Gwilym Eades
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gwilym Eades |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gwilym |
| FAMILY NAME | Eades |
| SIGNATURE | EADES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7426-8673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Maps
T oponymic constraints in Wemindji
Research by Eugene Hunn (1996) suggested that toponymic density and population density are roughly equal for a range of indigenous groups across North America. In Wemindji, Quebec, historic and current toponymic and population data support Hunn's observation. I demonstrate that toponymic constraints are real by holding the number of traditional toponyms (898) as a background constant, and estimating the growth of Wemindji's population from 1960 t…
Cree Ethnogeography
This paper explores the nature of Wemindji Cree territorial identity. It uses a mixed methods approach combining qualitative geographic information systems (GIS) and ethnography. GIS was used to categorize a database of Wemindji Cree place names within local and traditional naming systems. The resulting maps produce a picture of Wemindji Cree life as a ‘view from nowhere’ disconnected from lived life on the ground. Participant observation of life…
Determining environmental determinism
This commentary is a direct response to the Forum article ‘Environmentalist thinking and/in geography’ by Radcliffe et al. (2010) . Two main problems are addressed: the perpetuation of a false analogy between cultural and biological evolution, and a misunderstanding of memes. I review the literature and summarize the main issues in cultural and biological evolution and in the related field of memetics, noting ways in which the Forum’s authors’ ar…
An Apollonian appreciation of Google Earth
Myth, Artifice, Nets
Second, maps are demonstrated by Wood and Fels to be texts, whose ideologies are conveyed by way of the ‘‘stuff’’ around and within the map. In this way, an ‘‘epimap’’ is added to a ‘‘perimap’’ to make a ‘‘paramap,’’ which fixes perception upon the second-order message of the map, not just the map itself. The early work of Roland Barthes makes an appearance here: the structural Barthes interested in structural analyses of texts, narratives, and p…
Determining environmental determinism
This commentary is a direct response to the Forum article ‘Environmentalist thinking and/in geography’ by Radcliffe et al. (2010) . Two main problems are addressed: the perpetuation of a false analogy between cultural and biological evolution, and a misunderstanding of memes. I review the literature and summarize the main issues in cultural and biological evolution and in the related field of memetics, noting ways in which the Forum’s authors’ ar…
Maps
Cree Ethnogeography
This paper explores the nature of Wemindji Cree territorial identity. It uses a mixed methods approach combining qualitative geographic information systems (GIS) and ethnography. GIS was used to categorize a database of Wemindji Cree place names within local and traditional naming systems. The resulting maps produce a picture of Wemindji Cree life as a ‘view from nowhere’ disconnected from lived life on the ground. Participant observation of life…
An Apollonian appreciation of Google Earth
Myth, Artifice, Nets
Second, maps are demonstrated by Wood and Fels to be texts, whose ideologies are conveyed by way of the ‘‘stuff’’ around and within the map. In this way, an ‘‘epimap’’ is added to a ‘‘perimap’’ to make a ‘‘paramap,’’ which fixes perception upon the second-order message of the map, not just the map itself. The early work of Roland Barthes makes an appearance here: the structural Barthes interested in structural analyses of texts, narratives, and p…
An Apollonian appreciation of Google Earth
Cree Ethnogeography
This paper explores the nature of Wemindji Cree territorial identity. It uses a mixed methods approach combining qualitative geographic information systems (GIS) and ethnography. GIS was used to categorize a database of Wemindji Cree place names within local and traditional naming systems. The resulting maps produce a picture of Wemindji Cree life as a ‘view from nowhere’ disconnected from lived life on the ground. Participant observation of life…
Determining environmental determinism
This commentary is a direct response to the Forum article ‘Environmentalist thinking and/in geography’ by Radcliffe et al. (2010) . Two main problems are addressed: the perpetuation of a false analogy between cultural and biological evolution, and a misunderstanding of memes. I review the literature and summarize the main issues in cultural and biological evolution and in the related field of memetics, noting ways in which the Forum’s authors’ ar…
Maps
T oponymic constraints in Wemindji
Research by Eugene Hunn (1996) suggested that toponymic density and population density are roughly equal for a range of indigenous groups across North America. In Wemindji, Quebec, historic and current toponymic and population data support Hunn's observation. I demonstrate that toponymic constraints are real by holding the number of traditional toponyms (898) as a background constant, and estimating the growth of Wemindji's population from 1960 t…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works)