Mapping the sources of diffusion and the active movements of scientists by using a corpus of interviews. An experiment about the origins of theoretical and quantitative geography in French-speaking Europe

Título: Mapping the sources of diffusion and the active movements of scientists by using a corpus of interviews. An experiment about the origins of theoretical and quantitative geography in French-speaking Europe; Terra Brasilis (Nova Série). Revista da Rede Brasileira de História da Geografia e Geografia Histórica; UMR
Autor: Sylvain Cuyala
Assunto: ciência; difusão espacial; geografia teorético-quantitativa
Abstract: This article presents a mapping of the making of a scientific movement built upon the records of its stakeholders, by using an interdisciplinary approach that mobilizes the general theory of a scientific or intellectual movement (Frickel, Gross, 2005), the history of the present moment (Bédarida, 2001) and a spatial analysis approach. This work belongs to the discipline of “geography of science”. We were able to identify the stakeholders, the places, the movements and the connections that led to the birth of a scientific movement. We suggest splitting the origins of French-speaking European theoretical and quantitative geography into three periods: disjointed places (1945-1960), beginnings (1960-1968) and crystallization (1968-1972).
issue: 5
Date: 2015
Língua: en
doi: 10.4000/terrabrasilis.1519
issn: 1519-1265
uri: http://journals.openedition.org/terrabrasilis/1519