New book on "geography's quantitative revolution"
Routledge has published a novel and groundbreaking volume on one of the most exciting periods in the history of geography. The publication analyzes how the mathematized, modeling approach gained ground in international geography through the "quantitative revolution" that began in the 1950s. It presents the general social, economic, and political reasons that gave impetus to the rise of the new trend, or later led to its decline. The main novelty of the volume is its comparative approach, which allows the reader to review the different histories of this scientific trend in different countries, from the US to Brazil to Hungary, and the "journeys" of certain influential researchers and their works between countries.
The volume, entitled Recalibrating the Quantitative Revolution in Geography: Travels, Networks, Translations, was edited by Ferenc Gyuris, associate professor, Boris Michel (Halle), and Katharina Paulus (Erlangen). The international working group that prepared the studies also included Larissa Alves de Lira (Belo Horizonte), Trevor Barnes (Vancouver), Luke Bergmann (Vancouver), Matthew Hannah (Bayreuth), Mariana Lamego (Rio de Janeiro), Olivier Orain (Paris), Matteo Proto (Bologna), Guilherme Ribeiro (Rio de Janeiro), Michiel van Meeteren (Utrecht/Loughborough), and Matthew Wilson (Lexington, Kentucky).
Further information about the volume can be found on the publisher's website, where selected sections can be downloaded free of charge: