The Imprecise Wanderings of a Precise Idea: The Travels of Spatial Analysis
| Autor: | Trevor J. Barnes, Carl Christian Abrahamsson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning History of geography 02 engineering and technology Epistemology Ancient Greece Geography Human geography Calculus Science studies 050703 geography Quantitative revolution Axiom Heterotopia (space) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Mobilities of Knowledge ISBN: 9783319446530 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-44654-7_6 |
| Popis: | The chapter uses a schematic map, “Quantgeog Airline,” first drawn by Peter Taylor in 1977, as an entree to discuss the complicated geography of the spatial analysis tradition within the history of geography. That tradition seeks to explain spatial order using a formal vocabulary reduced to its simplest axioms. The chapter draws on science studies to fashion some concepts to understand the diffusion of the idea of spatial analysis. It makes use of Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, Gieryn’s idea of a “truth spot”, and Latour’s notion of a “center of calculation,” applying these three concepts to provide a substantive (geographical) genealogy of the spatial analysis tradition that begins in ancient Greece, moves to Italy, and then in the seventeenth century shifts to Amsterdam and Cambridge (U.K.). The authors analyse the tradition’s complicated development in the twentieth century by looking at the United States in the 1950s during the so-called “quantitative revolution” and Northern Europe from the 1930s to early 1950s (Germany, Estonia, and Sweden). |
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