The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
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This book proposes the development of spatial humanities that promises to revitalize and redefine scholarship by (re)introducing geographic concepts of space. The Spatial Humanities. GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship. Edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan and Trevor M. Harris.
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Did the Dust Bowl of the s and result from over-farming the land or was it primarily the consequence of larger term environmental changes? What influence did the rapidly changing cityscape of London have on literature in Elizabethan England? What is the relationship between rulers and territory in the checkered political landscape of state formation in nineteenth-century Germany?
How did spatial networks influence the administrative geography of medieval China?
Increasingly, scholars are turning to GIS to provide new perspective on these and other topics that previously have been studied outside of an explicitly spatial framework. Spatial humanities, especially with a humanities-friendly GIS at its center, can be a tool with revolutionary potential for scholarship, but as such, it faces significant obstacles at the outset. It links two approaches to knowledge that, at first glance, rest on different epistemological footings.
The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
Humanities scholars speak often of conceptual and cognitive mapping, but view geographic mapping, the stock in trade of GIS, as an elementary or primitive approach to complexity at best or environmental determinism at worst. Experts in spatial technologies, conversely, have found it difficult to wrestle slippery humanities notions into software that demands precise locations and closed polygons.
At times, applying GIS to the humanities appears only to prove C. Snow's now-classic formulation of science and the humanities as two separate worlds.
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Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across time Indiana University Press Bolero Ozon. Bodenhamer , John Corrigan , Trevor M. Toward a Research Agenda. Suggestions for Further Reading.