Actor Network Theory and quantification in geography: comparison between the Brazilian and French geographies

• Grant number: 14/18860-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: November 01, 2014
• End date: April 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Eliseu Savério Sposito
• Grantee: Jônatas Lima Candido
• Supervisor: Philippe Martin
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/05373-0 - The Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a possibility of understanding of story of thought geographic, BP.MS

Abstract

This proposal stage binds to a research project that aims to test the Actor Network Theory (ANT) as a means to study the production of Brazilian geographical knowledge. The project's time frame the period between the late 1960s and early 1980s During the research, it was identified as a problem the fact that ANT make use of methodologies that are not possible to be employed to study the past . However, we found that also in Avignon University's research in geography being developed with the use of quantitative methodologies, received attention similar to that Brazilian geography gave these methodologies in the period surveyed. Accordingly, Avignon constitutes an important laboratory for research cited earlier. Thus, they intend to make use of qualitative methodologies such as, for example, participant observation to examine the research done in geography at the University of Avignon and test the possibilities of ANT to the study of the geography of production. (AU)