Introduction

Abstract

In recent years there has been evidence across the humanities disciplines of a growing awareness of the relevance of space and geography, often referred to as a ‘spatial turn’. This has been assisted by new geo-mapping technologies and the productive relationships between locative media and local narrative or testimony (for instance, oral, urban and social history), that have received some attention from scholars of new media. In recent years a fertile set of dialogues have also emerged between literary studies and cultural geography, ‘in which the valences of space and place are open to processes of contestation and reimagining’ (book description, in Alexander and Cooper, 2013).