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

By Jim Ketchum, Douglas Richardson, Sarah Luria, et al.

Geohumanities identifies a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography's engagement with the humanities, and the humanities' integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies. With this cutting edge book, an international collaboration of scholars, architects, artists, activists, scientists and writers map this emerging intellectual terrain.

This volume explores the creative zone at the edge of the humanities' rapidly expanding engagement with geography, and the multi-methodological inquiries that analyze the meanings of place, and then reconstruct those meanings to provoke new knowledge as well as the possibility of altered political practices. It is no coincidence that the geohumanities are forcefully emerging at a time of immense intellectual and social change. The book's contributors 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415589800
• ISBN13: 9780415589802
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"