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CN 51-1675/C

19世纪末英国地理知识生产建构的“更大的不列颠”神话基于《帝国联盟:展现1886年英帝国幅员的世界地图》的分析

The Construction of "Greater Britain" in Late 19th Century British Geographical Knowledge ProductionAn Analysis Based on Imperial Federation: Map of the World Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886

  • 摘要: 依托对早期欧洲地图作为权力关系中“知识制造器”的学术溯源,文章将《帝国联盟:展现1886年英帝国幅员的世界地图》置于全球史和批判制图学的双重视域下,深度剖析该地图如何通过信息的增删、统计学的伪装及艺术纹饰的符号化,制造了如下“知识”:英国广泛占领着海外领土与航线,对“无主之地”和非英属地域拥有拓殖的权力,通过本土与殖民地及实施殖民统治的区域之间的贸易推动以上各地的共同繁荣,并指引全体子民经由友爱互助共赴自由与和平。这种知识生产在地理空间和民族想象的双向扩张中建构了“更大的不列颠”神话,并试图缝合维多利亚晚期阶级、性别、民族与党派的裂痕。以上剖析证明, 19世纪末,英国地图作为有力的知识生产工具,参与了对英国社会和全球关系的重新编码。

     

    Abstract: By tracing early European maps as "instruments of knowledge production" within power relations, this study situates Imperial Federation: Map of the World Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886 within the dual frameworks of global history and critical cartography. It analyzes how the map constructs specific forms of "knowledge" through selective inclusion and omission of information, the disguise of statistical data, and the symbolic deployment of artistic ornamentation. These epistemic constructions present Britain as extensively occupying overseas territories and sea routes, claiming the right to colonize terra nullius and non-British regions, promoting common prosperity in Britain and its colonial areas through trade, and envisioning a prospect in which all British subjects achieve freedom and peace through mutual cooperation. Such processes of knowledge production contribute to the construction of the myth of "Greater Britain" through the mutual expansion of geographical space and national imagination, while attempting to suture class, gender, ethnic group, and party divisions in the late Victorian society. This analysis demonstrates that British maps functioned as powerful instruments of knowledge production at the end of the 19th century, re-encoding both British society and global relations.

     

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