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 30 cutting-edge contributions from internationally renowned scholars, architects, artists, activists, and scientists. This book explores the humanities' rapidly expanding engagement with geography and the multimethodological inquiries that analyze the meanings of place, and then reconstructs those meanings to provoke new knowledge as well as the possibility of altered political practices. It is no coincidence that the geohumanities are forcefully emerging at a time of immense intellectual and social change. This book focuses on a range of topics to address urgent contemporary imperatives, such as the link between creativity and place; altered practices of spatial literacy; the increasing complexity of visual representation in art, culture, and science; and the ubiquitous presence of geospatial technologies in the Information Age.
GeoHumanities is essential reading for students wishing to understand the intellectual trends and forces driving scholarship and research at the intersections of geography and the humanities disciplines. These trends hold far-reaching implications for future work in these disciplines, and for understanding the changes gripping our societies and our globalizing world.
Michael Dear is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jim Ketchum is Special Projects Coordinator and Newsletter Editor for the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington, D.C.
Sarah Luria is Associate Professor of English at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Douglas Richardson is Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington, D.C.
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 30 cutting-edge contributions from internationally renowned scholars, architects, artists, activists, and scientists. This book explores the humanities' rapidly expanding engagement with geography and the multimethodological inquiries that analyze the meanings of place, and then reconstructs those meanings to provoke new knowledge as well as the possibility of altered political practices. It is no coincidence that the geohumanities are forcefully emerging at a time of immense intellectual and social change. This book focuses on a range of topics to address urgent contemporary imperatives, such as the link between creativity and place; altered practices of spatial literacy; the increasing complexity of visual representation in art, culture, and science; and the ubiquitous presence of geospatial technologies in the Information Age.
GeoHumanities is essential reading for students wishing to understand the intellectual trends and forces driving scholarship and research at the intersections of geography and the humanities disciplines. These trends hold far-reaching implications for future work in these disciplines, and for understanding the changes gripping our societies and our globalizing world.
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"This volume stands at the forefront of one of the most exciting new fields of cross-disciplinary work. The editors have assembled a spectacular array of original contributions from an impressive group of authors, whose work opens new routes into the emerging field known as the geohumanities. It is bound to become a landmark book." Anthony J. Cascardi, Director, Townsend Center for the Humanities, U.C. Berkeley, USA.
"Making a compelling case for re-aligning geography with the humanities, GeoHumanities provides a series of richly-interwoven textual, visual and cartographic essays to demonstrate the creative potential of new forms of artistic, literary and historical engagement with place. Issuing a challenge to transcend disciplinary boundaries, to forge novel connections between past and present, and to re-imagine the world in novel ways, the contributors to GeoHumanities invite us to explore afresh the politics and poetics of place." Professor Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield, UK.
"The case studies chosen for the volume have much in common: they are contemporary projects that can elicit potential interdisciplinary interaction... Many can be contextualized through use of its companion volume Envisioning Landscapes. Together, both volumes forge a new era for geographic, cultural, urban, and regional studies." - Harvey K. Flad, Journal of Regional Science
Introduction Part 1: Creative Places Geocreativity
1. Creativity and
Place
2. Experimental Geography: a conversation with Trevor Paglen
3.
Drive-by Tijuana
4. (Fake) Fake Estates: Reconsidering Gordon Matta-Clarks
Fake Estates
5. The City Formerly Known as Cambridge: a Useless Map by the
Institute for Infinitely Small Things
6. Undisciplined Geography: Notes from
the Field of Contemporary Art
7. Codex Profundo Part 2: Spatial Literacies
Geotexts
8. The Stratified Record upon which we Set our Feet: The Spatial
Turn and the Multilayering of History, Geography, and Geology
9. 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. Thoreaus Geopoetics Part 3:
Visual Geographies Geoimagery
15. El otro Lado de la Lķnea / The other side
of the line
16. The Space of Ambiguity: Sophie Ristelhuebers Aerial
Perspective
17. Counter-Geographies in the Sahara
18. Laura Kurgan, September
11th, and the Art of Critical Geography
19. The Earth Exposed: How
Geographers use Art & Science in their Exploration of the Earth from Space
20. Disorientation Guide: Cartography as Artistic Medium
21. Avarice and
Tenderness in Cinematic Landscapes of the American West
22. Altered
Landscapes Philip Govedare Part 4: Spatial Histories Geohistories
23. Mapping
Time
24. Humanities GIS: Place, Spatial Storytelling and Immersive
Visualization in the Humanities
25. Without Limits: Ancient History & GIS
26. 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 Dubois Philadelphia Negro
29.
Haahonua: 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
Michael Dear is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California Berkeley. His interests are in comparative urbanism and the US-Mexico borderlands. Recent publications include: Urban Latino Cultures; la vida latina en L.A., The Postmodern Urban Condition, and Postborder City: cultural spaces of Bajalta California.
Jim Ketchum is special projects coordinator and newsletter editor for the Association of American Geographers in Washington, D.C. A cultural geographer with interests in contemporary art and visual culture, his research examines the ways that artists use geographic perspectives and technologies in responding to war. He received his PhD from Syracuse University in 2005.
Sarah Luria is Associate Professor of English at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the author of Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. (University of New Hampshire Press, 2006). Her current book project is a study of land surveying and property making in the work of Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Robert Moses.
Doug Richardson is Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). He previously founded and was President of the firm GeoResearch, Inc., which invented, developed, and patented the first interactive GPS/GIS (global positioning system/geographic information system) technology, leading to major advances in the ways geographic information is collected, mapped, integrated, and used within geography and in society at large. He has worked closely with American Indian tribes for over twenty years on cultural and ecological issues, and is the Project Director of the AAGs National Endowment for the Humanities funded Historical GIS Clearinghouse and Online Research Forum.
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