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Dear colleagues, A final (and extended) call for contributions to a /Humanities /journal special issue on “Deep Mapping” (_http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/DeepMapping_) Please note deadline for submissions is now *31 July 2015*. There is no specified word limit for papers so shorter contributions are also welcome, as are multimedia submissions. This is a proposal for a Special Issue of the journal, /Humanities/, on the theme of “deep mapping”. For some time, there has been much discussion of the impacts of a “spatial turn” in arts and humanities disciplines. The more far-reaching these impacts have become, the broader the scope of what a more “spatially inflected” humanities might, and indeed does, look like. Yet, while the breadth of scholarship to which we can attach the provisional label “spatial humanities” has, not surprisingly, foregrounded issues of space and place, questions of time and temporality equally underpin theoretical and practical interventions that are advancing research in this area. The idea of “deep mapping”, which, as a term, has its origins in the writings of William Least Heat-Moon (but as an idea, “deep mapping” has a much deeper provenance), is one that finds resonance across spatial humanities research more generally. While not necessarily couched in such terms, deep mapping speaks to a rich profusion of perspectives that are, in some shape or form, engaged with the mapping or tapping of a layered and multifaceted sense of place, narrative, history, and memory. From Historical GIS, to developments in literary or cinematic geography, or work on popular music heritage and the characterization of place, to approaches that fall under a more generic banner of “psychogeography” or spatial anthropology, deep mapping encompasses a loose set of orientations and practices that give fuller expression to what we have come to understand as “spatial humanities”. Contributions for this Special Issue are therefore sought from a wide range of fields that address questions that engage with or respond to a conceptual focus on “deep mapping”. Papers that more specifically explore themes of cultural memory in relation to deep mapping or spatial humanities research are particularly welcomed. Contact the assistant editor Ms. Jie Gu at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> for questions regarding the submission process or the issue guest editor Dr. Les Roberts [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> for questions regarding the appropriateness of the content or style of your manuscript. Humanitiesis fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/. No Article Processing Charges (APC) apply for well-prepared manuscripts. For more information please visithttp://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/ <http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/>. For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/instructions Many thanks. -- Les Roberts (Dr) Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies Department of Communication and Media School of the Arts 19 Abercromby Square University of Liverpool Liverpool. L69 7ZG. UK tel: +44 151 794 3102 www.liv.ac.uk/communication-and-media/staff/les-roberts/ <http://www.liv.ac.uk/communication-and-media/staff/les-roberts/> www.liminoids.com/ <http://www.liminoids.com/> liverpool.academia.edu/LesRoberts <http://liverpool.academia.edu/LesRoberts> FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan