GIS and telescopic reading: between spatial and digital humanities

Unamuno, Enrique Santos

doi:10.1007/s11059-017-0381-1

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“…In this paper I will be discussing my methodology for constructing a GIS-based online 'deep map' (Bodenhamer et. al., 2015;Unamuno, 2017) of a small wooded region in the highlands of Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada. My argument in the paper is reflexive, and concerns how a social-science paradigm should, and inevitably does, render even the most 'objective' of mapping exercises interpretive and in some measure constitutive of its object.…”

Section: Deep Mapping As Interpretive Practicementioning

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Mapping as Making Space: The Case of a Nature–Culture Hybrid

Bantjes¹

2018

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The once-settled 'wilderness' region that is the subject of this paper is marked by historic layers of physical inscription and erasure -a nature-culture hybrid that offers a readable surface with temporal depth. In this paper I discuss the mapping of these spatial surfaces as an interpretive and constructive practice. In the process of searching for longabandoned farms in a designated 'wilderness' landscape, my collaborators and I were reading topography and vegetation, aerial photos and archival documents as though all were obscure texts which confronted us with silences, anomalies and uncertainties. In writing up this discursive work in the form of an online GIS map hyperlinked to a web of texts and documentary images, I argue that we were both recording and constituting the layers of meaning that make the landscape. I am interested in the subtle power dynamic of such map-making. We were re-reading what the state has designated as 'wilderness' or 'nature' as, instead, non-nature -a cultural artefact. Yet I am sensible of the tension between my collaborators, for whom the map articulates ancestral claims to the landscape, and myself, happy to see the state protect, under the guise of 'wilderness', what I see as a nature-culture hybrid.

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Mapping as Making Space: The Case of a Nature–Culture Hybrid

Bantjes¹

2018

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Huddles or Hurdles? Spatial Barriers to Collective Gathering in the Aftermath of the Women’s March

Farzad-Phillips

2020

Women's Studies in Communication

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La tentation de la carte. Défis méthodologiques et techniques de la réalisation d’un atlas culturel historique

Debroux¹

2020

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Les systèmes d’information géographique (SIG) permettant de localiser, d’analyser et de représenter des données spatiales ont transformé en cartographes de nombreux chercheurs. Cet article s’intéresse à ce phénomène en présentant un projet d’atlas culturel historique mené par une équipe multidisciplinaire, lequel illustre les difficultés soulevées par les projets de cartographie numérique et leurs limites, mais aussi leur apport pour les recherches transdisciplinaires.

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GIS and telescopic reading: between spatial and digital humanities

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Mapping as Making Space: The Case of a Nature–Culture Hybrid

Mapping as Making Space: The Case of a Nature–Culture Hybrid

Huddles or Hurdles? Spatial Barriers to Collective Gathering in the Aftermath of the Women’s March

La tentation de la carte. Défis méthodologiques et techniques de la réalisation d’un atlas culturel historique

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