The spatial humanities : GIS and the future of humanities scholarship

Author(s)

• Bodenhamer, David J.
• Corrigan, John
• Harris, Trevor M.

Bibliographic Information

The spatial humanities : GIS and the future of humanities scholarship

edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, Trevor M. Harris

（Spatial humanities）

Indiana University Press, c2010

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BB0635411X
• ISBN:
  • 9780253222176
• LCCN: 2009053214
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 203 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : G70.212
  • DC22 : 001.30285
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Geographic information systems -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Human geography
  • LCSH : Humanities -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Humanities -- Social aspects -- Methodology
  • LCSH : Memory -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB06354084