• Journal of Geo-information Science
  • Vol. 22, Issue 5, 912 (2020)
Kun QIN1、1, Hui LIN2、2、*, Di HU3、3, Gang XU1、1, Xiaoxiang ZHANG4、4, Binbin LU1、1, and Xinyue YE5、5
Author Affiliations
  • 1.武汉大学遥感信息工程学院,武汉 430079
  • 1School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University,Wuhan 430079, China
  • 2.江西师范大学地理与环境学院,南昌 330022
  • 2School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
  • 3.南京师范大学地理科学学院,南京210023
  • 3School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 4.河海大学水文水资源学院,南京 210098
  • 4College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
  • 5.美国新泽西理工大学计算机学院,纽瓦克 07102,美国
  • 5Department of Information Systems, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark 07102, USA
  • show less
    DOI: 10.12082/dqxxkx.2020.200232 Cite this Article
    Kun QIN, Hui LIN, Di HU, Gang XU, Xiaoxiang ZHANG, Binbin LU, Xinyue YE. A Review of Spatially Integrated Humanities and Social Sciences[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2020, 22(5): 912 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Humanities and social sciences are undergoing the transformation of quantification and spatialization. The Geographical Information Science (GIS), with powerful functions of spatial data management, spatial analysis and geo-visualization, has been widely used in humanities and social sciences in the era of big data, resulting in an emerging inter-disciplinary field that is Spatial Integrated Humanities and Social Sciences (SIHSS). SIHSS can provide new comprehensive solutions to practical problems that are difficult to solve in a single discipline. Since the first forum on spatially integrated humanities and social sciences was held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009, this new inter-discipline has developed vigorously and achieved significant progress. We comprehensively summarized the progress of this new field on the tenth forum, held at Wuhan University in 2019. GIS has been fully integrated with humanities and social sciences, including philosophy, history, literature, art, sociology, economics, politics, and management science. On the one hand, scholars and experts in the field of GIS are actively expanding their research fields to provide spatial and visualization technologies for scholars in fields of humanities and social sciences. On the other hand, scholars in fields of humanities and social sciences are actively learning GIS technologies and bringing spatial thinking into their research. Meanwhile, some open platforms, codes, and tools customized for scholars in fields of humanities and social sciences are constantly emerging. In this paper, based on a comprehensive summary of the recent progress of SIHSS, we first investigated the thought and framework of the research on SIHSS, and then introduced the progress in each detailed direction of SIHSS, including history integrated GIS, literature integrated GIS, linguistics integrated GIS, GIS and philosophy, human dynamics, human geography, politics GIS and, GIS and management science, spatial econometrics, geo-computation for social science, spatial social networks and spatial interaction networks, geography of crime, geography of public health, etc. We also summarized methodologies for the research on SIHSS, including spatial thinking, cognitive psychology and spatial cognition, spatial visualization and virtual geographic analysis, and GIS platform development, etc. Finally, we proposed research directions of SIHSS in the future, including further improving the research framework and developing new methods of SIHSS, combining perspectives of map, data, spatial analysis and visualization, developing online platforms and promoting open data and open source tools, further expanding the application of GIS in humanities and social sciences, and strengthening education and training on SIHSS. We conclude that GIS is about to play an increasingly important role in humanities and social sciences and SHISS will also achieve greater advancement and achievement.
    Kun QIN, Hui LIN, Di HU, Gang XU, Xiaoxiang ZHANG, Binbin LU, Xinyue YE. A Review of Spatially Integrated Humanities and Social Sciences[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2020, 22(5): 912
    Download Citation