Visualizing Modernist Magazines with Geographic Information Systems (GIS):

Abstract

Recent modernist scholarship has been concerned with tying textual and historical claims to the specificity of place. Through this renewed interest, we see a continued interest within modernist studies in new literary frameworks that move outward in their scale and scope. Postcolonial theorists have argued for a return to the scale of the geological and geographical in the “Anthropocene” era. Whether the impetus arises from postcolonial studies, Marxist critical geography, ecocriticism, or posthumanist approaches to geography, a number of contemporary frameworks aim to chart new geographies for literary studies in the literal and figurative senses.

The Map as Object: Working Beyond Bounded Realities and Mapping for Social Change

“…In the broader field of geography, GIS has been widely used to map demographic and statistical data (Pacheco & Velez, 2009). Traditional uses of geographic mapping with GIS are varied and include such wide uses as mapping universities degree programmes (Malhotra & Vlahovic, 2011), mapping historic artefacts (Xing, Chen, & Zhou, 2015), and planning community interventions (Smith & Miller, 2013)see Bodenhamer, Corrigan, & Harris (2010) or Hankins (2014) for more complete histories of GIS.…”

“…University faculty use GIS with students outside the field of geography to promote critical thinking skills, community work, and hands-on learning (Malhotra & Vlahovic, 2011;Pacheco & Velez, 2009). Hankins (2014) cited several examples of partnerships between university faculty and students using visual mapping technologies. For example, students marked 19th century periodical presses as well as the spread of the railroad from 1840-1870 to connect patterns of transportation with spread of information (Hankins, 2014).…”

“…Hankins (2014) cited several examples of partnerships between university faculty and students using visual mapping technologies. For example, students marked 19th century periodical presses as well as the spread of the railroad from 1840-1870 to connect patterns of transportation with spread of information (Hankins, 2014).…”