The assignment is to create 1 map (2 choices)
Here are a few of my favorite examples.
Everything on this website is amazing, but particularly useful for this assignment:
http://mooonriver.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-road.html
http://mooonriver.blogspot.com/2009/10/look-at-world.html
http://mooonriver.blogspot.com/2007/05/hear-you-are.htmlhttps://earlyamericanists.com/2013/07/2
4/history-by-freehand-drawing-your-research/
https://cops-off-campus-ucla.github.io/
Excerpt of a really interesting project on water is excerpted here:
http://www.an-atlas.com/contents/tsong_rtbl.html
One of the ways that East Asia, or Japan, or China, or Korea exists in our eyes as
meaningful units of analysis can be traced to the 19th century encroachment of Western imperialist
powers to the region. They brought their maps, their land surveying techniques, and their
international law with them in order to impose a new way of seeing to people in these regions. As
historian Thongchai Winichakul said in Siam Mapped , mapping played a crucial role in
legitimating the regional and the national as geopolitical units that take priority over other modes
of understanding territoriality and space.
Within this context, the project of alternative mapping is a way to disrupt the way that
conventional maps circumscribe how we study these territories and the peoples associated with
them. As Candice Fujikane explains in the aforementioned Mapping Abundance for a Planetary
Future, we can learn from other cartographic practices, in particular, from Indigenous projects of
re-mapping, that are committed to tracing [relations] with tenderness not to extract from the
land, the seas, and communities, but in order to actualize a world of abundance for all of us and to
make visible, already-existing projects that are fighting to do that very thing.
In the context of this course, the practice of re-mapping can bring to the surface (and therefore
render as meaningful), the people, places, and connections that are often erased from history
courses on East Asia, including circuits of capital that extend well beyond the region. My hope is
that through the conceptual tools that this course has offered, as well this final project, you will
question the stability of the conceptual category of the nation or the region called East Asia, and
your immediate impulse will be to think about a phenomena or historical events connections in
ways that go beyond our received tendency to focus on the national. That is, my hope is that when
you hear about something like the murder of 6 Asian women in Atlanta, your mind will
automatically ask questions about diasporic community formation in Atlanta, the gendered
repercussions of US militarism in East Asia, and that your thoughts go to the womens families in
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both the US and in Asia who are differentially impacted by the work of waiting, as June Hee
Kwon so beautifully put it in your reading.
1. Choose one of these approaches to mapping and create your own map:
Option A: A Map of Racial Capitalism and East Asia
Map one circuit of racial capitalism that we covered in this class. What places connect to each
other? Why did you decide to connect these specific places to each other? How does racial
capitalism order and divide people according to hierarchies within your map? What are the impacts
of these orderings and divisions upon people and non-people (animals, environments etc)? Your
responses to these questions can be visualized on the map, can be provided as text on the map, or
can be provided as audio clips. Dont forget Ruth Wilson Gilmores point that global conditions
and processes are always connected to local sites of place-making.
Option B: A Map of Abolitionist Geographies (place-making)
Place-making has been an important way to understand the way that people living within racial
capitalism have created relations of extra coloniality with each other (that is to say, relationships
that come out of, but exceed, and sometimes disrupt, the workings of racial capitalism and
colonialism as Goffe discussed in her writings on reggae in Jamaica). Select one instance that we
have covered in this course that you believe, serves as an example of this kind of place-making.
Map the places that people who engaged in place-making would have valued as sites of struggle or
even refuge. A kitchen, a backyard, or a city block are all acceptable responses. Your responses to
these questions can be visualized on the map, can be provided as text on the map, or can be
provided as audio clips. Dont forget Ruth Wilson Gilmores point that local sites of place-making
are always connected to global conditions and processes.
NOTE FROM CLIENT: What is written above is what my professor requested as an assignment. Please choose one of the two options (which ever one you think is more appropriate) and please write about it. You can use about a page and a half to write about it and then please give me an idea about the kind of map to construct with the rest of the page and I will do that part myself. (Unless that is also something you can do on this website by request which I would be willing to pay extra for!)
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