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GEOHUMANITIES
In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought charac-
terized by geography’s engagement with the humanities, and the humanities’ inte-
gration of place and the tools of geography into its studies.
GeoHumanities
maps this emerging intellectual terrain with 30 cutting-edge con-
tributions from internationally renowned scholars, architects, artists, activists, and
scientists. This book explores the humanities’ rapidly expanding engagement with
geography and the multimethodological inquiries that analyze the meanings of place,
and then reconstructs those meanings to provoke new knowledge as well as the pos-
sibility 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.
GeoHumanities
is essential reading for students wishing to understand the intellec-
tual trends and forces driving scholarship and research at the intersections of geogra-
phy 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.
Michael Dear
is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of
California, Berkeley.
Jim Ketchum
is Special Projects Coordinator and Newsletter Editor for the
Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington, D.C.
Sarah Luria
is Associate Professor of English at College of the Holy Cross in
Worcester, Massachusetts.
Douglas Richardson
is Executive Director of the Association of American
Geographers (AAG), Washington, D.C.
“This volume stands at the forefront of one of the most exciting new fields of
cross-disciplinary work. The editors have assembled a spectacular array of original
contributions from an impressive group of authors, whose work opens new routes into
the emerging field known as the geohumanities. It is bound to become a landmark
book.”
Anthony J. Cascardi, Director, Townsend Center for the Humanities, U.C. Berkeley,
USA.
“Making a compelling case for re-aligning geography with the humanities,
GeoHumanities
provides a series of richly-interwoven textual, visual and cartographic
essays to demonstrate the creative potential of new forms of artistic, literary and
historical engagement with place. Issuing a challenge to transcend disciplinary
boundaries, to forge novel connections between past and present, and to re-imagine
the world in novel ways, the contributors to
GeoHumanities
invite us to explore afresh
the politics and poetics of place.”
Professor Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield, UK.
GEOHUMANITIES
Art, history, text at the
edge of place
Edited by
Michael Dear, Jim Ketchum,
Sarah Luria, and Douglas Richardson
First published 2011
by Routledge
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ISBN 13: 978-0-415-58979-6 (hbk)
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