Decolonial Deep Mapping
Decolonial Deep Mapping by Patricia Palmer, published by Cambridge University Press on August 14, 2025, is an 88-page exploration of deep mapping techniques in relation to cultural and literary histories. This work uses early modern Ireland as a case study to examine how these techniques, combined with a decolonial data ethic, can create a more inclusive archive that reflects diverse voices and experiences. The book investigates the connections between traditional maps and the complex relationships people have with their environments, aiming to disrupt colonial narratives and highlight the cultural vibrancy that existed prior to colonization.
Readers will find a detailed discussion on how deep mapping can counteract the dominance of anglophone colonial records by reintroducing the perspectives of the colonized. The text emphasizes the importance of recovering neglected voices and offers strategies for ‘juxtapuntal’ reading, which can contribute to decolonizing literary canons. By focusing on the interplay between maps, culture, and history, this edition presents a framework for understanding the significance of representation in literary histories and the potential of deep mapping to reshape our understanding of the past.
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Deep maps capture complex relationships to place and help trace the relationship between the abstract spaces of traditional maps and the cultural and literary history of the places that they represent. Using early modern Ireland as a template, this Element explores how deep-mapping techniques and a decolonial data ethic can be used to assemble a more culturally and linguistically representative archive and create more inclusive literary histories. It shows how deep mapping can disrupt colonial teleology and counter the monophone (and, specifically, anglophone) colonial record by bringing the long-neglected voices of the colonised back into the conversation. In doing so, it recovers a pre-conquest cultural vibrancy which colonisation, the language shift from Irish to English, and scholarly inattention successively occluded. More broadly, it offers a model for engaging with decolonial literary deep maps by developing reading strategies for ‘juxtapuntal’ reading that has the potential to decolonise the canon.
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