ABSTRACT

At the centre of this article is iNakba, a digital navigational application created by a Tel Aviv-based NGO in 2014. The app superimposes a layer of ruined Palestinian localities destroyed following the 1948 war, on top of the established and hegemonic Israeli geographical representation. At the end of this war and with the formation of the State of Israel, the presence of these localities was eradicated from both the territory and Israeli maps. The iNakba app uses Google maps and Waze as platforms for allowing users to find these localities and navigate towards them in order to increase knowledge about the repressed geographical past of the territory and bring about a political change. By examining iNakba from a media practice perspective, and by comparing it to a printed map published almost seven decades earlier and in very different circumstances, we highlight the unique role of layers in constructing and deconstructing cartographical knowledge. Layers, we argue, allow new potentialities for the representation and imagination of space, specifically, problematizing the eradication of Palestinian localities from the map and suggesting to re-imagine the territory as comprising the two histories and the two peoples. More broadly, the article suggests to understand layers as both a technical and political device.

摘要

本文的中心是iNakba，这是一个由总部位于特拉维夫的非政府组织于2014年创建的数字导航应用程序。该应用程序叠加了1948年战争后被摧毁的巴勒斯坦被破坏的局部地理位置，并覆盖了既定且霸权的以色列地理代表。战争结束后，随着以色列国的成立，从领土和以色列地图上都消除了这些地区的存在。iNakba应用程序使用Google地图和Waze作为平台，允许用户查找这些地点并导航到他们，以便增加对被压抑的领土过去的了解，并带来政治上的变化。通过从媒体实践的角度研究iNakba，并将其与将近七十年前出版的印刷地图进行比较，并且在非常不同的情况下，我们强调了图层在构造和解构制图知识中的独特作用。我们认为，分层为空间的表现和想象提供了新的潜力，特别是使从地图上消灭巴勒斯坦地区成为问题，并建议将领土重新想象为包括两个历史和两个民族的领土。更广泛地说，本文建议将层理解为技术和政治手段。从地图上消除根除巴勒斯坦地区的问题，并建议将领土重新想象为包括两个历史和两个民族的领土。更广泛地说，本文建议将层理解为技术和政治手段。从地图上消除根除巴勒斯坦地区的问题，并建议将领土重新想象为包括两个历史和两个民族的领土。更广泛地说，本文建议将层理解为技术和政治手段。