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Counter-Mapping Maroon Cartographies: GIS and Anticolonial Modeling in St. Croix

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Dunnavant, Justin P., Wernke, Steven A., Kohut, Lauren E.·2023·ACME
DOI 10.7202/1107310ar
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Formal spatial modeling and analytical approaches to maroon settlement, fugitivity, and warfare in the colonial-era Caribbean have tended to mine historical cartographic sources instrumentally to analyze the distributions and simulate processes driving marronage in St. Croix (Dunnavant 2021b; Ejstrud 2008; Norton and Espenshade, 2007). Through close-in analysis, we compare two Danish maps of St. Croix produced in 1750 and 1799 in relation to modern cartographic sources, to explore how cartographic forms and cartesian conventions (attempt to) elide blind spots in the colonial gaze. By modeling possible subject-oriented maroon movement on georeferenced colonial maps and contemporary LiDAR, we demonstrate how GIS can recover anti-colonial agency. Additionally, the practice of georeferencing itself is a critical site of analysis, revealing distortions suggestive of social and environmental conditions that limited colonial cartographers' ability to map certain wilderness and contested landscapes that lay outside of their control.

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Authors
Dunnavant, J. P., Wernke, S. A., & Kohut, L. E.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • Vanderbilt University (US)
  • Winthrop University (US)
Venue
ACME
Publisher
Consortium Erudit
Published
2023-10-30
Volume
22
Issue
5
Pages
1294-1319
ISSN
1492-9732 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.7202/1107310ar
OpenAlex
W4388098782
Cited by
12
References
83
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Language
en
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  • Open Collections
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Colonialism, slavery, and trade
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Historical Geography and Cartography
Keywords
marronage, colonial cartography, georeferencing, LiDAR, fugitivity, colonial gaze, contested landscapes, geographic information systems, St. Croix

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