GeoHumanities : art, history and text at the edge of place / edited by Michael Dear ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dear, M. J. (Michael J.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Geography.

Humanities.

Physical Description:

xviii, 326 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introducing the geohumanities / Michael Dear

pt. I Creative Places

Geocreativity / Michael Dear

1.Creativity and place / Michael Dear

2.Experimental geography: an interview with Trevor Paglen, Oakland, CA, February 17, 2009 / Michael Dear

3.Drive-by Tijuana / Rene Peralta

4.[Fake] fake estates: reconsidering Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates / Martin Hogue

5.The City Formerly Known as Cambridge: a useless map by the Institute for Infinitely Small Things / Kanarinka

6.Undisciplined geography: notes from the field of contemporary art / Emily Eliza Scott

7.Codex profundo / Gustavo Leclerc

pt. II Spatial Literacies

Geotexts / Sarah Luria

8."The stratified record upon which we set our feet": the spatial turn and the multilayering of history, geography, and geology / Peta Mitchell

9.Monument of myth: finding Robert Moses through geographic fiction / Timothy Mennel

10.Fate and redemption in New Orleans: or, why geographers should care about narrative form / Barbara Eckstein

11.Wordmaps / Howard Horowitz

12.Using early modern maps in literary studies: views and caveats from London / Janelle Jenstad

13."along Broadway 2009" / Robbert Flick

14.Thoreau's geopoetics / Sarah Luria

pt. III Visual Geographies

Geoimagery / Jim Ketchum

15.El otro lado de la linealThe other side of the line / Norma Iglesias-Prieto

16.The space of ambiguity: Sophie Ristelhueber's aerial perspective / Caren Kaplan

17.Counter-geographies in the Sahara / Ursula Biemann

18.Laura Kurgan, September 11, and the art of critical geography / Jim Ketchum

19.The Earth exposed: how geographers use art and science in their exploration of the Earth from space / Stephen S. Young

20.Disorientation guides: cartography as artistic medium / Lize Mogel

21.Avarice and tenderness in cinematic landscapes of the American West / Deborah P. Dixon

22.Altered landscapes / Philip Govedare

pt. IV Spatial Histories

Geohistories / Douglas Richardson

23.Mapping time / Edward L. Ayers

24.Humanities GIS: place, spatial storytelling, and immersive visualization in the humanities / L. Jesse Rouse

25.Without limits: ancient history and GIS / Wolfgang Moschek

26.History and GIS: railways, population change, and agricultural development in late nineteenth-century Wales / Jordi Marti-Henneberg

27.Spatiality and the social web: resituating authoritative content / Ian Johnson

28.Teaching race and history with historical GIS: lessons from mapping the Du Bois Philadelphia Negro / Amy Hillier

29.Ha'ahonua: using GIScience to link Hawaiian and Western knowledge about the environment / Matthews M. Hamabata

30.What do humanists want? What do humanists need? What might humanists get? / Peter K Bol

Afterword

Historical moments in the rise of the geohumanities / Michael Dear.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415589800

9780415589796

0415589797

9780415589802

OCLC:

665136877

Publisher Number:

99943943514