From the standpoint of educational and cultural mental maps have always been as helpful as an illustrative exercise. reveal the vision of who makes it his surroundings, the world we live. No technical rigor in them or any map, but it is clear that valuable conclusions can be drawn on how to understand and assess both what is near and so, far, deserves also to be taken into consideration simply because it exists and because It records are more or less solid. Difficult escape the global dimension of what is happening where they happen. There are few geographers who have dedicated pages without story to the empirical manifestations of the "Geography of
Serve this forethought to record the surprise I produced the "mental map" that edition of El Pais Semanal 28 November, publishes designer Javier Mariscal on conception, in its view, the Catalans are in the world, the world world in which they live. It does a "charnego" or viewing a swollen Catalan Catalunya criticism but a Catalan, but from Valencia, out-and-out, recognized as one of its most distinguished talents, designer pet that occurred to know the Barcelona Olympic Games 92 (do you remember Cobi ?), and what do I know more things.
I stopped at the map carefully, because everything that has to do with the territory I am interested. And my astonishment was great, because, beyond the caricature and humorous that these drawings are to be made with a certain air of provocation, it is clear that invite reflection. Take a look at the picture, and you'll know what I mean. According to Marshal, the part of the world gravitates Catalans perceive as not so much about on Catalunya Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe epicenter of the centrality magnified and space dominance. Their references are topical, which symbolize the image
But what is lost in the remoteness is what extends beyond the river Ebro, powerful continuum short of insurmountable. Outright separation barrier, which opens from that huge bed is quite small: most hideous strength Madrid, emerges in the middle of nowhere, flanked by land interior where the cactus grows only solitary, shy contrast to peripheral regions, the signs associated with more topical in which identity is based not well understood. Identity in the case of the Basque Country and Galicia for its greenery spreads only, without in either excel another reason that it gives a symbolic name in the projection of nationalism lining is our sustained bull skin .
Very little remains beyond the Ocean Sea, I'd say the admiral, whose statue stands, proud, where they start or end of the Ramblas in Barcelona. America is faded in a very distant horizon where only excel the "skyline" of New York and the individuality of the "beautiful island", the discoverer qualifier used when he suddenly ran into Cuba. Nothing more. We miss what is missing, ie, continents (Asia, Africa, the deep southern) that, despite their distance, have much, for whatever reason, in this globalized world of images that can not escape by more than one pawn.
We should understand, finally, as a simplification, as a "boutade" as a game ("fun?) deceptive cartography, which may only lodge in the mind of an artist sampler imaginative capacity, and, of course, also very critical closer to their fellow citizens . But he certainly would attract attention, coming from a creator who knows everything. Could this be the view that the Catalans, or a significant portion of them have the world? Is it the one with the Marshal himself, without sufficiently calibrated with others?
In fact, it matters little, since, for better or for worse, the world is there, spinning around its axis, but not like it or not we like, we can never detach its universal values, multiple and contrasting and invite solidarity and indifference.
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