Timothy Barney
Biographic Data
| ID | 1480366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Barney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Barney |
| SIGNATURE | BARNEY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Richmond |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Angel of Sarbandan”: Ford Foundation Philanthropy, Transnational Development Rhetoric, and the Scalar Geopolitics of 1950s Iran
In 1954, the Ford Foundation, new to international grant-giving, administered a small grant to a U.S.-educated Tehran native, Najmeh Najafi, to begin a development program for “village women” in rural Iran. Development was fast becoming a central transnational discourse of the post-war decolonization period and the early Cold War, and Najafi appears as a unique contributor to this discourse, as investment in women and women's programs would not b…
Colonial Vestiges on the Map: A Rhetorical History of Development Cartography at the United Nations during Post-War Decolonization
In 1948, the United Nations set a resolution affirming the centrality of cartography to its plans for world development in its member nations. Following that resolution, the UN established a cartographic office, regular publications, and most importantly, a program of regional conferences that would begin in “Asia and the Far East” in 1955 and would start in Africa in 1963. This essay offers a rhetorical history of the UN’s early attempts to crea…
Maps in Newspapers: Approaches to Study and Practices in Portraying War since the 19th Century , by André Reyes Novaes
Maps in Newspapers: Approaches to Study and Practices in Portraying War since the 19th Century, by André Reyes Novaes." Imago Mundi, 72(2), pp. 213–214
Envisioning a Remembered Future: The Rhetorical Life and Times of The Manchurian Candidate
This article explores the rhetorical life and times of “the Manchurian candidate” in America’s rhetorical/political culture. It specifically addresses the lasting capacity of the “Manchurian candidate” to operate as a political trope, a signifier divorced fully from its original signified, yet still filled with meaning and power, particularly for ordering conspiracy rhetorics in contemporary political campaigns as an emblem of the “paranoid style…
The sight and site of North Korea: Citizen cartography’s rhetoric of resolution in the satellite imagery of labor camps
In recent years, satellite mapping of North Korea, especially of its labor camps, has become an important form of evidence of human rights violations, used by transnational advocacy groups to lobby Western governments for change. A phenomenon of “citizen cartography” has emerged where non-expert humanitarian actors use commercially available software like Google Earth to “infiltrate” the borders of North Korea. This essay interrogates the politic…
Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars
Book Review| September 01 2018 Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars. By Heather Ashley Hayes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016; pp. xv + 207. $99.00 e-book; $129.00 cloth. Timothy Barney Timothy Barney University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 543–546. htt…
Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above , by Caren Kaplan
Caren Kaplan’s brilliant new Aerial Aftermaths is full of quotable material, but perhaps it is Bruno Latour who best summed up what this book has to offer, when he wrote in his epochal essay, ‘Visu
Cartographies of war and peace
Map projection is an essential task today in a world flooded with geospatial data. It is the transformation of geographic data from ellipsoidal or spherical coordinates to a plane coordinate system. This transformation is required to bring data from various systems into a common reference framework. The transformation is developed from a 'generating globe', which is a reduced scale model of the Earth as either a sphere, an ellipsoid, or an 'aposp…
After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century . By William Rankin
After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century. By William Rankin." Imago Mundi, 69(2), pp. 257–258
A More Perfect European Union: The Transnational Networks of the European Union’s Embassy Open House in Washington, D.C
Annually, the Delegation of the European Union (EU) in Washington, D.C., holds an embassy open house day for its 27 member nations to celebrate European culture and educate tourists on the functions of EU politics and international relations. Amidst an ongoing debt crisis and a continuing exploration of its identity as a supranational entity, “Embassy Day” affords an opportunity to see the EU as a spatial network uneasily caught in the tensions b…
Citizen Havel and the Construction of Czech Presidentiality
Václav Havel had two eventful terms as the first democratic president of the Czech Republic. The documentary Citizen Havel is one rhetorical artifact that captures the way a new democracy and its attendant executive power is constructed consciously in real time in a political culture where such a tradition has largely not existed. Culled from ten years of fly-on-the-wall-style footage, Citizen Havel captures the tensions between the constitutiona…
The Peters Projection and the Latitude and Longitude of Recolonization
In 1973, German historian Arno Peters unveiled the “Peters projection,” a map that challenged the Eurocentric Mercator style by redrawing the so-called “Third World” to appear more prominent on the global landscape. The projection sparked intense debate among cartographers about the overt use of ideology in mapping, while simultaneously championed by international groups (from the UN to church organizations) as a corrective against the marginaliz…
Diagnosing the Third World: The “Map Doctor” and the Spatialized Discourses of Disease and Development in the Cold War
In the early 1950s, the American Geographical Society, in collaboration with the United States Armed Forces and international pharmaceutical corporations, instituted a Medical Geography program whose main initiative was the Atlas of Disease, a map series that documented the global spread of various afflictions such as polio, malaria, even starvation. The Atlas of Disease, through the stewardship of its director, Jacques May, a French-American phy…
Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.”: The Power of Place and the Rhetorical Life of a Cold War Map
In 1951, the American Federation of Labor produced a map of the Soviet Union showing the locations of 175 forced labor camps administered by the Gulag. Widely appropriated in popular magazines and newspapers, and disseminated internationally as propaganda against the U.S.S.R., the map, entitled “‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.,” would be cited as “one of the most widely circulated pieces of anti-Communist literature.” By contextualizing the map's origins a…
Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy
Book Review| March 01 2013 Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy. By Ned O'Gorman. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press; 2012. pp. xi + 321. $59.95 cloth. Timothy Barney Timothy Barney University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Pub…
Richard Edes Harrison and the Cartographic Perspective of Modern Internationalism
Air-age glob alism was a discursive phenomenon throughout the development of World War II that accounted for the rapid "shrinking" of the world through air technologies and the internationalization of American interests. Cartography became air-age globalism’s primary popular expression, and journalistic cartographers such as Richard Edes Harrison at Fortune magazine introduced new mapping projections and perspectives in response to these global c…
Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms
Book Review| March 01 2010 Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms. Denise M. Bostdorff. Timothy Barney Timothy Barney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2010) 13 (1): 151–154. https://doi.org/10.2307/41955596 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Bar…
When We Was Red: Good Bye Lenin! and Nostalgia for the “Everyday GDR”
In former Eastern Bloc nations, nostalgia is often seen as a dangerous pining for days under totalitarian regimes in the face of rocky transitions to democratization. This paper questions these judgments and instead proposes that the complexities of waxing nostalgic in post-communism will help us understand these transitions better. East German culture, in particular, has been at the forefront of post-communist nostalgia through its ostalgie move…
Power Lines: The Rhetoric of Maps as Social Change in the Post–Cold War Landscape
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of state socialism in Eastern and Central Europe, cartographers were faced with choices on how the new post–Cold War political landscape would be mapped. One such group called the Pluto Project had been producing atlases since 1981 with a progressive point of view about the nature of state power in the Cold War. This essay examines two of the Pluto Project's atlases as they function to identify a…
Diagnosing the Third World: The “Map Doctor” and the Spatialized Discourses of Disease and Development in the Cold War
In the early 1950s, the American Geographical Society, in collaboration with the United States Armed Forces and international pharmaceutical corporations, instituted a Medical Geography program whose main initiative was the Atlas of Disease, a map series that documented the global spread of various afflictions such as polio, malaria, even starvation. The Atlas of Disease, through the stewardship of its director, Jacques May, a French-American phy…
Richard Edes Harrison and the Cartographic Perspective of Modern Internationalism
Air-age glob alism was a discursive phenomenon throughout the development of World War II that accounted for the rapid "shrinking" of the world through air technologies and the internationalization of American interests. Cartography became air-age globalism’s primary popular expression, and journalistic cartographers such as Richard Edes Harrison at Fortune magazine introduced new mapping projections and perspectives in response to these global c…
Citizen Havel and the Construction of Czech Presidentiality
Václav Havel had two eventful terms as the first democratic president of the Czech Republic. The documentary Citizen Havel is one rhetorical artifact that captures the way a new democracy and its attendant executive power is constructed consciously in real time in a political culture where such a tradition has largely not existed. Culled from ten years of fly-on-the-wall-style footage, Citizen Havel captures the tensions between the constitutiona…
The Peters Projection and the Latitude and Longitude of Recolonization
In 1973, German historian Arno Peters unveiled the “Peters projection,” a map that challenged the Eurocentric Mercator style by redrawing the so-called “Third World” to appear more prominent on the global landscape. The projection sparked intense debate among cartographers about the overt use of ideology in mapping, while simultaneously championed by international groups (from the UN to church organizations) as a corrective against the marginaliz…
Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.”: The Power of Place and the Rhetorical Life of a Cold War Map
In 1951, the American Federation of Labor produced a map of the Soviet Union showing the locations of 175 forced labor camps administered by the Gulag. Widely appropriated in popular magazines and newspapers, and disseminated internationally as propaganda against the U.S.S.R., the map, entitled “‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.,” would be cited as “one of the most widely circulated pieces of anti-Communist literature.” By contextualizing the map's origins a…
When We Was Red: Good Bye Lenin! and Nostalgia for the “Everyday GDR”
In former Eastern Bloc nations, nostalgia is often seen as a dangerous pining for days under totalitarian regimes in the face of rocky transitions to democratization. This paper questions these judgments and instead proposes that the complexities of waxing nostalgic in post-communism will help us understand these transitions better. East German culture, in particular, has been at the forefront of post-communist nostalgia through its ostalgie move…
When We Was Red: Good Bye Lenin! and Nostalgia for the “Everyday GDR”
In former Eastern Bloc nations, nostalgia is often seen as a dangerous pining for days under totalitarian regimes in the face of rocky transitions to democratization. This paper questions these judgments and instead proposes that the complexities of waxing nostalgic in post-communism will help us understand these transitions better. East German culture, in particular, has been at the forefront of post-communist nostalgia through its ostalgie move…
Power Lines: The Rhetoric of Maps as Social Change in the Post–Cold War Landscape
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of state socialism in Eastern and Central Europe, cartographers were faced with choices on how the new post–Cold War political landscape would be mapped. One such group called the Pluto Project had been producing atlases since 1981 with a progressive point of view about the nature of state power in the Cold War. This essay examines two of the Pluto Project's atlases as they function to identify a…
Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms
Book Review| March 01 2010 Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms. Denise M. Bostdorff. Timothy Barney Timothy Barney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2010) 13 (1): 151–154. https://doi.org/10.2307/41955596 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Bar…
Richard Edes Harrison and the Cartographic Perspective of Modern Internationalism
Air-age glob alism was a discursive phenomenon throughout the development of World War II that accounted for the rapid "shrinking" of the world through air technologies and the internationalization of American interests. Cartography became air-age globalism’s primary popular expression, and journalistic cartographers such as Richard Edes Harrison at Fortune magazine introduced new mapping projections and perspectives in response to these global c…
Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.”: The Power of Place and the Rhetorical Life of a Cold War Map
In 1951, the American Federation of Labor produced a map of the Soviet Union showing the locations of 175 forced labor camps administered by the Gulag. Widely appropriated in popular magazines and newspapers, and disseminated internationally as propaganda against the U.S.S.R., the map, entitled “‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.,” would be cited as “one of the most widely circulated pieces of anti-Communist literature.” By contextualizing the map's origins a…
Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy
Book Review| March 01 2013 Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy. By Ned O'Gorman. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press; 2012. pp. xi + 321. $59.95 cloth. Timothy Barney Timothy Barney University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Pub…
The Peters Projection and the Latitude and Longitude of Recolonization
In 1973, German historian Arno Peters unveiled the “Peters projection,” a map that challenged the Eurocentric Mercator style by redrawing the so-called “Third World” to appear more prominent on the global landscape. The projection sparked intense debate among cartographers about the overt use of ideology in mapping, while simultaneously championed by international groups (from the UN to church organizations) as a corrective against the marginaliz…
Diagnosing the Third World: The “Map Doctor” and the Spatialized Discourses of Disease and Development in the Cold War
In the early 1950s, the American Geographical Society, in collaboration with the United States Armed Forces and international pharmaceutical corporations, instituted a Medical Geography program whose main initiative was the Atlas of Disease, a map series that documented the global spread of various afflictions such as polio, malaria, even starvation. The Atlas of Disease, through the stewardship of its director, Jacques May, a French-American phy…
A More Perfect European Union: The Transnational Networks of the European Union’s Embassy Open House in Washington, D.C
Annually, the Delegation of the European Union (EU) in Washington, D.C., holds an embassy open house day for its 27 member nations to celebrate European culture and educate tourists on the functions of EU politics and international relations. Amidst an ongoing debt crisis and a continuing exploration of its identity as a supranational entity, “Embassy Day” affords an opportunity to see the EU as a spatial network uneasily caught in the tensions b…
Citizen Havel and the Construction of Czech Presidentiality
Václav Havel had two eventful terms as the first democratic president of the Czech Republic. The documentary Citizen Havel is one rhetorical artifact that captures the way a new democracy and its attendant executive power is constructed consciously in real time in a political culture where such a tradition has largely not existed. Culled from ten years of fly-on-the-wall-style footage, Citizen Havel captures the tensions between the constitutiona…
Cartographies of war and peace
Map projection is an essential task today in a world flooded with geospatial data. It is the transformation of geographic data from ellipsoidal or spherical coordinates to a plane coordinate system. This transformation is required to bring data from various systems into a common reference framework. The transformation is developed from a 'generating globe', which is a reduced scale model of the Earth as either a sphere, an ellipsoid, or an 'aposp…
After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century . By William Rankin
After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century. By William Rankin." Imago Mundi, 69(2), pp. 257–258
Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars
Book Review| September 01 2018 Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars. By Heather Ashley Hayes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016; pp. xv + 207. $99.00 e-book; $129.00 cloth. Timothy Barney Timothy Barney University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 543–546. htt…
Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above , by Caren Kaplan
Caren Kaplan’s brilliant new Aerial Aftermaths is full of quotable material, but perhaps it is Bruno Latour who best summed up what this book has to offer, when he wrote in his epochal essay, ‘Visu
The sight and site of North Korea: Citizen cartography’s rhetoric of resolution in the satellite imagery of labor camps
In recent years, satellite mapping of North Korea, especially of its labor camps, has become an important form of evidence of human rights violations, used by transnational advocacy groups to lobby Western governments for change. A phenomenon of “citizen cartography” has emerged where non-expert humanitarian actors use commercially available software like Google Earth to “infiltrate” the borders of North Korea. This essay interrogates the politic…
Colonial Vestiges on the Map: A Rhetorical History of Development Cartography at the United Nations during Post-War Decolonization
In 1948, the United Nations set a resolution affirming the centrality of cartography to its plans for world development in its member nations. Following that resolution, the UN established a cartographic office, regular publications, and most importantly, a program of regional conferences that would begin in “Asia and the Far East” in 1955 and would start in Africa in 1963. This essay offers a rhetorical history of the UN’s early attempts to crea…
Maps in Newspapers: Approaches to Study and Practices in Portraying War since the 19th Century , by André Reyes Novaes
Maps in Newspapers: Approaches to Study and Practices in Portraying War since the 19th Century, by André Reyes Novaes." Imago Mundi, 72(2), pp. 213–214
Envisioning a Remembered Future: The Rhetorical Life and Times of The Manchurian Candidate
This article explores the rhetorical life and times of “the Manchurian candidate” in America’s rhetorical/political culture. It specifically addresses the lasting capacity of the “Manchurian candidate” to operate as a political trope, a signifier divorced fully from its original signified, yet still filled with meaning and power, particularly for ordering conspiracy rhetorics in contemporary political campaigns as an emblem of the “paranoid style…
The Angel of Sarbandan”: Ford Foundation Philanthropy, Transnational Development Rhetoric, and the Scalar Geopolitics of 1950s Iran
In 1954, the Ford Foundation, new to international grant-giving, administered a small grant to a U.S.-educated Tehran native, Najmeh Najafi, to begin a development program for “village women” in rural Iran. Development was fast becoming a central transnational discourse of the post-war decolonization period and the early Cold War, and Najafi appears as a unique contributor to this discourse, as investment in women and women's programs would not b…
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