Mapping the Middle East from Within: (Counter‐)Cartographies of an Imperialist Construction

Culcasi, Karen

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00941.x

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“…As the Western media has been extensively criticized for its circulation of Othering discourses of the Middle East (Culcasi, 2012;Falah, 2005;Halim & Meyers, 2010;Hedge, 2011;Parikka, 2015;Pippert, 2003;Said, 1997), this media case is subjected to discussion by the refugees who are vastly affected by the public deliberation of this issue. Their interpretations of the violation of the female body complement the media analysis in this context for how culture shapes the violation of the body.…”

Section: Introduction To the Methodological Background And The Empirical Datamentioning

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Female Bodies Adrift: Violation of the Female Bodies in Becoming a Subject in the Western Media

Parikka

2018

MaC

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This article focuses on how the violation of female bodies in the case of mass harassment of women is rendered intelligible by the Western media and the refugees. Violation of female bodies is approached as a site for politicizing possibilities of becoming a subject in the Western media. Informed by Deleuzian notion of “becoming” and the subjectivation of the refugees, I argue that the understanding of “violation” is a central component in contributing to possibilities of becoming affirmed as a subject in the Western media. Empirical material subjected to critical text analysis includes a key text form the Finnish daily newspaper <em>Helsingin Sanomat </em>and refugee interviews. The analysis suggests that the repression of irreducible conceptions of “violation,” and the subsequent erasure of the uncertainty of a “self” in the process of becoming, yields to offering possibilities of becoming primarily in Western terms and the affirmation of Western ideological certainty in understanding mass harassment of European women by the refugees.

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Female Bodies Adrift: Violation of the Female Bodies in Becoming a Subject in the Western Media

Parikka

2018

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“…Of course, this region (as far as we want to think of it as such) has not only been constructed from the outside, but is also a strong point of reference from the inside, for anti-imperialist counter-narratives such as the 'Arab Homeland', which are likewise accompanied by respective cartographic representations (Culcasi 2012). As we will see below, the case of Israel and Palestine can also be conceived of as such a contested cartographic 'battlefield' (Leuenberger and Schnell 2010, p. 833), though on a smaller scale.…”

Section: Modern Cartography and Its Criticsmentioning

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Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Producing Space

Al-Rawi

2021

Mass Communication and Society

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Every effort has been made to obtain permission to use all copyrighted illustrations reproduced in this book. Nonetheless, whosoever believes to have rights to this material is advised to contact the publisher. History, Remembrance and Transformation Processes in the Middle East and North Africa (Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg) which facilitated this edited volume both conceptually and financially. The Philipps-Universität Marburg founded the research network in spring 2013 with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF). Its founding was triggered by the developments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since 2009, which highlighted the need for a partial reassessment of scholarship on MENA countries, for a development of new interdisciplinary perspectives, and for a deepening of our understanding of the events unfolding in the region: their underlying reasons, historic roots, and future perspectives. Our gratitude extends also to Gregory Fisk for style editing as well as to Leslie Karina Debus and Isabelle Wientzek for copy editing this manuscript.

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“…Assuming that maps If it isn't colored, it hasn't been researched yet. (private landowners) NOT WILLING to SELL to the Army enable their readers to 'see' certain human relationships with the land (Harris and Hazen 2006; but see also Culcasi, 2012;Kitchin and Dodge, 2007;Peluso, 1995;Pickles, 2004;Wood, 1992;, these southeastern Colorado ranchers selectively used a variety of maps to emphasize their particular-and particularly valuable and vulnerable-relationships to the land, while also undermining the Army's credibility in its expansion efforts.…”

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Militarized Spaces and Open Range: Piñon Canyon and (Counter)Cartographies of Rural Resistance

Havlick

Perramond

2015

Environ Plan D

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This paper examines how rural communities in Colorado have confronted military expansion. Against the backdrop of a series of base realignments and closures during the past three decades that have streamlined US military holdings nationwide, the US Army base at Fort Carson, Colorado, has been growing. In 1983 Fort Carson expanded into a 95 500-hectare training area in southeastern Colorado known as the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS). In 2006 the Army announced plans to expand the PCMS by 169 000 hectares. Under the Army's proposal, a significant portion of southeastern Colorado would be transformed into the largest Army training ground in the US. This prospect galvanized a diverse coalition of rural residents to oppose the Piñon Canyon expansion. Our research critically considers how the principal actors in this case—the US Army and a rural citizen opposition coalition—mobilized different narrative and political strategies based substantially upon contrasting cartographic representations to shape the debate and construct contested geographies of this space as military training ground versus open range. As of 2014, the expansion of PCMS is on hold, although there is no guarantee that base or military area expansion will not proceed in the future.

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Mapping the Middle East from Within: (Counter‐)Cartographies of an Imperialist Construction

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Female Bodies Adrift: Violation of the Female Bodies in Becoming a Subject in the Western Media

Female Bodies Adrift: Violation of the Female Bodies in Becoming a Subject in the Western Media

Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Producing Space

Militarized Spaces and Open Range: Piñon Canyon and (Counter)Cartographies of Rural Resistance

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