http://editingmodernism.ca/2014/06/visualizing-the-landscape-of-aboriginal-languages/ Mon, 09 Jun 2014 19:02:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.17 http://editingmodernism.ca/2014/06/visualizing-the-landscape-of-aboriginal-languages/comment-page-1/#comment-7788 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 20:50:08 +0000 http://editingmodernism.ca/?p=5918#comment-7788 Marc, I think this is such a wonderful exploratory use of network visualization. I haven’t the knowledge (or “domain expertise”, seeing as we’re here at DHSI and that’s the lingo) to know how and whether these languages relate to one another, but I find the idea of exploring the relationship of indigeneous languages by using networks very compelling. There’s a map that I love which shows the rough distribution of Aboriginal languages across the Australian continent, and it’s a fabulous map because it does away with all the straight and artificial lines separating the Australian states that we are so familiar with, and offers a completely different way of understanding the different spaces that the country can be divided into (ie. Aboriginal language groups). The network diagrams offer yet another way of imagining the cultural spaces of the nation in a way that does away with the divisions imposed upon the country by the colonial invaders.

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