ISBN:
0203839277
,
1283379481
,
9781136883484
,
9781283379489
,
9780203839270
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 326 p.)
,
ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version GeoHumanities : Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Geography Social aspects
;
Human geography
;
Cultural geography
Abstract:
In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography's engagement with the humanities, and the humanities' integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies.GeoHumanities maps this emerging intellectual terrain with thirty cutting edge contributions from internationally renowned scholars, architects, artists, activists, and scientists. This book explores the humanities' rapidly expanding engagement with geography, and the multi-methodological inquiries that analyze the meanings of place, and then reconstructs those meanings to
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Geohumanities; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Introducing the geohumanities; Part I: Creative Places; Geocreativity; 1. Creativity and Place; 2. Experimental geography: An interview with Trevor Paglen, Oakland, CA, February 17, 2009; 3. Drive-by Tijuana; 4. [Fake] fake estates: Reconsidering Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates; 5. The City Formerly Known as Cambridge: AInstitute for Infi nitely Small Things; 6. Undisciplined geography: Notes from the field of contemporary art; 7. Codex profundo; Part 2: Spatial Literacies; Geotexts
Description / Table of Contents:
8. "The stratifi ed record upon which we set our feet": The spatial turn and the multilayering of history, geography, and geology9. Monument of myth: Finding Robert Moses through geographic fiction; 10. Fate and redemption in New Orleans: Or, why geographers should care about narrative form; 11. Wordmaps; 12. Using early modern maps in literary studies: Views and caveats from London; 13. "Along Broadway 2009"; 14. Thoreau's geopoetics; Part 3. Visual Geographies; Geoimagery; 15. El otro lado de la línea/The other side of the line
Description / Table of Contents:
16. The space of ambiguity: Sophie Ristelhueber's aerial perspective17. Counter-geographies in the Sahara; 18. Laura Kurgan, September 11, and the art of critical geography; 19. The Earth exposed: How geographers use art and science in their exploration of the Earth from space; 20. Disorientation guides: Cartography as artistic medium; 21. Avarice and tenderness in cinematic landscapes of the American West; 22. Altered landscapes; Part 4: Spatial Histories; Geohistories; 23. Mapping time; 24. Humanities GIS: Place, spatial storytelling, and immersive visualization in the humanities
Description / Table of Contents:
25. Without limits: Ancient history and GIS26. History and GIS: Railways, population change, and agricultural development in late nineteenth-century Wales; 27. Spatiality and the social web: Resituating authoritative content; 28. Teaching race and history with historical GIS: Lessons from mapping the Du Bois Philadelphia Negro; 29. Ha'ahonua: Using GIScience to link Hawaiian and Western knowledge about the environment; 30. What do humanists want? What do humanists need? What might humanists get?; Afterword; Historical moments in the rise of the geohumanities; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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