Re‐specifying geographical quantification
Problems of order in street interviews
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8964058 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ignaz Strebel (0000-0001-6636-6070, ETH Zürich – DARCH ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE HIL G 65.1 Zürich 8093 Switzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 278-290 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.12014 |
| OpenAlex | W2067079510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
This paper deals with quantitative geography, adopting the perspective of ethnomethodology. Rather than deliver another definition or critique of quantitative geography, it examines activities through which quantification is locally produced and accomplished as phenomena that can be accounted for as a form of scientific and geographical order. It begins by discussing how geography has examined quantification as a problem of how data move between the field of investigation and a so‐called centre of calculation, thereby overlooking the many practices that contribute to its epistemic configuration. To empirically document instances of quantification as a locally organised accomplishment, it then turns to video‐recorded street interviews that were carried out in the course of a European research project on the sense of well‐being felt by users of urban open spaces. Analysis of interview conduct reveals that the adequacy and relevancy of the questionnaire is not given per se, but is produced in the encounter between the interviewer and the passer‐by respondent
Epistemology · Ethnomethodology · Field (mathematics · Geography · Interview · Order (exchange · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Regional science · Respondent · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Mathematics · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Urban Planning and Governance
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Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action
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Science in action
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Studies in ethnomethodology
‘So, as you can see . . .’
Standardized Survey Interviewing
Towards a geography of heterogeneous associations
The Dissemination, Standardization and Routinization of a Molecular Biological Technique
Toward a Sociology of Social Scientific Knowledge
Ideology, science and human geography
Instructed actions in, of and as molecular biology
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The Cold War and geography’s quantitative revolution
People can talk about their practices
Cultural geography
Driving and ‘Passengering
Making Sense of Ethnomethodology
Pandora's hope
Cold shoulders and napkins handed
Cultural geography
Geography's underworld
Non-Representational Approaches to Body-Landscape Relations
Afterwords
Performing Economic Geography
Drinking up endings
The Region in the Boot
The Spaces of Knowledge
The living building
Being friendly in survey interviews
Rethinking Context
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |