Deep Mapping and Spatial Anthropology

Bibliographic Data

ID8075386
AuthorsLes Robert (0000-0002-1753-4872, University of Liverpool, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume5
Issue1
Pages5-5
Publication date2016-01-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHumanities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/h5010005
OpenAlexW2238089032
LanguageEN
Citations received33
References cited16

This paper provides an introduction to the Humanities Special Issue on “Deep Mapping”. It sets out the rationale for the collection and explores the broad-ranging nature of perspectives and practices that fall within the “undisciplined” interdisciplinary domain of spatial humanities. Sketching a cross-current of ideas that have begun to coalesce around the concept of “deep mapping”, the paper argues that rather than attempting to outline a set of defining characteristics and “deep” cartographic features, a more instructive approach is to pay closer attention to the multivalent ways deep mapping is performatively put to work. Casting a critical and reflexive gaze over the developing discourse of deep mapping, it is argued that what deep mapping “is” cannot be reduced to the otherwise a-spatial and a-temporal fixity of the “deep map”. In this respect, as an undisciplined survey of this increasing expansive field of study and practice, the paper explores the ways in which deep mapping can engage broader discussion around questions of spatial anthropology

Cartography · Data science · Deep learning · Epistemology · Expansive · Field (mathematics · Gaze · Geography · Reflexivity · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Travel Writing and Literature · Artificial Intelligence · Philosophy