The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253222176 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 222 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Taking GIS in new directions" according to Paul A. Baker. This book proposes the development of a spatial humanities that would revitalize and redefine scholarship by (re)introducing geographic concepts of space to the humanities. The power of GIS for the humanities, the editors propose, lies in its ability to integrate varied kinds of information from a common location, regardless of format, and to visualize the results in combinations of transparent layers on a map of the geography shared by the data. The authors propose taking what GIS offers in the way of tools, while urging new age
But in recent years a virtual explosion of new data, tools, and concepts has revolutionized our ability to examine the relationships, patterns, and contexts that emerge when the human world is examined through a spatial lens. In many important ways the volume succeeds in showing how spatial analysis might be essential for humanities scholarship and more specifically what some of the possibilities might be." Will Thomas, University of Nebraska"" "Spacewhether it be the space of the choreographer's dance floor, the artist's canvas, or the religious shrinehas always been important to humanist scholarship. The technical quality of the chapters is uniformly high:
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.. The Spatial Humanities aims to re-orientand perhaps revolutionizehumanities scholarship by critically engaging the technology and specifically directing it to the subject matter of the humanities. 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
David J. John Corrigan is Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Florida State University. Harris is Eberly Professor of Geography and Chair of the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University.. Bodenhamer is Executive Director of the Polis Center and Professor of History at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Trevor M