Spatial Humanities

GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship

AvDavid J. Bodenhamer,John Corrigan

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Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior 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. To this end, the contributors explore 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-06-28
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:222
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780253013637
Förlag:Indiana University Press

Utforska kategorier

Historisk geografi inom Historia och arkeologi
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

David J. Bodenhamer is Executive Director of the Polis Center and Professor of History at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. John Corrigan is Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Florida State University. Trevor M. Harris is Eberly Professor of Geography and Chair of the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University.

Recensioner i media

The first attempt to tackle the issue of the humanities as an epistemic unit head-on, and to consider what the use of GIS . . . can bring to them. . . . The technical quality of the chapters is uniformly high: side-by-side they form a wide-ranging account, admirable in its ambition and scope, and authored by contributors who are recognized experts in their fields. The documentation and footnoting are exemplary, and the reader new to the field will find the further reading sections at the end extremely valuable.(Literary and Linguistic Computing)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. Turning toward Place, Space, and Time / Edward L. Ayers2. The Potential of Spatial Humanities / David J. Bodenhamer3. Geographic Information Science and Spatial Analysis for the Humanities / Karen K. Kemp4. Exploiting Time and Space: A Challenge for GIS in the Digital Humanities / Ian Gregory5. Qualitative GIS and Emergent Semantics / John Corrigan6. Representations of Space and Place in the Humanities / Gary Lock7. Mapping Text / May Yuan8. The Geospatial Semantic Web, Pareto GIS, and the Humanities / Trevor M. Harris, L. Jesse Rouse, and Susan Bergeron9. GIS, e-Science, and the Humanities Grid / Paul S. Ell10. Challenges for the Spatial Humanities: Toward a Research Agenda / Trevor M. Harris, John Corrigan, and David J. BodenhamerSuggestions for Further ReadingList of ContributorsIndex