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• W226805990 abstract "The Shaping of a National Citizenry Maps have long been part of the American cultural landscape. Plotting military advances and territorial expansion; regulating and demarcating land through surveys, thereby inextricably merging land and property, maps have shaped our sensibility of the landscape at the same time as they have guided our movement through it. The mapped identity of the U.S. as the visualized outline of the forty-eight contiguous states is, by now, a naturalized phenomenon both in the sense that is taken for granted, and in the sense that the natural boundaries have been set by nature--originating at the Atlantic and terminating at the Pacific Ocean. (3) The shape of the continental United States, established cartographically, unproblematically represented in road maps, railroad maps, atlases, school texts, advertisements, and news, has become iconographic. Inscribed onto the popular imagination, has entered the national collective image bank [T]he shape of the United States is so ingrained in the minds of those who live here that stands for the nation as a symbol (Holmes 1991, 7), which is then conflated with the continent--America. In this nation/continent homology, however, nature operates metonymically with culture, and the cartographic presentation belies an ideological and historical shaping of the country that is anything but natural. In fact, the sleight of hand by which the irrefutable materiality of the ground that is presented and the scientific cartographic processes by which the in-itself-material map is produced transform the ideological possession of that land into its own reality and into claims that we Americans are here, coast-to-coast. This obscures alternative, often highly contested, mappings, and effaces the processes of coercion and consensus building which involve the interwoven strands of politics, economics, ideology, social change, power, and domination that have resulted in a singular narrative of national identity, visualized in the map of nation. This notion of continental integrity fused with national identity is thus one of an imagined and contested space, in which neither the nation nor the space occupies can be postulated a priori as preexisting or fixed, but is the outcome of specific historical, narrative processes. America, thus, ontologically, is not an immutable, taken for granted ground, but a potentiality to be filled with meaning and thus recognized as meaningful. Maps play a critical and yet largely unchallenged role in the ideological work of fixing such meaning. The apparent capacity of the map to hold together the nation from the internal and external forces of disintegration, the semiotic and rhetorical potency of the map, based, in part, on the deceptive fixity of the mapped terrain and the naturalness of the continental nation, can be seen as the imposition of a hegemonic view masquerading as common knowledge. In other words, it is the map that precedes the territory(Baudrillard 1983, 2); do not represent geographies or ideas; rather they effect their actualization(Corner 1999, 225). In a sense, then, the maps of the continental United States show the development of an American [creation] myth which functions to control history, to shape in text or image as an ordained sequence of events. The world is rendered pure in the process; complexity and contradiction give way to order, clarity, and direction. Myth, then, can be understood here as an abstract shelter restricting debate. But myth can also function as ideology--as an abstraction broadly defining the belief system of a particular group ... (Truettner 1991, 40). But these ideologies which undergird the overdetermined sense of order in any map are only possible through the continued discarding, forgetting, and evacuation of those strands that run counter to the main narrative; those counter mappings which threaten the integrity of the national space. …" @default.
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• W226805990 title "Mapping America: Re-Creating in the Cartographic Imagination" @default.
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