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

ISBN-13: 9780415589802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 344 str.

Dear, Michael

Opis

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.

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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

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Michael Dear is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California Berkeley. His interests are in comparative urbanism and the US-Mexico borderlands. Recent publications include: Urban Latino Cultures; la vida latina en L.A., The Postmodern Urban Condition, and Postborder City: cultural spaces of Bajalta California.

Jim Ketchum is special projects coordinator and newsletter editor for the Association of American Geographers in Washington, D.C. A cultural geographer with interests in contemporary art and visual culture, his research examines the ways that artists use geographic perspectives and technologies in responding to war. He received his PhD from Syracuse University in 2005.

Sarah Luria is Associate Professor of English at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the author of Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. (University of New Hampshire Press, 2006). Her current book project is a study of land surveying and property making in the work of Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Robert Moses.

Doug Richardson is Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). He previously founded and was President of the firm GeoResearch, Inc., which invented, developed, and patented the first interactive GPS/GIS (global positioning system/geographic information system) technology, leading to major advances in the ways geographic information is collected, mapped, integrated, and used within geography and in society at large. He has worked closely with American Indian tribes for over twenty years on cultural and ecological issues, and is the Project Director of the AAG’s National Endowment for the Humanities funded Historical GIS Clearinghouse and Online Research Forum.