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The Spatial Humanities

The Spatial Humanities

Name: The Spatial Humanities
Author: David J. Bodenhamer
ISBN: 9780253222176

GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship

Edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan and Trevor M. Harris

Published by: Indiana University Press

Imprint: Indiana University Press

222 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm, 25 b&w illus.

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9780253222176
Published: June 2010

£18.99

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Published: June 2010

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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.

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 K. 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 M. Harris, L. Jesse Rouse, and Susan Bergeron
9. GIS, e-Science, and the Humanities Grid / Paul S. Ell
10. Challenges for the Spatial Humanities: Toward a Research Agenda / Trevor M. Harris, John Corrigan, and David J. Bodenhamer
Suggestions for Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index

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.

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)

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