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Deep Mapping Edited by Les Roberts Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Humanities www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities Les Roberts (Ed.) Deep Mapping This book is a reprint of the Special Issue that appeared in the online, open access journal, Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) from 2015–2016 (available at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/DeepMapping). Guest Editor Les Roberts University of Liverpool UK Editorial Office MDPI AG Klybeckstrasse 64 Basel, Switzerland Publisher Shu-Kun Lin Assistant Editor Jie Gu 1. Edition 2016 MDPI Basel Beijing Wuhan Barcelona ISBN 978-3-03842-165-8 (Hbk) ISBN 978-3-03842-166-5 (PDF) © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. All articles in this volume are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. However, the dissemination and distribution of physical copies of this book as a whole is restricted to MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. III Table of Contents List of Contributors ............................................................................................................... V About the Guest Editor .........................................................................................................VI Les Roberts Preface: Deep Mapping and Spatial Anthropology Reprinted from: Humanities 2016, 5(1), 5 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/1/5 .............................................................................. VII Selina Springett Going Deeper or Flatter: Connecting Deep Mapping, Flat Ontologies and the Democratizing of Knowledge Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(4), 623-636 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/4/623 .............................................................................. 1 Denis Wood Mapping Deeply Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(3), 304-318 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/3/304 ............................................................................ 15 Silvia Loeffler Glas Journal: Deep Mappings of a Harbour or the Charting of Fragments, Traces and Possibilities Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(3), 457-475 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/3/457 ............................................................................ 30 Claire Reddleman The Deep Mapping of Pennine Street: A Cartographic Fiction Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(4), 760-774 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/4/760 ............................................................................ 49 Jos Smith Anticipating Deep Mapping: Tracing the Spatial Practice of Tim Robinson Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(3), 283-303 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/3/283 ............................................................................ 64 IV James Thurgill A Strange Cartography: Leylines, Landscape and “Deep Mapping” in the Works of Alfred Watkins Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(4), 637-652 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/4/637 ............................................................................ 86 Taien Ng-Chan Mapping out Patience: Cartography, Cinema and W.G. Sebald Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(4), 554-568 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/4/554 .......................................................................... 102 James Cateridge Deep Mapping and Screen Tourism: The Oxford of Harry Potter and Inspector Morse Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(3), 320-333 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/3/320 .......................................................................... 117 Laura Bissell and David Overend Regular Routes: Deep Mapping a Performative Counterpractice for the Daily Commute Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(3), 476-499 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/3/476 .......................................................................... 131 Les Roberts The Rhythm of Non-Places: Marooning the Embodied Self in Depthless Space Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(4), 569-599 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/4/569 .......................................................................... 155 Carenza Lewis Archaeological Excavation and Deep Mapping in Historic Rural Communities Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(3), 393-417 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/3/393 .......................................................................... 186 Giovanni Spissu Long Street: A Map of Post-Apartheid Cape Town Reprinted from: Humanities 2015, 4(3), 436-456 http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/3/436 .......................................................................... 212 V List of Contributors Laura Bissell: Contemporary Performance Practice, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew St., Glasgow G2 3DB, UK. James Cateridge: School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK. Carenza Lewis: School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK. Silvia Loeffler: Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Rhetoric House, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. Taien Ng-Chan: Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal H3G 1M8, PQ, Canada. David Overend: School of Media, Culture and Society, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr Campus, University Avenue, Ayr KA8 0SX, UK. Claire Reddleman: Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK. Les Roberts: Department of Communication and Media, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, 19 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 4ZG, UK. Jos Smith: College of Humanities, The Queen's Drive, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QH, UK. Giovanni Spissu: Department of Anthropology, Arthur Lewis Building School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13, UK. Selina Springett: Media, Music, Cultural Studies and Communications, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney 2109, Australia. James Thurgill: School of Media, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London SE1 6SB, UK. Denis Wood: Independent Scholar, 3205 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA. VI About the Guest Editor Les Roberts lectures in the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool. His research interests and practice fall within the areas of spatial anthropology, urban cultural studies, cultural memory, and spatial humanities. With a background in anthropology and cultural studies, his work explores the intersection between space, place, mobility, and memory with a particular focus on film and popular music cultures. He has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on these and related subject areas, and is the author, editor or co-editor of a series of books on culture, space and place. These include Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice and Performance (2015), Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place (2014), Sites of Popular Music Heritage (2014), Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-Between (2012), Film, Mobility and Urban Space: a Cinematic Geography of Liverpool (2012), and The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections (2010). VII Preface Deep Mapping and Spatial Anthropology Les Roberts Abstract: 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. Reprinted from Humanities. Cite as: Roberts, L. Deep Mapping and Spatial Anthropology. Humanities 2016, 5(1), 5. This Special Issue of Humanities on “Deep Mapping” came about as the result of an invitation to solicit and edit a collection of articles that address the state-of-the-art in scholarship on “spatial humanities”; but what is spatial humanities, exactly? Like its oft- related mothership descriptor “digital humanities”, spatial humanities is a label which, while having at least more surveyable parameters than its parent territory, similarly finds itself in want of further exposition. Beyond offering what is at best a rather generic sketching of a disciplinary or interdisciplinary field of research in which concerns with “space” and “place” are understood to be in some way prominent, spatial humanities engages and incites curiosity precisely on account of what it does not succeed in detailing with any great precision. It always necessitates a “follow-through” of some description, even if this is merely to make the disciplinary or intellectual provenance that little bit more pronounced. In much the same way that attempts to formalize