Seeing culture from below: Counter‐curating, counter‐ethnography, counter‐mapping

IF 3.3 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI:10.1111/tran.12710

Gavin Grindon, Duncan Hay

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Abstract

This paper reflects on our mapping and database project britishmonumentsrelatedtoslavery.net, the first and currently most complete account of British representational public monuments related to British transatlantic slavery. It reproduces our headline findings and presents some new maps of the data. However, our main focus in this paper is on placing our project in a wider context of emergent practices and methods that inspired us. First, we note the exponential historical emergence of three connected critical, grassroots ‘counter’ practices across different institutions: of mapping, curating, and ethnography. We frame their critical commonality in their ‘counter’ approach to the nexus of what Benedict Anderson identified as three key ‘institutions of power … census, map, museum’, which have been central to conceiving and executing policy. Second, we prospectively identify some of the common structural causes that underlie this emergent assembly of instituent knowledge‐making practices from below.

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从下往上看文化：反整理、反民族志、反绘图

本文反映了我们的制图和数据库项目 britishmonumentsrelatedtoslavery.net，这是第一个也是目前最完整的与英国跨大西洋奴隶制有关的英国代表性公共纪念碑。本文再现了我们的主要发现，并展示了一些新的数据地图。然而，我们在本文中的主要重点是将我们的项目置于启发我们的新兴实践和方法的更广阔背景中。首先，我们注意到在不同的机构中出现了三种相互关联的批判性草根 "反 "实践：制图、策展和人种学。本尼迪克特-安德森（Benedict Anderson）将这三种关键的 "权力机构......人口普查、地图、博物馆 "视为构想和执行政策的核心，我们将它们的关键共性归结为对这三种关键 "权力机构 "的 "反 "方法。其次，我们前瞻性地指出了一些共同的结构性原因，这些原因是自下而上的知识创造实践机构的集合体。

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