Geohumanities


Geohumanities, sometimes written GeoHumanities or The GeoHumanities is a term has been used with varied meanings to describe areas of academic study.
The book GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place was published in 2011 edited by Michael Dear and others, and "explores the humanities' rapidly expanding engagement with geography, and the multi-methodological inquiries that analyze the meanings of place, and then reconstructs those meanings to provoke new knowledge as well as the possibility of altered political practices." A reviewer in Time + Space described it as "a terrific introduction to a segment of interdisciplinary studies which seems to be on the verge of explosion", while the reviewer for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers said:
The GeoHumanities Special Interest Group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations was established in 2013, focussing on "geospatial and spatial-temporal perspectives in the digital humanities".
The journal Geohumanities has been published since 2015 by the American Association of Geographers, and "span conceptual and methodological debates in geography and the humanities; critical reflections on analog and digital artistic productions; and new scholarly interactions occurring at the intersections of geography and multiple humanities disciplines".
The Centre for the GeoHumanities of Royal Holloway, University of London describes itself as
and states:
the word geohumanitities does not appear in the online Oxford English Dictionary.