Digital methods, media and platforms are playing an increasingly critical role in the formation and analysis of place in the contemporary world but to date. At the same time, the so-called 'spatial turn' in the Digital Humanities (and the humanities and social sciences more broadly) and the maturing of the fields of Quantitative and Critical Geographical Information Systems have changed our perception of place, and our perception of how we interpret place, and its sister concept of space. The same applies to place created by, and derived from, historical and cultural sources.
Hence, the need for a book length study which traces a trajectory between historical/cultural constructions of place - what this author calls 'humanistic place' - and applications of the GeoWeb. This book provides such a trajectory by examining current approaches to the analysis and definition of place in three fundamental historical and cultural discourse spaces of the humanities, text, maps, and objects. Next to this, it examines how place is created in the contemporary digital world.
Author(s): Stuart Dunn
Series: Routledge Research in Digital Humanities
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: x+162
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgments
1. Spatial humanities in the digital age: The key debates
Introduction
A new label for an old problem
The spatial humanities and the limits of shallow mapping
From spatial turn to spatial literacy
Digital humanities; spatial humanities
The GeoWeb: the Internet’s own spatial turn
The humanities and GIS
Conclusion: from spatial humanities to deep mapping
References
2. The longue durée of the spatial humanities: Part I: Communicating place
Introduction
Place in the Ancient World
Case study: chorography and the humanizing of geography
Socially constructed place
Collectivizing place at the speed of light
Place as a social construct
Place and communication
From WWW to GeoWeb
Conclusions
References
3. The longue durée of the spatial humanities: Part II: The case of archaeology
Introduction
GIS and archaeology
Archaeology and neogeography
Conclusion
References
4. Text and place
Introduction: The textuality of space, and the spatiality of text
Collective text, collective place
Text as public space vs. private space
Communication
Organization
Reading
Conclusion
References
5. Spatial humanities and neogeography
Introduction: user generated place
Critical approaches to the contemporary GeoWeb
The GeoWeb and research: Citizen (Spatial) Humanists?
Motivations
Scale: the paradox of neogeography
Human bias meets geometric objectivity: cultural appropriations of the GeoWeb
The GeoWeb and the spatial humanities
Spatial humanities as crowdsourcing
Base maps
Conclusion
References
6. Spatial narrative
Introduction: the idea of spatial narrative
Spatial narrative and Plato’s Cave
Narratives of change
Narratives of power
Narratives of experience
Conclusion
References
7. The structure of geodata
Introduction
From paper to digital citation
The gazetteer as an imperial tool
Gazetteers and the WWW
Case study: Cyprus
Conclusion
References
8. Motion in place
Introduction
Embodied and disembodied place: the tensions of cartography
Shaping the landscape
Case study: corpse roads
Case study: Experimental archaeology and motion
Conclusion
References
9. Conclusion
Conclusion: towards an understanding of deep mapping in the humanities
References
Index
