{"id":819,"date":"2020-11-08T20:07:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T01:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/?p=819"},"modified":"2020-11-08T20:07:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T01:07:58","slug":"map-of-the-week-brasil-proposed-manufacturing-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2020\/11\/08\/map-of-the-week-brasil-proposed-manufacturing-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the Week: Brasil: Proposed Manufacturing Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_819'] = [\n{id: 820, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_4026.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_4026-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2020\/11\/08\/map-of-the-week-brasil-proposed-manufacturing-industries\/img_4026\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>IMG_4026<\/h1><p class=\\\"galleria-info-camera\\\">Apple iPhone 8 with iPhone 8 back camera 3.99mm f\/1.8 at 4mm and f\/1.8, 1\/15sec, ISO 80<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2020\/11\/08\/map-of-the-week-brasil-proposed-manufacturing-industries\/img_4026\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_819\" data-imgid=\"820\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_4026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-820\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_4026-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_4026-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_4026-768x817.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_4026-963x1024.jpg 963w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This map of Brazil from 1943 shows the locations of various natural resources and industries. It\u2019s unclear from the \u201cproposed\u201d in the title who is proposing these industries and to what level they may be already existing. Note the lack of cartographic information, like projection, or exact markings of industry locations.<\/p>\n<p>The producer of this map\u2013 R and A, OSS, in the bottom right corner\u2013 is the Research and Analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/news-information\/featured-story-archive\/2010-featured-story-archive\/oss-research-and-analysis.html\">CIA website,<\/a> this office was the agency\u2019s forerunner. It was created in June 1942\u2013 less than a year after the U.S. formally entered World War II\u2013 by President Franklin Roosevelt. I couldn\u2019t tell from preliminary research if the Board of Economic Warfare (under the title) was part of the OSS, but they at minimum worked together\u2013geographers, historians, and political scientists worked in the U.S. bureaucracy to assess resources and infrastructure in certain areas or regions abroad (check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/readingroom\/docs\/CIA-RDP13X00001R000100040002-8.pdf\">this<\/a> declassified document referring to these practices in relation to Japan during the war).<\/p>\n<p>How might the context of the world war have influenced what industries were chosen for this map, and what technologies might make these industries important? What is \u201ceconomic warfare\u201d in the context of World War II, who might it effect, and how might this phrase take on different meanings over time and in reference to different places?<\/p>\n<p>Have a good week,<\/p>\n<p>Aidan Antonienko \u201821<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map of Brazil from 1943 shows the locations of various natural resources and industries. It\u2019s unclear from the \u201cproposed\u201d in the title who is proposing these industries and to what level they may be already existing. Note the lack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2020\/11\/08\/map-of-the-week-brasil-proposed-manufacturing-industries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}