Des Mots et des Lieux
La Dynamique du Discours Geographique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4947296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Nicholas Entrikin, Vincent Berdoulay (0000-0001-8558-4815) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 444 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/215853 |
| OpenAlex | W2094002421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
in late-twentieth-century Anglo-American geography. One reason for the renewed interest is the perception that the Vidalians offered a model of the intellectual middle ground that has been the goal of various competing voices in modern geography. The organic quality of Vidalian thought has been contrasted favorably with the antinomic character of contemporary geographical thought. The French geographers have been described as part scientist, part humanist; part structuralist, part voluntarist; part human geographer, part physical geographer; and as having followed a narrow path between the excesses of economism and culturism, materialism and idealism. Although some of these characterizations are based on simple interpolations from the possibilism-determinism debate, many have benefited from the work of modern historians of geography, who have produced a relatively substantial and comprehensive body of literature on the Vidalians. A leading contributor to this literature is Vincent Berdoulay, whose writings demonstrate the coherence, innovativeness, and relevance of Vidalian thought, while acknowledging its complexity as an intellectual project built on a varied, occasionally conflicting collection of interests. In previous works, especially La formation de l'ecole francaise de geographie (1870-1914) (1981), Berdoulay emphasized the contextual issues associated with the emergence of the French school. He examined Vidalian thought in relation to the academic, social, and political debates of the time, specifically theoretical arguments of the Durkheimians and political assertions about the ideals of nationhood in the Third Republic. In this way, Berdoulay addressed the question of why the French school took its particular form and why it became prominent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Humanities · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Philosophy
Sur les prétentions scientifiques et la légitimité philosophique d'une théorie des formes de l'établissement humain
Lieu, culture et démocratie
La question du sujet et la géographie
Geography, Humanism, and Global Concern 1
L'américanité in Quebec in the 1980s
El legado de la geografía tropical
Geography's literature
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2020 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |