Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 817 g
Landscapes of Time and Place
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 817 g
Reihe: Historical Geography and Geosciences
ISBN: 978-3-030-37568-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Time as a multi-scaled concept (again, broadly conceived) is the pivot around which the interdisciplinary contributions to this volume revolve. In The Landscape of Time (2002) the historian John Lewis Gaddis posits: “What if we were to think of history as a kind of mapping?” He links the ancient practice of mapmaking with the three-part conception of time (past, present, and future). Gaddis presents the practices of cartography and historical narrative as attempts to manage infinitely complex subjects by imposing abstract grids to frame the phenomena being examined— longitude and latitude to frame landscapes and, occidental and oriental temporal scales to frame timescapes. Gaddis contends that if the past is a landscape and history is the way we represent it, then it follows that pattern recognition constitutes a primary form of human perception, one that can be parsed empirically, statistically and phenomenologically. In turn, this volume reasons that literary, historical, cartographical, scientific, mathematical, and counterfactual narratives create their own spatio-temporal frames of reference. Confluences between the poetic and the positivistic; the empirical and the impressionistic; the epic and the episodic; and the chronologic and the chorologic, can be identified and studied by integrating practices in historical geography, GIScience / geoscience and textual analysis. As a result, new perceptions and insights, facilitating further avenues of scholarship into uncharted waters emerge. The various ways in which geographical, historical and textual perspectives are hermeneutically woven together in this volume illuminates the different methods with which to explore terrae incognitaes of knowledge beyond the shores of their own separate disciplinary islands.
Zielgruppe
Graduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Geowissenschaften Geologie GIS, Geoinformatik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
Weitere Infos & Material
Part I: Landscape, Time, Text.- Ch.1 Ghost Cathedral of the Blackland Prairie: Waxahachie, Texas, Places in the Heart and the Superconducting Super Collider.- Ch.2 Digital Mapping and the Narrative Stratigraphy of Iceland.- Ch.3 Dead Men Tell Tales: History and Science at Duffy’s Cut.- Ch.4 ‘Please Mention the Green Book:’ The Negro Motorist Green Book as Critical GIS.- Part II: Cultures, Networks and Mobilities.- Ch.5 Queer Cartographies: Urban Redevelopment and the Changing Sexual Geography of Postwar San Francisco.- Ch.6 Revisiting the Walking City: A Geospatial Examination of the Journey to Work.- Ch.7 Corruption and Development of Atlanta Streetcar Lines in the Nineteenth Century: A Historical GIS Perspective.- Ch.8 “A brother Orangeman the world over”: Migration and the Geography of the Orange Order in the United States.- Part III: Climate, Weather, Environment.- Ch.9 Mining Weather and Climate Data from the Diary of a Forty-Niner.- Ch.10 Unmappable Variables: GIS and the Complicated Historical Geography of Water in the Rio Grande Project.- Ch.11 Supplying the Conquest: A Geospatial Visualization and Interpretation of Available Environmental Resources at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.-Ch.12 Mapping the Irish Rath (Ringfort): Landscape Settlement Patterns in the Early Medieval Period.- Part IV: Place, Philology, History.- Ch.13 Mapping Power: Using HGIS and Linked Open Data to Study Ancient Greek Garrison Communities.- Ch.14 The Preservation of Paradox: Bismarck Towers as National Metaphor and Local Reality.- Ch.15 Mapping the Historical Transformation of Beijing’s Regional Naming System.- Ch.16 Geographical Enrichment of Historical Landscapes: Spatial Integration, Geo-Narrative, Spatial Narrative, and Deep Mapping.