen years now, exhilarating and illuminating. To Anna, again, therefore, unquantifiable gratitude. Nandana Dutta always manages to get me to think laterally, especially on the 'Theory question'. She engages with random ideas I throw at her, on WhatsApp no less, and with considerable gentleness urges me to 'think more'. To her affection, I remain indebted. Friends such as Neelu, Angel, Ajeet, Soma, Ibrahim, Haneef, Josy, Vaishali, Premlata, Walter are not people I meet regularly, and some I haven't met for years: but their solicitous enquiries and good wishes constitute strongly supportive forces. Molly Tarun, a.k.a, Chechu, deserves a special mention for her 'how are you, little one?' (all msgs in perfect grammatical agreement, even on WhatsApp!). To Moumita Chowdhury for furnishing requested journal articles from assorted databases, even at short notice-thank you. The DoE, UoH, as a space of work has been for many years a source of inspiration and shared knowledge-and this may be traced, with no deviations whatsoever, to K Narayana Chandran, whose supply of references and ideas has remained undiminished. To KNC's wisdom and generosity, then, like dozens of people around the world in this profession, I genuflect; for his affectionate support, I express my gratitude. The sounding of the battle-drum is important; the fierce waging of the war itself is important: and the telling of the story afterwards-each is important in its own way. I tell you there is not one of them that we could do without. But if you ask me which of them takes the eagle-feather I will say boldly: the story. (123-4) Achebe, I believe, has stated unequivocally, the purpose of stories and storytelling.

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1 Introduction: The Postcolonial in/as the Global

2018

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“…Google-through its Earth Outreach program-is involved in supporting numerous public benefit projects (Ewalt 2011;Summerhayes 2015). The most obvious reason for this work is the fact that Google is involved in corporate philanthropy (Finkle 2011: 871), which invests in (among other things) environmental, humanitarian, social justice, and education projects which, in their words, have real-world impact (and offer tax benefits in return).…”

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Bringing Indigenous Kamchatka to Google Earth: Collaborative Digital Mapping with the Itelmen Peoples

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Degai

2016

Sibirica

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Indigenous peoples in the Russian Far East are engaged in vibrant cultural and linguistic resurgence and revitalization through their community and regional organizations. Through the activities of one of these organizations, a computer-aided cultural mapping project was initiated in collaboration with indigenous villages along the Kamchatka Peninsula, working with youth and elders to map out the histories of special cultural places. The project utilized innovative participatory methodologies using Google Earth and related Google mapping tools, which are freely accessible and desired for use in the communities, providing an accessible, low-cost, easyto-use computer application for detailed digital cultural mapping. This article elaborates on the use of these technologies to empower a community-based collaborative research project and reflects on critical issues in aligning community, corporate, and scholarly objectives in successful projects.of Culture in Kovran, and the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography, we set about a project to train community members to use freely available, easy-to-use software (Google Earth) to create a digital atlas of indigenous language place names and accounts by the community of culturally significant places. While representatives of several indigenous communities in Kamchatka have participated in the training, the fieldwork has so far been mainly centered in Kovran, an Itelmen fishing community on the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula where the subsistence economy is vital for the community, and where many families are significantly involved (Koester 2012;Murashko 1997).Like many indigenous peoples worldwide (Bryan and Wood 2015;Chapin et al. 2005;Eades 2015), Itelmen peoples have several goals in setting about to collaborate on a digital atlas with Indigenous-language place names and cultural sites detailed in text, video, and photos. One objective is to engage school-aged youth in conversations with elders about indigenous language, tradition, and cultural heritage. In turn, goals of documenting and celebrating indigenous cultural heritage knowledge for use in village schools and throughout the broader public benefits all Kamchatka residents, and most especially Kamchatka youth who are engaged in the contemporary resurgence of indigenous cultures.Through documenting and making accessible indigenous peoples language, history, and places of significant cultural identity, the project seeks to benefit youth, elders, and local educators/specialists in Kamchatka. The atlas materials highlight and celebrate indigenous language materials and history, they also have contextual information in Russian and English of interest to researchers and others more broadly. The digital atlas also has potential as an instrument for public policy that uniquely positions communities to communicate key values associated with particular locales in the spirit of cross-cultural collaboration.

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“…This reclamation of universality, collectivity and publicness -evident in Sliwinski and Azoulay's emphases on citizenship as a relational, intersubjective and participatory process, if also a highly tense and contested one -is, more broadly, observable in recent architectural memorialization literature, too (Haskins 2015;Stevens and Franck 2016). 2 But, as a number of critics have warned (Ewalt 2011;Feldman 2015;Herscher 2014; for a similar point made about aesthetics at large, see Saldanha 2012), the notion that aesthetically focused testimony is particularly potent for the participatory production of public truths and progressive politics risks equating aesthesis (e.g. looking, seeing, touching, hearing, etc.)…”

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The Aesthetics and Publics of Testimony

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2021

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology

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Physical environments and their images feature increasingly prominently today in efforts to contend publicly with political violence, making aesthetics ever-significant to discourses and practices of testimony. Critics have shown that the publicness of the platforms and practices used in these efforts is marked by disparate levels and types of participation and agency. Relatively underexplored, however, is how those disadvantaged by this disparity navigate it and what role aesthetics may play therein. I explore these questions through fieldwork on architectural memorializations of the 1993 Solingen arson attack where a family with Turkish background were targeted at home in their sleep. I argue that the arson attack has featured in these memorializations not simply as the subject of testimony but also as a force structuring its aesthetics.

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Mapping Injustice: The World is Witness, Place-Framing, and the Politics of Viewing on Google Earth

Cited by 12 publications

References 33 publications

1 Introduction: The Postcolonial in/as the Global

1 Introduction: The Postcolonial in/as the Global

Bringing Indigenous Kamchatka to Google Earth: Collaborative Digital Mapping with the Itelmen Peoples

The Aesthetics and Publics of Testimony

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