HISTORICAL MAPS AND TERRITORIES REPRESENTATION

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

02. Historical maps

HISTORICAL BORDERS AND MAPS AS SYMBOLIC SUPPORTS TO MASTER NARRATIVES AND HISTORY EDUCATION

Cristian Parellada, Mario Carretero and María Rodríguez-Moneo (2020)

This article represents an attempt to establish a fruitful dialogue among the field of border studies, history education, sociocultural psychology, and the history of cartography. Seminal studies on borders have asserted that the historical maps included in textbooks are basically an imagined representation. This paper will consider the extent to which cultural and educational origins and uses of these maps, particularly in school settings, act as a support to historical essentialist views.

01 Historical Maps

HISTORICAL MAPS AS A NEGLECTED ISSUE IN HISTORY EDUCATION. STUDENTS AND TEXTBOOKS REPRESENTATIONS OF TERRITORIAL CHANGES OF SPAIN AND ARGENTINA

Cristian Parellada, María Rodríguez-Moneo and Mario Carretero (2024)

The aim of this paper is to focus on a matter not much considered in any of these approaches. This is to say, “where” the historical processes occurred. Usually the “where” implies a specific territory that is under dispute. In this vein, territories and their transformation through different time periods are represented by historical maps reproduced in atlas and textbooks. But these representations could have several biases and also tend to provide a number of incomplete ideas among the students and citizens in general.