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Counter-Mapping as Method: Locating and Relating the (Semi-)Peripheral Self
Counter-Mapping als Methode: Verortung und Relationierung des (semi-)peripheren Selbst
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Abstract Drawing on several critical cartographers' approach to counter-mapping as method and on Boaventura de Sousa Santos' "sociology of absences," I discuss their combination - counter-mapping as a method for the sociology of absences - as a means of enhancing sociological reflexivity through a transdisci... view more
Drawing on several critical cartographers' approach to counter-mapping as method and on Boaventura de Sousa Santos' "sociology of absences," I discuss their combination - counter-mapping as a method for the sociology of absences - as a means of enhancing sociological reflexivity through a transdisciplinary lens. Such a lens reveals the very constitution of those academic disciplines that deal with the social world as shaped by the colonial and imperial context of their emergence. I argue that counter-mapping can serve as a decolonial strategy to the essentialization of nation-states and world regions in social scientific and political discourse and propose a relational perspective capable of revealing the constitutive entanglements through which a global capitalism grounded in colonial expansion interlinked all areas of the world. The focus lies on the entanglements that counter-mapping as a method uncovers between semiperipheries such as Eastern Europe and Latin America, constructed as fixed and unrelated locations on imperial maps.... view less
Classification
Philosophy of Science, Theory of Science, Methodology, Ethics of the Social Sciences
Free Keywords
sociology of absences; counter-mapping; coloniality; unequal Europes; semiperipheries; entanglements
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 244-263
Journal
Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 2
Issue topic
Positionality Reloaded: Debating the Dimensions of Reflexivity in the Relationship Between Science and Society
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed