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]
for questions regarding the submission process or the issue
guest editor Dr. Les Roberts [log in to unmask]
for questions regarding the appropriateness of the content or
style of your manuscript.
Humanities
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further details on the submission process, please see the
instructions for authors at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/instructions
Many thanks.