ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we draw on an ongoing interdisciplinary conversation about cartography, mapping and landscape description. We each inhabit different disciplinary arenas in the academy (classics and archaeology of the ancient and late-ancient Mediterranean, Renaissance and Ottoman Studies, contemporary cultural studies and critical cartography, and environmental studies and critical approaches to geospatial representation). In this conversation, we explore ways in which visions and versions of chorography and cartography inform various approaches to the spatial humanities. How do different historical contexts and disciplinary imaginations of place and space draw differentially on concepts of cartography and chorography? What are the conditions and contexts for these hermeneutics? And what kind of interdisciplinary practices might they inform?
