Recalibrating the Quantitative Revolution in Geography: Travels, Networks, Translations

ISBN-13: 9780367640866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 232 str.

Gyuris, Ferenc

Opis

This book brings together international research on the quantitative revolution in geography. It offers perspectives from a wide range of contexts and national traditions that decenter the Anglo-centric discussions.

Spis treści

1) Introduction: Recalibrating the quantitative revolution in geography 2) In the footsteps of the quantitative revolution? Performing spatial science in the Netherlands 3) Geographies of quantitative geographies in Brazil: two versions of a revolution 4) Translation of quantitative geography in the Brazilian journals: the cases of the Boletim Geográfico 1966-1976) and Revista Brasileira de Geografia (1970-1982) 5) Digitality: origins, or the stories we tell ourselves 6) Multivariate functions: heterogeneous realities of quantitative geography in Hungary 7) A social history of quantitative geography in France from the 1970s to the 1990s: an overview of the blossoming of a multifaceted tradition  8) How landscape became ecosystem: the nature of the quantitative revolution in German geography 9) The urban revolution: how thinking about the city in 1920s German geography prepared the field for thinking about quantification and theory 10) A revolution in process: longue Durée and the social history of the increase in numerical data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and the National Geography Council before the "quantitative revolution" (1938-1960) 11) Italian geographers and the origins of a quantitative revolution: from natural science to applied economic geography 12) The early years: William Bunge and Theoretical Geography 13) Mathematics against technocracy: Peter Gould and Alain Badiou 14) Conclusion: a virtual discussion about the quantitative revolution’s legacy for past, present, and future