Visualizing Colonial Regimes: A Multi-View Approach to (Historical) Political Transformation

📅 2026-09-08
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本文采用批判性诠释学和后殖民理论,通过结合时间流可视化与地理分布图的方法,揭示殖民分类的构建性质及其背后的政治变迁模式。
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This paper takes a critical approach to visualization of colonial regimes. Drawing on critical hermeneutics and postcolonial theory, we created interactive visu- alizations revealing the constructed nature of colonial categories and exposing the hierarchies between empires and territories. Using the Varieties of Political Regimes dataset, our approach combines temporal flow visualization and geo- graphic distribution mapping. This allows us to contextualize colonial rule within broader patterns of political change. Our visualization challenges conventional, static, and isolated representations of colonial data by making the interpre- tive frameworks underlying colonial categorization visible through coordinated temporal, spatial, and relational views.
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colonial regimes
visualization
political transformation
critical hermeneutics
postcolonial theory
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multi-view approach
interactive visualizations
colonial categories
temporal flow visualization
geographic distribution mapping
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