Week 1

Spatial History: concepts & approaches

READINGS

1. Richard White, “What is Spatial History” (2010)
2. Jo Guldi, What is the Spatial Turn?, in Spatial Humanities (Scholars’ Lab, 2011)  [only ‘Introduction’ & ‘The Spatial Turn in History’]
3. Ian Gregory, Don DeBats, and Don Lafreniere, “Spatial history, history & GIS,” in The Routledge Companion to Spatial History, ed Ian Gregory, Don DeBats, and Don Lafreniere (Routledge, 2018).
4. Trevor M Harris, John Corrigan, and David J. Bodenhamer. “Challenges for the Spatial Humanities: Toward a Research Agenda,” in The Spatial Humanities, ed David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris (Indiana University Press, 2010), 167–76.
5. John Agnew, “Space and Place,” in John A. Agnew and David N. Livingstone (eds.) Sage Handbook of Geographical Knowledge (London: Sage Publications, 2011).
6. Tim Cresswell, “Introduction: Defining Place,” in Place: An Introduction (Wiley, 2014)

RESOURCE

• “DH GIS Projects,” Anterotesis (a list compiled by John Levon, containing 229 projects, c January 2021)
• “How We Work,” Imperiia: a spatial history of the Russian Empire.