Geohumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place

ISBN-13: 9780415589796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 344 str.

Michael Dear;Jim Ketchum;Sarah Luria

Opis

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 thirty cutting edge contributions from internationally renowned scholars, architects, artists, activists, and scientists. This book explores the humanities' rapidly expanding engagement with geography, and the multi-methodological 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. GeoHumanties 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.

Spis treści

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-Clark’s 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. Thoreau’s Geopoetics  Part 3: Visual Geographies  Geoimagery  15. El otro Lado de la Línea / The other side of the line  16. The Space of Ambiguity: Sophie Ristelhueber’s 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. Ha‘ahonua: 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