I finally found time to grab a few books from the library that have looked interesting:
The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship (Indiana 2010)
Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities (Routledge 2011)
GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place (Routledge 2011) (this link is a review)
(let’s see if I can find time to read them)…
I’m particularly interested to gauge the extent to which geographers are engaging with the literary text without reducing it to content, something that seems to have been a temptation for David Harvey in particular. Just having reread the introduction to Engaging Film–a great book, but one whose introduction attempts to reinvent the wheel in that it simplifies the notion of film as a “representation of reality” and then seeks to provide an “antiessentialist” vision of film that of course can be traced back to the very…
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The current theory of continental drift provides a good model for understanding terrestrial processes through history. However, while plate tectonics is able to successfully shed light on processes up to 3 billion years ago, the theory isn’t sufficient in explaining the dynamics of Earth and crust formation before that point and through to the earliest formation of planet, some 4.6 billion years ago. This is the conclusion of Tomas Naæraa of the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, a part of the University of Copenhagen. His new doctoral dissertation has just been published by the journal Nature.
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