New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 1458944
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199664139.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0-19-966413-9
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The three chapters Barker co-wrote with each of his Hestia project colleagues tackle the representation of space in ancient text from three different, interlocked, theoretical perspectives: Digital Humanities, Political Geography, and Classical Philology. Barker edited all the chapters in the book and was responsible for liaising between the contributors and Oxford University Press. In addition, he co-wrote the introduction (with Isaksen and Bouzarovski) which positions this project and the work of the other contributors (literary, archaeological and philosophical) within the context of the spatial turn in the Humanities and the digital turn in the emerging discipline of the Spatial Humanities.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This volume derived from Barker’s AHRC-funded Hestia project (2008-2010, 2013-2014) which developed a pioneering transdisciplinary methodology for studying the ways space is conceived and represented in a non-modern text, the Histories of Herodotus. Chapters were developed following a conference organised and hosted by Barker. As editor Barker provided a frame for each contribution, the overall scope of the volume and drew out connections between the chapters.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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