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Dear list,
I am going to prepare a research project on the Peters projection
controversy. Probably many of you know the story: In 1973 German
historian Arno Peters (1916-2002) went to public with his world map
projection, that have led for three decades to an intensive controversy
on map qualities and on social impact to cartographic self-conception.
Though vehement rejection by the cartographic scene his map became
something like a “track record”. You find it on the cover of Willy
Brandt’s North-South commission report in 1980, in Germany it caused a
public debate on maps in TV news (in the End-1970s), the map has been
propagated by Christian development organizations like Christian Aid and
Oxfam (in Germany it is still distributed by the Evangelical Mission
Agency), it has been published by the National Council of Churches (US),
and it was distributed by UN organisations UNICEF and UNCTAD.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall-Peters_projection)
Now I am looking for academic, political, and public statements on the
projection, on Peters, and on the Peters controversy. Beside German
cartography I am familiar with the Anglo-American academic discussion
(e.g. A. Robinson, M. Monmonier, J. Crampton, P. Vujakovic, J.P.
Snyder). Due to the Anglo-American/West-European focus of databases like
JSTOR it is quite hard to get into discussions of the Spanish speaking
world or the former colonized countries in Africa and Asia. Especially
for a historian is it yet complicated to identify the major
cartographic/geographic journals in these regions.
In particular I am interested in any reference to the Peters map
* made by political organizations, initiatives and so on,
* made/published in Central and Latin American journals,
* made in journals or by organizations of the former colonized countries
in Africa and Asia,
* potential discussion in Eastern Europe.
However, any advice is very welcome.
If you are interested in a newly published paper on Peters (History
Compass, July 2010, DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2010.00693.x) contact me.
You can email me directly. Later I will give an overview to the list.
Best regards,
Stefan Müller
University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Department of History
[email protected]
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