Mapping Identities Project: Geography and Cosmology

The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies, together with our collaborative partners from the National Library of Scotland and Landscape Research Group, are delighted to announce the launch of Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland.

This project, funded through the generous support of an RSE Research Collaboration Grant, will bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the ways in which maps have been, and still are, used to interpret and shape Scotland’s understanding of the present, past and future.

Though the purpose of a map may superficially be merely functional, educational or descriptive, the very act of its production will have necessitated some level of selectivity. Such selectivity can include the features presented, the scale used, where the map is centred, the annotations used and where boundaries and borders are placed.

This project asks why and how such choices are made and how these choices have impacted the way that geography, cosmology, history, geology and identity has been perceived in Scotland.        

Our aim is to encourage awareness of the work being undertaken on these themes and foster new collaborations.

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