Abstract
ABSTRACT 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 create technical assistance and exchange programs for mapping in the 1950s and 1960s. The argument is that UN development cartography articulated a tension between an idealistic, scientific internationalism with more national security concerns, amidst a backdrop of colonial histories and emerging superpower influence. Such influences speak to the ways decolonizing nations adopted the rhetorical forms, like maps, of the so-called developed nations, and faced the inequities and asymmetries of development discourse.
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