What Might GeoHumanities Do? Possibilities, Practices, Publics, and Politics

Abstract

Harriet Hawkins, Lou Cabeen, Felicity Callard, Noel Castree, Stephen Daniels, Dydia DeLyser, Hugh Munro Neely & Peta MitchellHARRIET HAWKINS is a Reader in the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham (Surrey), TW20 0EX, United Kingdom. E-mail: . Her research interests include the geographies of art works and art worlds, aesthetics, art and environmental change, and theorizations and practices of collaboration and interdisciplinarity. She is committed to working with creative practitioners, institutions, and publics as part of her research practice and to producing outputs that work through modes other than written text.LOU CABEEN is an artist living and working in Seattle where she explores the visual and tactile connections between textile, text and topography. E-mail: . Until recently she was an Associate Professor in the School of Art at University of Washington. Her most recent exhibition is The Needle’s Eye, a group exhibition of contemporary embroidery jointly produced by the National Museum and Museum of Decorative Arts in Norway.FELICITY CALLARD is Director of Hubbub, the first residency of The Hub at Wellcome Collection, London, NW1 2BE, United Kingdom. Hubbub comprises an international network of social scientists, humanities researchers, scientists and artists; their interdisciplinary collaborations are investigating rest and its opposites in mental health, neuroscience, the arts and the everyday. Felicity is Reader in Social Science for Medical Humanities at Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom. E-mail: .NOEL CASTREE is Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom, and the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. E-mail: . His current research examines how the social sciences and humanities are being drawn into global change research.STEPHEN DANIELS is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom, and a Fellow of the British Academy. E-mail: . He was Director of the AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme between 2005 and 2012, and currently holds a Senior Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for British art.DYDIA DELYSER is a feminist, qualitative cultural-historical geographer at California State University, Fullerton, CA 92834. E-mail: . Her research attempts to embed scholarship, self, and community in creative ways.HUGH MUNRO NEELY is an archivist, film historian and documentary filmmaker affiliated with the Institute for Film Education, Culver City, CA 90230. E-mail: . He has worked on research projects at a dozen different film archives in Europe and America, and is currently writing a biography of Czech-American actor and filmmaker Hugo Haas.PETA MITCHELL is Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty and Chief Investigator in Queensland University of Technology’s Digital Media Research Centre, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059, Australia. E-mail: . Her fellowship project is focused on geocultural research and the digital spatial turn, and her research has broadly focused on the GeoHumanities, including media geography, literary geography, and neogeography.This article draws together seven practitioners and scholars from across the diffuse GeoHumanities community to reflect on the pasts and futures of the GeoHumanities. Far from trying to circle the intellectual wagons around orthodoxies of practice or intent, or to determine possibilities in advance, these contributions and the accompanying commentary seek to create connections across the diverse communities of knowledge and practice that constitute the GeoHumanities. Ahead of these six contributions a commentary situates these discussions within wider concerns with interdisciplinarity and identifies three common themes—possibilities practices, and publics—worthy of further discussion and reflection. The introduction concludes by identifying a fourth theme, politics, that coheres these three themes in productive and important ways.

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