Rethinking and Reconstructing local narratives of Keelung’s Hoping Island- A critical study via Cartographic Analysis and remapping
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Tu, Chen-Yuan
Abstract
"North She-liao and South An-ping" indicates two significant historic places in Taiwan colonized by the Spanish and the Dutch three hundred years ago. The historical layers and richness of She-liao Island, the old name of Hoping Island, or Peace Island become the subject of academic surveys and researches of cultures and histories as well as the tool of tourism economy promoted by local communities. Besides the distinctive historical meaning of Hoping Island, the coexistence of diverse cultures from different immigrant backgrounds and periods is another important asset sustained by the residents'' everyday life. The grand narrative of history has become the focus for the construction of historical discourses and the marketing of local tourism, but the pico-narratives based on the daily routines of diverse social sub-groups are generally overlooked or manipulated.
Cartographic analysis of “historical maps” is chosen as the main approach to reveal the relationship between the power of early maps and the construction of local knowledge, and by so doing to deconstruct the grand narrative of history which dominates the discourses of Hoping Island. The research outcome shows that the early maps of Hoping Island of different historical periods coincide with the manipulation of the authorities to use maps to serve their interests. But if maps can serve the interests of the authorities, they can also serve the interests of the grassroots. This research attempts to reconstruct the meaning of pico-narrative mapping, and the multi-layered pico-narrative maps disclose what the grand narrative of historical cartography might have neglected. The remapping of the local redefines the territories of residents’ daily-life exchanges and identities, which may help people rethink the issues of historical writing and spatial programming of Hoping Island for the future from bottom up.
Subjects
Hoping Island in Keelung
critical cartography
grand narrative of history
pico-narrative
mental map
PPGIS
Type
thesis
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