Materials for Discussion Today

• Focal Readings
• Background: a few pieces to provoke thought about the history and intellectual traditions of mapping:
• Albert Borgmann, Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (1999) - Introduction
• Fernand Braudel and Annales historiography (e.g., Table of Contents [PDF] from The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1976)
• Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias" [PDF]" (1967)
• Jason Farman, "Map Interfaces and the Production of Locative Media Space" [PDF] (2015)
• Terrigal High School, New South Wales, Australia, "Introduction to Aboriginal Art" [slideshow, PPT] [course password required]
• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (Verso, 2005), pp. 35-64 
• Ian N. Gregory and David Cooper, "Geographical Technologies and the Interdisciplinary Study of Peoples and Cultures of the Past" [PDF] (2013)
• Ian N. Gregory, "Different Places, Different Stories: Infant Mortality Decline in England and Wales, 1851–1911" [PDF] (2008)
• Zephyr Frank, "Layers, Flows And Intersections: Jeronymo José De Mello And Artisan Life In Rio De Janeiro, 1840s-1880s" [PDF] [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server]
• Barbara Piatti, et al., "Mapping Literature: Towards a Geography of Fiction" [PDF] (in Cartography and Art, ed. William Cartwright, et al., 2009) [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server]
• See also the project associated with this essay: A Literary Atlas of Europe.

• Other Readings
• Sites to Browse:
• The Spatial History Project (including Richard White, "What is Spatial History?" [2010])
• ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
• HyperCities
• Neatline Projects (see demos on Neatline site)
• Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761
• Google Lit Trips (using the downloadable .kmz files that overlay literary maps over satellite maps requires Google Earth)
• See also Walking Ulysses ("Enter into the world of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, by following its characters as they walk the streets of Dublin on June 16, 1904")
• David Rumsey, "Reading Historical Maps Historically: How Spatial Technologies Can Enable Close, Distant and Dynamic Interpretations" (opening keynote at DH 2011 conference) (Youtube video; keynote begins at 37 min., 50 sec. in video) (See also David Rumsey Map Collection)
• Maria Popova, "An Atlas of Alternative Maps" (2014)
• John Klima, Project Gallery
• See also Rita Raley, "Statistical Material: Globalization and the Digital Art of John Klima" (2003) [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server]