Cartographic storytelling: reflecting on maps through an ethnographic application in Siberia

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G. Saxinger, Alexis Sancho Reinoso, Sigrid Irene Wentzel
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Abstract

In this paper, we explore the methodical, methodological, epistemological and outreach potential – and related challenges – of cartographic storytelling in ethnographic research, based on the online portal Life of BAM. Our extensive literature review highlights the need for deep self-reflection in the cartographic production of manifold realities and the way in which visualised stories can be co-produced by local people and researchers. It also describes cartography’s conceptual turns and its role in anthropology and ethnography. As an outreach tool, the Life of BAM portal conveys knowledge about social and infrastructural configurations in the greater area of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) and Amur-Yakutsk Mainline (AYaM) railroads in Eastern Siberia, through a series of lay-language and visualised ‘episodes’ built into the ArcGIS StoryMaps online tool. Interlinking qualitative and quantitative data in the cartographic visualisation of manifold realities can trigger better comprehension of complex matters, through multimodal forms of representing stories in space. Cartographic storytelling, as a means of knowledge and science communication, supports – in our case – civil society, education, heritage work and policy making, and is a way of making local concerns more tangible for state officials and corporate actors. By engaging with cartographic storytelling and building the Life of BAM portal, we affirm that a reflective attitude towards the multiplicity of stories’ ontologies in narration, collection, comprehension and representation is of key importance if we want to do justice to a decolonial approach towards Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and research partners in the field.
地图叙事:通过西伯利亚的民族志应用反映地图
在本文中,我们基于在线门户网站BAM的生活,探讨了民族志研究中地图叙事的方法,方法,认识论和推广潜力-以及相关挑战。我们广泛的文献综述强调了在多种现实的制图制作中需要深刻的自我反思,以及当地人民和研究人员共同制作可视化故事的方式。它还描述了地图学的概念转变及其在人类学和民族志中的作用。作为一种推广工具,BAM的生活门户网站通过一系列内置在ArcGIS StoryMaps在线工具中的外行语言和可视化“情节”,传达了东西伯利亚贝加尔湖-阿穆尔干线(BAM)和阿穆尔-雅库茨克干线(AYaM)铁路大区域的社会和基础设施配置知识。通过在空间中表现故事的多模态形式,将多种现实的地图可视化中的定性和定量数据相互关联,可以更好地理解复杂问题。在我们的情况下,地图叙事作为知识和科学传播的一种手段,支持公民社会、教育、遗产工作和政策制定,并且是一种使国家官员和企业行为体更切实地关注地方问题的方式。通过参与地图叙事和建立BAM的生活门户网站,我们确认,如果我们想要公正地对待土著和非土著人民以及该领域的研究伙伴的非殖民化方法,那么对叙事,收集,理解和呈现的故事本体的多样性的反思态度是至关重要的。
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