Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism: A Case Study of the Marichjhapi Massacre

IF 0.7 Q3 GEOGRAPHY
Jyothi Justin, Nirmala Menon
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Dalit massacres in India are an understudied area of research, with even fewer works on the female experiences of the massacres. As part of a larger study that aims to create a spatial archive of the female survivors of selected Dalit massacres, this article maps the female survivors of the Marichjhapi massacre (1979). Being the first prototype of the forthcoming archive, a thorough analysis of the massacre is performed here using feminist geocriticism and digital cartography. The introduction gives the background to the massacre and foregrounds the absence of female narratives surrounding the massacre. The next section addresses the gaps in understanding the relation between space, caste, and gender in Dalit scholarship. The methodology section explains the steps involved in a feminist geocritical and digital cartographical approach, which is a combination of both qualitative and quantitative research. The prototype of the cartographic visualizations using QGIS software constitutes the next section, along with a visualization of the results and analysis of the data. Dalit female experiences are foregrounded through a close reading of selected texts, both fictional and non-fictional. This will eventually result in the creation of an archive of female historiography by locating the survivors at the site of the massacre.
数字制图与女权主义地理批评:以马里奇哈皮大屠杀为例
印度的达利特大屠杀是一个研究不足的研究领域,关于女性大屠杀经历的作品就更少了。作为一项更大的研究的一部分,该研究旨在为选定的达利特大屠杀的女性幸存者创建空间档案,本文绘制了Marichjhapi大屠杀(1979)的女性幸存者的地图。作为即将到来的档案的第一个原型,这里使用女权主义地理批评和数字制图对大屠杀进行了彻底的分析。引言部分给出了大屠杀的背景,并强调了围绕大屠杀的女性叙事的缺失。下一节将讨论达利特学者在理解空间、种姓和性别之间关系方面的差距。方法论部分解释了女权主义地理批评和数字制图方法所涉及的步骤,这是定性和定量研究的结合。使用QGIS软件的地图可视化原型构成了下一节,以及结果的可视化和数据分析。达利特女性的经历是通过仔细阅读选定的文本,虚构和非虚构的前景。这将最终导致通过在大屠杀现场定位幸存者来创建女性史学档案。
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Cartographica
Cartographica GEOGRAPHY-
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1.90
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20.00%
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期刊介绍: Cartographica is dedicated to publishing articles on all aspects of cartographic and geovisualization research while maintaining its tradition of publishing material on cartographic thought, the history of cartography, and cartography and society. Cartographica also plans to consolidate its trend towards publishing research contributions that focus primarily on geographic information. Each volume of Cartographica is comprised of four issues: two or three regular issues and one or two single-topic monographs. These special monograph issues, accommodating book-length manuscripts, provide an extensive look at one particular area of cartography.
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