UNC Disorientation Guide 2006 - Part 2
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Title
UNC Disorientation Guide 2006 - Part 2
Date
2006
Place
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Knowledge cannot be quantified or traded - it never runs out, cannot be held in place,
and continuously refines itself. Knowledge economies produce specialized workers
(researchers, programmers, and inventors) and research findings to be sold for high
profits. They also create a new set of working and living conditions for employees (see
Precarity, on reverse).
Terms like globalization, global networks, cyber infrastructures, mass immigration, global free trade policies leave us questioning
how these issues pertain to us. Is it just something that happens “out there”? Mapping provides a way to make the connections
between UNC and the “real world” visible.
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Country where UNC students studied
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We used
a Mercator projection for The World Through Course Titles (below) because it has
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historically been used for navigational maps, which we wanted to evoke. As a rectangular,
navigational map, it grossly distorts the size of landmasses (despite its appearance below,
Greenland is, in fact, only about the size of Mexico). We used a round Mollweide projection
for the graduate research map (above) because it preserves areas, making the relative areas of
each country equal to all others and thereby allowing direct comparisons of dot density. The
study abroad and international enrollment maps to the right both use the Robinson projection.
It spreads the globe in a way that makes individual countries and symbols easier to distinguish,
but distorts areas near the poles. The map on the front cover uses our own antipodal projection,
where the center of the map is the point opposite Chapel Hill on the globe, and the outer edge
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of the map is North Carolina (and Chapel Hill).
M E R I C A N
SAMPSON CC
1,722 (full-time equivalent)
students
$1,264/yr (in-state),
$7,024/yr (out-of-state)
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Roseboro
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Bonnetsville
Autryville
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6,072 students (1,043 grad)
$3,245/yr (in-state), $12,981/yr
(out-of-state)
UNC-system; founded as Howard
School for African-Americans.
Second-oldest institution of
higher ed in the state.
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Lumber Bridge
26 - 41
42 - 75
Faison
Keener
Eastover
10,076 (full-time
equivalent) students
$1,332/yr (in-state),
$7,092/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
UNCPEMBROKE
10 - 25
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Calypso world will you create in your time at UNC? How
Which
will you engage with it?
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As you walk through the Pit, posters exclaim: “Stop
Genocide in Sudan!”; “Help children in Kibera!”; “Build
Fremont
Eureka
Houses in Thailand!” From course topics
to study
abroad locations to student activism, the University
shapes your world:Pikeville
where is familiar, where is foreign,
where you feel drawn to act and where you feel safe. We
become attached to places we have only read or heard
about. Places geographically far away start to feel right
around the corner -- as if you know them.
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One of the biggest construction projects on campus is
the FedEx Global Education Center (naming
rights just
Seven Springs
MOUNT
OLIVE COLLEGE
bought for
$2 million).
When finished, it will declare
Mount Olive
“Welcome
to Carolina, Welcome to the World.”
Newton Grove
Plain View
Godwin
Spring Lake
5,632 students (670 grad)
$3,808/yr (in-state), $13,068/yr
Shannon
(out-of-state)
UNC-system; founded 1887 as
Croatan NormalRed
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only state-supported Indian
College until 1953; minority
enrollment still 49%.
rse
775 students
$17,162/yr
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Studies and riding
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Each dot represents a specific place mentioned in the title of a dissertation written by a UNC graduate student.
Source: ProQuest CurrentResearch@UNC database, and Metacarta Labs
Stantonsburg
UNC is not simply Goldsboro
a place where you study the world
as if it were a finished product for you to investigate,
observeMar-Mac
and dissect. Your time living and working here
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produces its own way to understand
and interact
with
Walnut Creek
La Grange
Brogden
the world out there.
Baptist Church
2,100 students
$18,780/yr
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to
ST. ANDREW’S
PRESBYTERIAN
COLLEGE
Hamlet
3,959 students (1,459
grad)
$16,970/yr
METHODIST
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5,174 (full-time equivalent)
students
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$7,092/yr (out-of-state)
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Selma
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of “Th ill”
3,606 (full-time equivalent)
students
$1,264/yr (in-state),
$7,024/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
Number of students
studying abroad
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JOHNSTON CC
Broadway
Looking Norman
at UNC as a series of social and material networks brings
into question the idea of a universal “college education” in a
Aberdeen
“college town.” UNC-Chapel Hill stretches beyond the
confines of
its campus and generic categories. We can see the University as a
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place made up of connections and relations among diverseAshley
groups,
Ellerbe
inhabiting particular territories including streets and watersheds,
business districts and geologic strata.
Crosswalks
Clayton
Fountain
Saratoga
Lucama
Wilson's Mills
Sanford
Candor
How does
Franklin Street appear differently to a pedestrian and a
motorist? Where does yourSeven
drainLakes
water go? What responsibility
Whispering Pines
do you have to your river system? Who makes up Chapel
Hill, only
Carthage
those who reside there? What economic exchanges, mainstream
Taylortown
and alternative, take place in and around Chapel Hill?
Pinehurst
Roads and Parking Lots
Ansonville
Pedestrian Spaces
in Downtown Chapel Hill
Clayton
Angier
UNC has bodily functions: sleeping, walking, driving, and consuming.
We rarely associate these material activities with a university.
Star
However, the university is all these things. We create this university
everyday with our actions, consciously or unconsciously, and those
Biscoe
decisions make us responsible to a variety of communities
beyond
Carthage
the classroom.
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Goldston
...producing
your world
Wilson
Church.
10,047 (full-time
equivalent) students
$1,264/yr (in-state),
$7,024/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
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Elm City
Bailey
2,486 students
$4,895/yr
Private; historically black.
Garner
UNC-CH Students studying abroad in 2005
Sharpsburg
Christian Church: Disciples
of Christ
Middlesex
Wendell
SHAW
UNIVERSITY
Holly Springs
Robbins
Badin
Dr.
ning
...a functioning
body
Zebulon
Knightdale
29,957 students (6,vvv300
grad)
$2,392/yr (in-state)
$8,491/yr (out-of-state)
UNC system
Apex
Pittsboro
Asheboro
2,544 (full-time equivalent)
students
$1,264/yr (in-state),
$7,024/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
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Siler City
1,300 students
$16,352/yr
1,600 students
$12,456/yr
Private; historically black.
NC STATE
UNIVERSITY
Franklinville
Ramseur
Denton
700 students
$20,796/yr
Private; women’s college
Tarboro
BARTON
COLLEGE
ST. AUGUSTINE’S
COLLEGE
Cary
Sl
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ps
Dangerous Places
for Pedestrians
Rolesville
PEACE
COLLEGE
Raleigh
public university.
Rocky Mount
Spring Hope
2,169 students (160 grad)
$21,200/yr
Private; women’s college
Morrisville
Jordan Lake
Fearrington
Momeyer
Bunn
MEREDITH
COLLEGE
Research
Triangle
Park
Nashville
O F S IB ERIA
UNC
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Wake Forest
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NC WESLEYAN COLLEGE
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Chapel Hill
Carrboro
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liberal arts college for
African-Americans
tson
ber
Ro
Saxapahaw
Randleman
14 of the 26 accidents at this intersection in recent years involved pedestrians,
more than any other intersection in the state.
Rese
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Durham
Fa
34 - 74
Red Oak
Youngsville
JA
4,950 students (250 grad)
$20,441/yr
Gorman
5,439 students
$1,979/yr (in-state)
$6,851/yr (out-of-state)
OF
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UNIVERSITY
12 - 33
NC CENTRAL
UNIVERSITY
ALAMANCE CC
3,676 (full-time equivalent)
students
$1,264/yr (in-state),
$7,024/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
1 - 11
Castalia
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Swepsonville
Louisburg
N
Hillsborough
Franklinton
Number of citizens
enrolled at UNC
Whitakers
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O T AN
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14,328 students (3,222
grad)
Forest Oaks
$3,038/yr (in-state),
$13,412/yr
(out-of-state)
Pleasant Garden
UNC-system
Mebane
Graham
Creedmoor
12,085 students (5,993
grad and professional)
$33,243/yr
Private
NA
Haw River
Methodist Church.
Butner
CHI
Green Level Woodlawn
Alamance
Archdale 7,864 (full-time
equivalent) students
Trinity
$1,332/yr (in-state),
$7,092/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
Thomasville
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Glen Raven
Gibsonville
Elon College
Burlington
Sedalia Whitsett
DUKE
UNIVERSITY
Centerville
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Col
GUILFORD
TECH CC
507 students, $11,650/yr
Private two-year college.
Altamahaw-Ossipee
UNC
GREENSBORO
UNIVERSITY
3,000 students
$18,130/yr
Private
Stem
n
McLeansville
Greensboro
Jamestown
eet
Str HIGH POINT
to
Y
The Most Dangerous Intersection Winston-Salem
in North Carolina High Point
for Pedestrians
United Methodist Church
LOUISBURG
COLLEGE
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ng
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United Methodist Church
572 students (all women)
$13,830/yr
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NT
Kernersville
Society of Friends (Quaker)
Bu
South Henderson
CE
1,132 students
$18,120/yr
These views map space differently by assuming the perspective of a pedestrian.
2,682 students
$11,545/yr
ke
BENNETT
COLLEGE
Whereas we once thought that coming to aHalifax
university meant “leaving the real world”, if we
take another look, it seems that the real world may be “going back to school”.
TH
GREENSBORO
COLLEGE
Oak Ridge
La
International students enrolled at UNC-CH in 2005
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Why are so many maps organized Walkertown
by roads?
GUILFORD
COLLEGE
Warrenton
R US SI
Stokesdale
Macon
Henderson
Oxford
Cary
Norlina
Middleburg
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Pedestrian Space in Chapel Hill
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Roxboro
Raleigh
Biological Oceanography
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COMPAR ATIVE HISTORY
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ROCKINGHAM CC
Stovall
IC
Wentworth
2,162 (full-time equivalent)
students
$1,264/yr (in-state), $7,024/yr
(out-of-state)
2-year community college
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UNC is part of a local network of organizations which make money through doing research
(some by taking in grants from government agencies
and other corporations, some as R&D branches of larger
companies). Each circle Yanceyville
on the map at right is centered on
the location of an organization in the local research industry;
companies with circles which are larger and darker purple have more
researchers. You’ll find concentric circles on the map where a number of
different companies share office space in the same building; often the largest
organization is an incubator providing lab space for other smaller organizations.
The 8 largest organizations are labeled on the map and described above.
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UNC is a machine of knowledge production and workforce training:
• The university’s graduates are cherished raw material for the Knowledge Economy.
Lake Gaston
Graduates and professors find contracts at corporate laboratories and research indusGaston
tries in RTP, of which
UNC is a founding
member. In fact, this area has one of the
Roanoke Rapids Lake
highest concentrations of PhDs in the country.
Roanoke Rapids
• Spin-off companies start as university
initiatives to funnel research findings into lucraSouth Rosemary
Littleton tive deals for companies
investing in the
area. Patents for new discoveries generate
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economic gain but limit access to South
the knowledge
to a few researchers.
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• The types of research in which corporations and the government choose to invest affect
the direction of UNC in its role as a factory of the Knowledge Economy.
voir
Research
Triangle Park
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or visit us on the web at http://www.countercartographies.org
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For more information, see http://creativecommons.org
UNC, a leading US research University, is part of a dense network of higher education
institutions in the area, and it is closely connected to one of the most-referenced research
and development parks in the world: the Research Triangle Park (see RTP, on reverse).
WEST A
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Maps are more and more common in daily life. Through popular programs such as Google Maps and Pentagon mainframe cartographic systems, mapping is an increasingly important way for individuals and institutions to frame their roles and activities in
the world. Mapping the university challenges existing notions of higher education institutions and our roles in them.
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Chapel Hill
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3Cs is a network of people contributing their skills and knowledge to build a common project for a different/better University.
As an open collective, 3Cs attempts to engage in non-hierarchical forms of decision-making, as well as participatory and actionoriented projects.
In the current economy, knowledge produces economic value (e.g. ideas, inventions,
know-how, information, research). In fact, products of knowledge industries may be even
more important, in terms of profit and investment, to today’s economy than industries
that produce stuff (cars, refrigerators, clothes).
C O NT EM PO RARY LA
TIN AMER
ICA
3Cs formed in the spring of 2005 as a way to explore the uses of cartography and map-making to critically understand and
intervene in the world we live in, especially the communities, ecologies and economies of our university.
Universities, especially research universities such as UNC, form vital nodes of the
knowledge economy.
Counter-Cartographies Collective, 2006
109 researchers
...a factory
UNC-Chapel Hill
Durham
1366 researchers
This Dis-Orientation Guide is the product of a Counter Cartographies Collective (3Cs) initiative that uses mapping to produce
new ways of thinking about the university.
your guide to
4000 researchers
ORIENTATION
4. RTI International
Created in 1959 by the state government, the
1. GlaxoSmithKline PLC
Research Triangle Institute was the the first tenant of
Center of pharmaceutical research for GSK, whose
the Research Triangle Park. Tightly linked to (and
major products include Advair (asthma medication),
governed jointly by) UNC, NCSU and Duke, RTI
Valtrex (herpes), Paxil and Welbutrin. GSK is
conducts contract research ($467 million in 2005) in
headquartered in London, and had a $30.6 billion
areas ranging from pharmaceutical development to
profit in 20005.
weapons systems to civil society (including a large
2. University of North Carolina
contract with the State Department to develop local
Research includes neurosciences, genomic and genetic
governance in Iraq).
science, disease prevention, public health, education.
5. US Environmental Protection Agency
UNC took in $579 million in research funding in 2005, 6. North Carolina State University
around 2/3 of which went to medical-related research
Strong especially in textiles, agricultural development,
(mostly NIH grants).
nanotechnology. Received $182 million in external
3. Laboratory Corporation of America
funding for research in 2004.
One of the world’s top providers of clinical laboratory 7. Duke University
services. Headquartered in Burlington, NC. $1.4
Clinical research, genome sciences, biochemistry,
billion profit in 2005.
materials science, photonics
8. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Government agency, third major tenant to locate
in RTP. Does research to reduce human illness and
dysfunction from environmental causes.
dis
UNC is...
Triangle Research Corporations
Legend
T H E WOR L D
THROUGH C OURSE TITLES
7
1
8
5
Knowledge cannot be quantified or traded - it never runs out, cannot be held in place,
and continuously refines itself. Knowledge economies produce specialized workers
(researchers, programmers, and inventors) and research findings to be sold for high
profits. They also create a new set of working and living conditions for employees (see
Precarity, on reverse).
Terms like globalization, global networks, cyber infrastructures, mass immigration, global free trade policies leave us questioning
how these issues pertain to us. Is it just something that happens “out there”? Mapping provides a way to make the connections
between UNC and the “real world” visible.
4
2
Reser
nu
Ave
26,800 students (8,008
grad, 2,345 professional)
$3,456/yr (in-state),
$18,104/yr (out-of-state)
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900 (full-time equivalent) students
$1,264/yr (in-state), $7,024/yr
(out-of-state)
2-year community college
L a ke T i l l e r y
Colu
m
MONTGOMERY CC
Mount Gilead
Automotive Spaces
in Downtown Chapel Hill
The
processes of creating knowledge at UNC all occur in a particular
Seagrove
set of material and social circumstances. The experience of UNC is
more than a B.A. or even a Ph.D. UNC happens somewhere, and it
requires bodies, commutes, housing, businesses, roads, rivers, and
land.
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Morrisville
Cary
Apex
Raleigh
Garner
Holly Spings
Bear Creek
Fuquay-Varina
Sanford
CEN
I N T R O
ARCHAEOLOGY
OF SOUTH AMERICA
L AT I N
First-Year Seminar:
Where Did all
the Fish Go?
Some regions have many more courses
taught about them at UNC than are
listed on this map: Western Europe
(especially Germany), Russia, and the
United States. But in general, if there
are few or no courses about a place on
the map, there are few or no courses
at UNC.
TR
OF AL
DE A
RURAL
LATIN AMERICA:
AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENT
AND NATURAL RESOURCES
TO
AFRICAN BEL IE F S Y S TE M S:
PHI LOSOPHY A N D R E L IG I O N
A M E R I C A N
HISTORY OF BRAZI L
S T U D I E S
Urban Latin America
SOUTHERN
AFRICA
IN
CONFLICT
IN
A TIV
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A F R SP E
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S O U RY P E
LITER A
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I N T R O D U C TI O N TO
A R A B C U L TU RE
S IN
M
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The place-names on this map
come from course listings in the
2005 Undergraduate Bulletin.
Most of them are regularly offered,
and all have been reviewed and
approved by the College of Arts &
Sciences. To make the map, we chose
place names in order from a randomized list of courses in the Undergraduate Bulletin (e.g. we used “Gardens of
Japan” to label Japan because on the
randomized list it was the first course
about Japan).
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AFRIC A
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RELIGION AND CULTURE
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Haw
River
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1000 - 3000
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100 - 499
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Cedar
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10 - 99
Pittsboro
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MODERN
MUSLIM
WORLD
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GREEK
ARCHITECTURE
Geography
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
AN
T F ON T
LIS
TA R S E S
N
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Constantinople:
the City and its Art
Ancient Pompeii
Mediterranean
LIT E R ATU R E OF
R U S S I A N TE R R O R I SM
BULGARIAN
LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
TO BYZANTINE
CIVILIZATION
Architecture
of Rome
LITERATURE OF
N T S AN D T H E
SO U T H
HISTORY
O FTeachey
MEXIC O
SOUTH SLAVIC
LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION TO
SERBIAN AND CROATIAN
LITERATURE
THE U.S. SOUTH
Greenevers
Rose Hill
IGR A
The Role of the
University: UNC
I
1-9
IM M
The Harlem
Renaissance
Mass Media and American Policy
RELIGION IN AMER IC A
T
F Y
S O AR
RE OR
T UMP IN
L
C UN T ES PA
CO
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85
& I-
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Beulaville
AM
I-40
Hurdle
Mills
Country where UNC-endorsed programs are
offered, but no students studied in 2005-2006.
Source: Fall 2005 Passport and Study Abroad Office
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
OF EAST ASIA
CZECH
LITERATURE
AUSTRIAN
LITERATURE
O
Garland
White OakRoxboro
Magnolia
MORMONISM
AND THE
AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE
Modern Metropolis
EUROPEAN
UNION
Chicago, 1893
EASTERN EUROPE
SINCE WWII
AGE
JEWS IN POLISH AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE
OF
GOETHE Berlin,
Picturing Paris
S T U D I E S
WESTERN
NAT IVE
A MERICAN S
NEW
Delway
Barker Ten Mile
IRELAND AND
MODERNISM
FRANCE:
RTH
Raleigh
Dikes
St. Pauls
Country where no study abroad
programs are endorsed by UNC
RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES
The Viking Age
T R I B Kenansville
A L
Ingold
Greensboro
Chapel
Hill
Country where UNC students studied
abroad in 2005-2006
We used
a Mercator projection for The World Through Course Titles (below) because it has
Hookerton
historically been used for navigational maps, which we wanted to evoke. As a rectangular,
navigational map, it grossly distorts the size of landmasses (despite its appearance below,
Greenland is, in fact, only about the size of Mexico). We used a round Mollweide projection
for the graduate research map (above) because it preserves areas, making the relative areas of
each country equal to all others and thereby allowing direct comparisons of dot density. The
study abroad and international enrollment maps to the right both use the Robinson projection.
It spreads the globe in a way that makes individual countries and symbols easier to distinguish,
but distorts areas near the poles. The map on the front cover uses our own antipodal projection,
where the center of the map is the point opposite Chapel Hill on the globe, and the outer edge
Kinston
of the map is North Carolina (and Chapel Hill).
M E R I C A N
SAMPSON CC
1,722 (full-time equivalent)
students
$1,264/yr (in-state),
$7,024/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
Rex
Tar Heel
Warsaw A
Turkey
NO
Durham
Roseboro
Clinton
IN
Pembroke
Bonnetsville
Autryville
DS
Cheraw
McColl
6,072 students (1,043 grad)
$3,245/yr (in-state), $12,981/yr
(out-of-state)
UNC-system; founded as Howard
School for African-Americans.
Second-oldest institution of
higher ed in the state.
Salemburg
ES
Prospect
Crosswalks
Parkton
Stedman
n
Maxton
Sidewalks
FAYETTEVILLE
STATE UNIV.
ri
Gibson
Ruby
A note on projections...
I T E RA T U R E
CANADIAN L
tle
Laurinburg
Snow Hill
Pink Hill
N O R T H
Vander
Dundarrach
Rennert
76 - 182
Fayetteville
Hope Mills
Lumber Bridge
26 - 41
42 - 75
Faison
Keener
Eastover
10,076 (full-time
equivalent) students
$1,332/yr (in-state),
$7,092/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
UNCPEMBROKE
10 - 25
Farmville
Calypso world will you create in your time at UNC? How
Which
will you engage with it?
Hi
Graham
Vann Crossroads
Wade
Fort Bragg
FAYETTEVILLE
TECH CC
As you walk through the Pit, posters exclaim: “Stop
Genocide in Sudan!”; “Help children in Kibera!”; “Build
Fremont
Eureka
Houses in Thailand!” From course topics
to study
abroad locations to student activism, the University
shapes your world:Pikeville
where is familiar, where is foreign,
where you feel drawn to act and where you feel safe. We
become attached to places we have only read or heard
about. Places geographically far away start to feel right
around the corner -- as if you know them.
PR
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18 0 od
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Ho
McFarlan
Spiveys Corner
Falcon
Walstonburg
One of the biggest construction projects on campus is
the FedEx Global Education Center (naming
rights just
Seven Springs
MOUNT
OLIVE COLLEGE
bought for
$2 million).
When finished, it will declare
Mount Olive
“Welcome
to Carolina, Welcome to the World.”
Newton Grove
Plain View
Godwin
Spring Lake
5,632 students (670 grad)
$3,808/yr (in-state), $13,068/yr
Shannon
(out-of-state)
UNC-system; founded 1887 as
Croatan NormalRed
School.Springs
Was the
only state-supported Indian
College until 1953; minority
enrollment still 49%.
rse
775 students
$17,162/yr
Private, specialty in Equine
Studies and riding
Linden
United Methodist Church
Base
Dunn
AM ER I C A
Morven
Wagram
Erwin
Each dot represents a specific place mentioned in the title of a dissertation written by a UNC graduate student.
Source: ProQuest CurrentResearch@UNC database, and Metacarta Labs
Stantonsburg
UNC is not simply Goldsboro
a place where you study the world
as if it were a finished product for you to investigate,
observeMar-Mac
and dissect. Your time living and working here
Elroy
produces its own way to understand
and interact
with
Walnut Creek
La Grange
Brogden
the world out there.
Baptist Church
2,100 students
$18,780/yr
Bowmore
eve
nr
to
ST. ANDREW’S
PRESBYTERIAN
COLLEGE
Hamlet
3,959 students (1,459
grad)
$16,970/yr
METHODIST
COLLEGE
Silver City
Raeford
Se
e
Princeton
Benson
CAMPBELL
UNIVERSITY
tex
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Rockingham
l
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East Rockingham
Ge Dobbins Heights
Pine Level
Coats
Lillington
5,174 (full-time equivalent)
students
$1,332/yr (in-state),
$7,092/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
Southern Pines
e tt F
B le w
Lilesville
Wadesboro
Selma
Buies Creek
Five Points
eH
of “Th ill”
3,606 (full-time equivalent)
students
$1,264/yr (in-state),
$7,024/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
Number of students
studying abroad
1-9
Graduate Research at UNC-CH, 1996-2005
TO
O N SH
C TI GLI
DU EN E
RO AL UR
I N TE D I E VE R AT
M LIT
Polkton
Micro
Four Oaks
CENTRAL
CAROLINA CC
Black Creek
Kenly
JOHNSTON CC
Broadway
Looking Norman
at UNC as a series of social and material networks brings
into question the idea of a universal “college education” in a
Aberdeen
“college town.” UNC-Chapel Hill stretches beyond the
confines of
its campus and generic categories. We can see the University as a
Heights
place made up of connections and relations among diverseAshley
groups,
Ellerbe
inhabiting particular territories including streets and watersheds,
business districts and geologic strata.
Crosswalks
Clayton
Fountain
Saratoga
Lucama
Wilson's Mills
Sanford
Candor
How does
Franklin Street appear differently to a pedestrian and a
motorist? Where does yourSeven
drainLakes
water go? What responsibility
Whispering Pines
do you have to your river system? Who makes up Chapel
Hill, only
Carthage
those who reside there? What economic exchanges, mainstream
Taylortown
and alternative, take place in and around Chapel Hill?
Pinehurst
Roads and Parking Lots
Ansonville
Pedestrian Spaces
in Downtown Chapel Hill
Clayton
Angier
UNC has bodily functions: sleeping, walking, driving, and consuming.
We rarely associate these material activities with a university.
Star
However, the university is all these things. We create this university
everyday with our actions, consciously or unconsciously, and those
Biscoe
decisions make us responsible to a variety of communities
beyond
Carthage
the classroom.
Troy
Albemarle
n
MaNorwood
Goldston
...producing
your world
Wilson
Church.
10,047 (full-time
equivalent) students
$1,264/yr (in-state),
$7,024/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
Pinetops
Sims
WAKE TECH CC
is
arr
n H ir
o
aro
She eser v
R
Elm City
Bailey
2,486 students
$4,895/yr
Private; historically black.
Garner
UNC-CH Students studying abroad in 2005
Sharpsburg
Christian Church: Disciples
of Christ
Middlesex
Wendell
SHAW
UNIVERSITY
Holly Springs
Robbins
Badin
Dr.
ning
...a functioning
body
Zebulon
Knightdale
29,957 students (6,vvv300
grad)
$2,392/yr (in-state)
$8,491/yr (out-of-state)
UNC system
Apex
Pittsboro
Asheboro
2,544 (full-time equivalent)
students
$1,264/yr (in-state),
$7,024/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
n
ero
Siler City
1,300 students
$16,352/yr
1,600 students
$12,456/yr
Private; historically black.
NC STATE
UNIVERSITY
Franklinville
Ramseur
Denton
700 students
$20,796/yr
Private; women’s college
Tarboro
BARTON
COLLEGE
ST. AUGUSTINE’S
COLLEGE
Cary
Sl
ee
ps
Dangerous Places
for Pedestrians
Rolesville
PEACE
COLLEGE
Raleigh
public university.
Rocky Mount
Spring Hope
2,169 students (160 grad)
$21,200/yr
Private; women’s college
Morrisville
Jordan Lake
Fearrington
Momeyer
Bunn
MEREDITH
COLLEGE
Research
Triangle
Park
Nashville
O F S IB ERIA
UNC
CHAPEL HILL
Authority
Leggett
Wake Forest
LES
Trans
it
75 - 316
OP
ngl
e
Dortches
ke
PE
Tria
La
NC WESLEYAN COLLEGE
PAN
Chapel Hill
Carrboro
United Church of Christ
lls
liberal arts college for
African-Americans
tson
ber
Ro
Saxapahaw
Randleman
14 of the 26 accidents at this intersection in recent years involved pedestrians,
more than any other intersection in the state.
Rese
r v o ir
Durham
Fa
34 - 74
Red Oak
Youngsville
JA
4,950 students (250 grad)
$20,441/yr
Gorman
5,439 students
$1,979/yr (in-state)
$6,851/yr (out-of-state)
OF
ELON
UNIVERSITY
12 - 33
NC CENTRAL
UNIVERSITY
ALAMANCE CC
3,676 (full-time equivalent)
students
$1,264/yr (in-state),
$7,024/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
1 - 11
Castalia
S
Swepsonville
Louisburg
N
Hillsborough
Franklinton
Number of citizens
enrolled at UNC
Whitakers
TA
HE S IE S
O T AN
HE D
R
14,328 students (3,222
grad)
Forest Oaks
$3,038/yr (in-state),
$13,412/yr
(out-of-state)
Pleasant Garden
UNC-system
Mebane
Graham
Creedmoor
12,085 students (5,993
grad and professional)
$33,243/yr
Private
NA
Haw River
Methodist Church.
Butner
CHI
Green Level Woodlawn
Alamance
Archdale 7,864 (full-time
equivalent) students
Trinity
$1,332/yr (in-state),
$7,092/yr (out-of-state)
2-year community college
Thomasville
in
nkl
Fra
Glen Raven
Gibsonville
Elon College
Burlington
Sedalia Whitsett
DUKE
UNIVERSITY
Centerville
RN
ia
mb
u
Col
GUILFORD
TECH CC
507 students, $11,650/yr
Private two-year college.
Altamahaw-Ossipee
UNC
GREENSBORO
UNIVERSITY
3,000 students
$18,130/yr
Private
Stem
n
McLeansville
Greensboro
Jamestown
eet
Str HIGH POINT
to
Y
The Most Dangerous Intersection Winston-Salem
in North Carolina High Point
for Pedestrians
United Methodist Church
LOUISBURG
COLLEGE
Kittrell
ng
UR
United Methodist Church
572 students (all women)
$13,830/yr
rli
NT
Kernersville
Society of Friends (Quaker)
Bu
South Henderson
CE
1,132 students
$18,120/yr
These views map space differently by assuming the perspective of a pedestrian.
2,682 students
$11,545/yr
ke
BENNETT
COLLEGE
Whereas we once thought that coming to aHalifax
university meant “leaving the real world”, if we
take another look, it seems that the real world may be “going back to school”.
TH
GREENSBORO
COLLEGE
Oak Ridge
La
International students enrolled at UNC-CH in 2005
A AND THE WE S
T IN T
HE 1
8
Why are so many maps organized Walkertown
by roads?
GUILFORD
COLLEGE
Warrenton
R US SI
Stokesdale
Macon
Henderson
Oxford
Cary
Norlina
Middleburg
5
Pedestrian Space in Chapel Hill
6
I-8
a ke
B e le
ws L
Walnut Cove
Reidsville
3
Roxboro
Raleigh
Biological Oceanography
AUSTRALIA / US
COMPAR ATIVE HISTORY
E
ROCKINGHAM CC
Stovall
IC
Wentworth
2,162 (full-time equivalent)
students
$1,264/yr (in-state), $7,024/yr
(out-of-state)
2-year community college
e
R
Mayodan
Madison
ak
c
Ty
UNC is part of a local network of organizations which make money through doing research
(some by taking in grants from government agencies
and other corporations, some as R&D branches of larger
companies). Each circle Yanceyville
on the map at right is centered on
the location of an organization in the local research industry;
companies with circles which are larger and darker purple have more
researchers. You’ll find concentric circles on the map where a number of
different companies share office space in the same building; often the largest
organization is an incubator providing lab space for other smaller organizations.
The 8 largest organizations are labeled on the map and described above.
Stoneville
Ke r r
oL
Mayo
Eden
UNC is a machine of knowledge production and workforce training:
• The university’s graduates are cherished raw material for the Knowledge Economy.
Lake Gaston
Graduates and professors find contracts at corporate laboratories and research indusGaston
tries in RTP, of which
UNC is a founding
member. In fact, this area has one of the
Roanoke Rapids Lake
highest concentrations of PhDs in the country.
Roanoke Rapids
• Spin-off companies start as university
initiatives to funnel research findings into lucraSouth Rosemary
Littleton tive deals for companies
investing in the
area. Patents for new discoveries generate
Weldon
economic gain but limit access to South
the knowledge
to a few researchers.
Weldon
• The types of research in which corporations and the government choose to invest affect
the direction of UNC in its role as a factory of the Knowledge Economy.
voir
Research
Triangle Park
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or visit us on the web at http://www.countercartographies.org
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UNC, a leading US research University, is part of a dense network of higher education
institutions in the area, and it is closely connected to one of the most-referenced research
and development parks in the world: the Research Triangle Park (see RTP, on reverse).
WEST A
F
Maps are more and more common in daily life. Through popular programs such as Google Maps and Pentagon mainframe cartographic systems, mapping is an increasingly important way for individuals and institutions to frame their roles and activities in
the world. Mapping the university challenges existing notions of higher education institutions and our roles in them.
ba
n
Chapel Hill
N POL ITICS
3Cs is a network of people contributing their skills and knowledge to build a common project for a different/better University.
As an open collective, 3Cs attempts to engage in non-hierarchical forms of decision-making, as well as participatory and actionoriented projects.
In the current economy, knowledge produces economic value (e.g. ideas, inventions,
know-how, information, research). In fact, products of knowledge industries may be even
more important, in terms of profit and investment, to today’s economy than industries
that produce stuff (cars, refrigerators, clothes).
C O NT EM PO RARY LA
TIN AMER
ICA
3Cs formed in the spring of 2005 as a way to explore the uses of cartography and map-making to critically understand and
intervene in the world we live in, especially the communities, ecologies and economies of our university.
Universities, especially research universities such as UNC, form vital nodes of the
knowledge economy.
Counter-Cartographies Collective, 2006
109 researchers
...a factory
UNC-Chapel Hill
Durham
1366 researchers
This Dis-Orientation Guide is the product of a Counter Cartographies Collective (3Cs) initiative that uses mapping to produce
new ways of thinking about the university.
your guide to
4000 researchers
ORIENTATION
4. RTI International
Created in 1959 by the state government, the
1. GlaxoSmithKline PLC
Research Triangle Institute was the the first tenant of
Center of pharmaceutical research for GSK, whose
the Research Triangle Park. Tightly linked to (and
major products include Advair (asthma medication),
governed jointly by) UNC, NCSU and Duke, RTI
Valtrex (herpes), Paxil and Welbutrin. GSK is
conducts contract research ($467 million in 2005) in
headquartered in London, and had a $30.6 billion
areas ranging from pharmaceutical development to
profit in 20005.
weapons systems to civil society (including a large
2. University of North Carolina
contract with the State Department to develop local
Research includes neurosciences, genomic and genetic
governance in Iraq).
science, disease prevention, public health, education.
5. US Environmental Protection Agency
UNC took in $579 million in research funding in 2005, 6. North Carolina State University
around 2/3 of which went to medical-related research
Strong especially in textiles, agricultural development,
(mostly NIH grants).
nanotechnology. Received $182 million in external
3. Laboratory Corporation of America
funding for research in 2004.
One of the world’s top providers of clinical laboratory 7. Duke University
services. Headquartered in Burlington, NC. $1.4
Clinical research, genome sciences, biochemistry,
billion profit in 2005.
materials science, photonics
8. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Government agency, third major tenant to locate
in RTP. Does research to reduce human illness and
dysfunction from environmental causes.
dis
UNC is...
Triangle Research Corporations
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THROUGH C OURSE TITLES