{{Short description|Interdisciplinary field of study}} {{about||the journal|Geohumanities (journal)}} {{Use British English|date=April 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} '''Geohumanities''', sometimes written '''GeoHumanities''' or '''The GeoHumanities''' is a term that has been used with varied meanings to describe areas of academic study.
The book ''GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place'' was published in 2011 edited by Michael Dear and others, and "explores the humanities' rapidly expanding engagement with geography, and the multi-methodological inquiries that analyze the meanings of place, and then reconstructs those meanings to provoke new knowledge as well as the possibility of altered political practices."<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Dear |editor1-first=Michael J. |title=GeoHumanities: art, history, text at the edge of place |date=2011 |publisher=Routledge |location=London New York |isbn=978-0-415-58979-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ozgbtAEACAAJ}}</ref> A reviewer in ''Time + Space'' described it as "a terrific introduction to a segment of interdisciplinary studies which seems to be on the verge of explosion",<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sullivan |first1=Rob |title=Geohumanities By Michael Dear Et Al. |journal=Society and Space |date=12 February 2012 |url=https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/geohumanities-by-michael-dear-et-al |access-date=19 April 2025}}</ref> while the reviewer for the ''Annals of the American Association of Geographers'' said: {{Quote|The contribution of the book lies in its "breaching" (as the editors put it) of the conventional boundaries between geography and the humanities rather than the conventional liberal-arts-college sense of a set of discrete fields engaging with one another for mutual benefit. It is, if you like, trans- rather than interdisciplinary.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Agnew |first1=John |title=Book Reviews: GeoHumanities ... |journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers |date=2012 |volume=102 |issue=2 |pages=514–16 |doi=10.1080/00045608.2011.650551 |jstor=41412791 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41412791 |access-date=19 April 2025|url-access=subscription }}</ref>}}
The GeoHumanities Special Interest Group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations was established in 2013, focusing on "geospatial and spatial-temporal perspectives in the digital humanities".<ref>{{cite web |title=GeoHumanities SIG – A Special Interest Group of the ADHO |url=https://geohumanities.org/ |access-date=19 April 2025}}</ref>
The journal ''Geohumanities'' has been published since 2015 by the American Association of Geographers, and "span[s] conceptual and methodological debates in geography and the humanities; critical reflections on analog and digital artistic productions; and new scholarly interactions occurring at the intersections of geography and multiple humanities disciplines".<ref>{{cite web |title=GeoHumanities |url=https://www.aag.org/journal/geohumanities/ |website=AAG |access-date=19 April 2025}}</ref>
The Centre for the GeoHumanities of Royal Holloway, University of London (established in or before 2016<ref>{{cite web |title=Cosgrove Lecture Series |url=https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-education/research/research-environment/research-institutes-and-centres/centre-for-the-geohumanities/cosgrove-lecture-series/ |website=www.royalholloway.ac.uk |access-date=19 April 2025 |language=en-gb}}</ref>) describes itself as {{quote|a major initiative linking arts and humanities scholars and practitioners, geographers and the creative, cultural and heritage sectors. It showcases and fosters work with an arts and humanities orientation on issues that have a strong geographical resonance, such as space, place, landscape and environment.<ref name="rh-home">{{cite web |title=Centre for the GeoHumanities |url=https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-education/research/research-environment/research-institutes-and-centres/centre-for-the-geohumanities/ |website=www.royalholloway.ac.uk |access-date=19 April 2025 |language=en-gb}}</ref>}} and states: {{quote|The GeoHumanities also have a longer intellectual history rooted in the pre-disciplinary origins of Geography as ‘earth writing’. Geography has never been the exclusive preserve of geographers and has always posed a challenge to modern disciplinary thinking.<ref name="rh-about">{{cite web |title=About us |url=https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-education/research/research-environment/research-institutes-and-centres/centre-for-the-geohumanities/about-us/ |website=www.royalholloway.ac.uk |publisher=Centre for the GeoHumanities |access-date=19 April 2025 |language=en-gb}}</ref> }}
{{As of|April 2025}} the word ''geohumanitities'' does not appear in the online ''Oxford English Dictionary''.<ref>Online search of www.oed.com on 19 April 2025 produces zero hits.</ref>
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