Mapping the Imagined South
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This document discusses a project that uses GIS mapping to analyze how contemporary Southern cookbooks define and depict the American South. It notes that the number of cookbooks marketed as Southern has significantly increased in recent decades. The project aims to map locations mentioned in cookbooks, analyze authors' definitions of "Southern," and evaluate claims of authenticity. The presenter collected data from several cookbooks and learned GIS mapping tools over the summer. While the original mapping software had limitations, the presenter believes the interactive data visualization tool Tableau may help better publish and collect the project's data.
Mapping the Imagined South
- 1. Mapping the Imagined South: GIS Mapping of Contemporary Southern Cookbooks Carrie Helms Tippen Chatham University ctippen@chatham.edu @chtippen
- 2. Questions of this Project • Rapid growth in cookbooks marketed as “Southern.” (Lily Kelting, “The Entanglement of Nostalgia and Utopia in Contemporary Southern Food Cookbooks”) • 1990-‐2000: 2% of American cookbooks have “South” in the title • 2000—2010: 3% • 2010-‐2015: 7.5% • Where is the South? • What do writers mean when they say “Southern”? • Who do writers mean when they say “Southerners”? • What supports writers’ claims of authenticity?
- 3. Digital Humanities Summer Institute • University of Victoria, Summer 2015 • ArcMAP, QGIS • How to build an effective database for collecting and coding place names and coordinates. • Density Mapping
- 4. The State of the Project • 8 complete data sets. • 4 in progress. • 3 more by September 1. • Targeted for online journal Southern Spaces series “Digital Spaces.”
- 5. Data Collecting • Coordinates from Google Maps • Qualitative Description • Page, Chapter, Author • Multiple Descriptions • Groups
- 6. Limitations • ArcMAP only available for PC, in one computer lab on my campus. • ArcMAP only makes ”still” images, not interactive. • ArcMAP is hard.
- 7. Mapping with Tableau Sean Brock, Heritage. 2014. Hugh Acheson, A New Turn in the South. 2011.
- 8. Counting with Tableau Sean Brock, Heritage. 2014. Hugh Acheson, A New Turn in the South. 2011.
- 9. Comparing with Tableau Hugh Acheson, A New Turn in the South. 2011. Sean Brock, Heritage. 2014.
- 10. Sharing with Tableau? • The ability to share online and allow viewers to query data IF they have permission as a Tableau user. • A better way to publish interactively? • A faster way to collect data? Email: ctippen@chatham.edu Twitter: @chtippen