The Spatial Humanities
GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
Published on 28. June 2010
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-0-253-35505-8 (ISBN)
Description
Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behaviour and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across time. Although successfully used by other disciplines, efforts by humanists to apply GIS and the spatial analytic method in their studies have been limited and halting. "The Spatial Humanities" aims to re-orient - and perhaps revolutionize - humanities scholarship by critically engaging the technology and specifically directing it to the subject matter of the humanities. This book explores the potential of spatial methods such as text-based geographical analysis, multimedia GIS, animated maps, deep contingency, deep mapping, and the geo-spatial semantic web to re-orient humanities scholarship.
Reviews / Votes
"An exciting and useful collection that offers great potential to shape the humanities. In many important ways the volume succeeds in showing how spatial analysis might be essential for humanities scholarship and more specifically what some of the possibilities might be." Will Thomas, University of NebraskaMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 b&w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-35505-8 (9780253355058)
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David J. Bodenhamer | John Corrigan | Trevor M. Harris
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GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
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GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
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Content
Introduction; 1. Turning toward Place, Space, and Time: Edward L. Ayers; 2. The Potential of Spatial Humanities: David J. Bodenhamer; 3. Geographic Information Science and Spatial Analysis for the Humanities: Karen Kemp; 4. Exploiting Time and Space: A Challenge for GIS in the Digital Humanities: Ian Gregory; 5. Qualitative GIS and Emergent Semantics: John Corrigan; 6. Representations of Space and Place in the Humanities: Gary Lock; 7. Mapping Text: May Yuan; 8. The Geospatial Semantic Web, Pareto GIS, and the Humanities: Trevor Harris, L. Jesse Rouse, and Susan Bergeron; 9. GIS, e-Science, and the Humanities Grid: Paul S. Ell Bibliographic Essays; About the Contributors; Notes; Index