Quantitative Geography
Representations, Practices, and Possibilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476464 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elaine Sheppard (0000-0002-6635-0965, University of Minnesota, corresponding author), Eric Sheppard (0000-0002-5299-5586) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 535-554 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d307 |
| OpenAlex | W2075127952 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 89 |
| References cited | 88 |
Representations of quantitative geography, both by practitioners and by others, have tended to associate quantification with empiricism, positivism, and the social and academic status quo. Qualitative geography, by contrast is represented as nonempiricist or postempiricist, sensitive to complexity, contextual, and capable of empowering nonmainstream academic approaches and social groups. Attempts to engage in debate between these positions rarely challenge this dualism, reproducing the representation of quantitative geography as logical positivism, and a dualism separating quantitative and qualitative geography. I argue that this dualism can be broken down, by deconstructing the underlying representation. I discuss why this representation came into existence and how it was stabilized; how close attention to the practices of quantitative geographers, and particularly to the evolution of these practices, reveals its inadequacies; and what new possibilities for quantitative practices emerge from this deconstruction. GIS, one of the recent manifestations around which representations of quantitative geography polarize, is used as a case study to illustrate these arguments. I pay particular attention to the question of the relevance of quantitative practices for an emancipatory human geography
Dualism · Epistemology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Status quo · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Economic Geography
Radical Geography
Quantitative Revolution 2
Sketch Maps and Qualitative GIS
Strategic Positivism∗
Geography and the present conjuncture
Em gênero e em número
The spatial variable
A Planner's quest for identifying spatial (in)justice in local communities
Competing space and place identity with landscape change analysis using Web GIS through Singapore historical maps (1828–2015)
New approaches to Archaic Greek settlement structure
Transport models, philosophy and language
Use and appropriation of space in urban public parks
Fortschritt und Verdrängung – Ökologischer Fehlschluss und quantitative Revolution in der Geographie
The subversive practice of counting bodies
Structure and event, networks and nodes in human geography
Der raumwirtschaftliche Ansatz
Planning for the Hajj
Comparing Rural and Urban Social and Economic Behavior in Uganda
Knowledge Production through Critical GIS
Assessing states
Quantifying mobilities? Reflections on a neglected method in mobilities research
Geography and the future of big data, big data and the future of geography
Exploring ‘Other’ childhoods through quantitative secondary analyses of large scale surveys
Geography matters
Is GIS for Women? Reflections on the critical discourse in the 1990s
Walk-friendly suburbs for older adults? Exploring the enablers and barriers to walking in a large suburban municipality in Canada
Mapping narratives
What qualitative GIS maps tell and don't tell
Spatialities of data
Exploring cultural geography field course using story maps
Quantitative methods II
History and philosophy of geography
Critical moments in the production of `rigorous' and `relevant' cultural economic geographies
Quantitative methods
Cartographic calculations of territory
Census Undercounts, Digital Displacement, and Data Justice
Unbounding Critical Geographic Research on Cities
We have never been positivist
Fuzzy Old World
The Internet Highway and Religious Communities
Financial exclusion and the geography of bank and building society branch closure in Britain
Job access, location decision, and the working poor
Critical GIScience in Canada in the new millennium
A humble proposal for GeoAI
The Dialectic of Race and the Discipline of Geography
Do Physicists Have Geography Envy? And What Can Geographers Learn from It
Beyond Difference
Practicing New Economic Geographies
Structuring subjectivities? Using Q methodology in human geography
Airports, mobility and the calculative architecture of affective control
Problematising the ‘Orderly’ Aesthetic Assumptions of Forecasts of East–West Migration in the European Union
Breaking out of the ‘Isolated State
Geo-Narrative
Social media and the city
Space and spatiality in theory
Affective Borderscapes
La carte et le territoire à l’ère numérique
Mapping as a Critical Making Practice in International Relations
Being Ontological
Spatial Processes and Political Methodology
Should Economic Geographers Count
Is a pixel worth 1000 words? Critical remote sensing and China's Belt and Road Initiative
Criticising the Solitary Mobile Subject
The urban geographical imagination in the age of Big Data
Doing Qualitative Research Using GIS
Space, Place, and Complexity Science
Theorizing with GIS
A dynamic model of global value network governance
Critical Quantitative Geographies
Toward speculative data
Complexity Theory as a Link between Space and Place
Positively Radical
Poststructuralism and GIS
Digitize and punish
Census Counts and Apportionment
Your Life Chances Affect Where You Live
Whither Global Production Networks in Economic Geography? Past, Present, and Future
Strengthening Causal Inference through Qualitative Analysis of Regression Residuals
Guest Editorial
Rhythms of the Night
Capitalism beyond Harmonious Equilibrium
Prospects for Qualitative GIS at the Intersection of Youth Development and Participatory Urban Planning
Race, Gender, and Statistical Representation
Revisiting critical GIS
La complexité des phénomènes spatiaux
Beyond Local Case Studies in Political Ecology
The Ground Rent Machine
Intersections of gender and water
Marx's Economics
The economics of technical change and international trade
Essays in positive economics
The Capitalist Space Economy
Lines of Power/Limits of Language
The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II
Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy
Digital Places
In the Wake of Chaos
Method in Social Science
The Emperor's New Mind
Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme I
The Evolution of Public Participation GIS
GIS and Society
Empowerment, Marginalization, and "Community-integrated" GIS
Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics
New Directions in Space
The Analysis of Spatial Association by Use of Distance Statistics
Fuzzy sets
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Explanation in geography
Geographical imaginations
Feminism and geography
Human Geography
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Geography and Geographers
Digital Sensations
State/Culture
Commentaries
X-Morphising
History and philosophy of geography
Planning and applied geography
Ideology, science and human geography
Never Question the Assumptions” and Other Scenes From the Revolution
Geography's Quantitative Revolution
Gis and Urban Studies
Spatial Analysis and the Institutionalization of Geography as a Social Science
Dissenting From Spatial Analysis
Must Emancipatory Economic Geography be Qualitative
Towards a Critioue of Industrial Location Theory
Revolutionary and Counter Revolutionary Theory in Geography and the Problem of Ghetto Formation
Fractals
Decoherence, Quantum Theory and their Implications for the Philosophy of Geomorphology
Doing Gender
An Interpretation of the Quantification Debate in British Geography
Quantitative geography
Feminist And Interpretive Method
The Quantitative Revolution and Theoretical Geography1
Climatic Change as a Random Series 1
Tool or Science?GIS, Technoscience, and the Theoretical Turn
The Random Spatial Economy and Its Evolution
Demystifying the Persistent Ambiguity of GIS as ‘Tool’ versus ‘Science’
The Digital Individual and the Private Realm
Exceptionalism in Geography
Method in Social Science
Geopolitics and geoculture
Space-Time, 'Science' and the Relationship between Physical Geography and Human Geography
Physics and the 'marginalist revolution
A History of Regression
Themes in Geographic Thought
Logics of Dislocation
A View on the GIS Crisis in Geography, or, Using GIS to Put Humpty-Dumpty Back Together Again
Towards a More Computationally Minded Scientific Human Geography
My Dinner with Derrida, or Spatial Analysis and Poststructuralism Do Lunch
From a = b to a = a
Sensations and Spatial Science
Is There a Place for the Rational Actor? A Geographical Critique of the Rational Choice Paradigm
Is Statistix Inferens the Geographical Name for a Wild Goose
We Know Who You Are and We Know Where You Live
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
| Unique citing works | 89 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,71 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 89 |