A exploration of the way in which Tolkienâ s corpus of maps reflect political, colonial, and environmental power dynamics surrounding land in his Middle-earth writings.
A exploration of the way in which Tolkienâ s corpus of maps reflect political, colonial, and environmental power dynamics surrounding land in his Middle-earth writings.
Anahit Behrooz is an independent research scholar and arts journalist. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK and has taught at Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University. Her work has been published in Walking Tree's anthology Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J. R. R. Tolkien's Works, its Precursors, and Legacies and Fastitocalon, and The University of Edinburgh's The Dangerous Women Project.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction - Space, power, and critical cartography - Literary maps - Structure and overview Chapter 1: Political mapmaking - Medieval cartographic practices - Modern cartographic practices - Tolkien's cartography Map I: I Vene Kemen Map II: The 'Ambarkanta' diagrams and maps Map III: Thror's Map Map IV: The Middle-earth map Map V: Map of Rohan, Gondor and Mordor Chapter 2: Environment - Navigating the human, nonhuman, and posthuman - Tom Bombadil and the nonhuman - Mapping the human and nonhuman in Middle-earth - Stewardship - Environmental destruction - Nonhuman agency Chapter 3: Geology and Time - Deep time - Middle-earth's geology - Mapping geology and geologizing maps - Fixing experiences of time - Mapping anthropological change Chapter 4: Imperialism and Race - The politics of land and map - (Dis)possessing Middle-earth's lands - The threshold space - Mutual vulnerability and racialization - Narratives of imperialism Conclusion Index Bibliography
Introduction - Space, power, and critical cartography - Literary maps - Structure and overview Chapter 1: Political mapmaking - Medieval cartographic practices - Modern cartographic practices - Tolkien's cartography Map I: I Vene Kemen Map II: The 'Ambarkanta' diagrams and maps Map III: Thror's Map Map IV: The Middle-earth map Map V: Map of Rohan, Gondor and Mordor Chapter 2: Environment - Navigating the human, nonhuman, and posthuman - Tom Bombadil and the nonhuman - Mapping the human and nonhuman in Middle-earth - Stewardship - Environmental destruction - Nonhuman agency Chapter 3: Geology and Time - Deep time - Middle-earth's geology - Mapping geology and geologizing maps - Fixing experiences of time - Mapping anthropological change Chapter 4: Imperialism and Race - The politics of land and map - (Dis)possessing Middle-earth's lands - The threshold space - Mutual vulnerability and racialization - Narratives of imperialism Conclusion Index Bibliography
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