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Torsten Hägerstrand, the Glossary

Torsten Hägerstrand (October 11, 1916, in Moheda – May 3, 2004, in Lund) was a Swedish geographer.^[1]

91 relations: Academia Europaea, Actor–network theory, Address geocoding, Allan Pred, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association of Geographers, American Geographical Society, Émile Durkheim, British Academy, Cambridge University Press, Charles P. Daly Medal, Copenhagen, Critical geography, Cultural diffusion, Cultural geography, Demography, Diagram, Dialectic, Diffusion of innovations, Economic Geography (journal), Emeritus, Emotion, Ethics, Ethnomethodology, Feminist geography, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Gender, Place & Culture, Geographer, Geographic information system, Geographical Review, Geography, GeoJournal, Gilles Deleuze, Gillian Rose, Henri Lefebvre, Honorary degree, Human migration, Humanism, Interactionism, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Journal of Transport Geography, List of honorary doctors of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Lund, Lund University, Masculinity, Moheda, Monte Carlo method, Nigel Thrift, Non-representational theory, ... Expand index (41 more) »
Recipients of the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize
Regional scientists
Swedish geographers

Academia Europaea

The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences.

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Actor–network theory

Actor–network theory (ANT) is a theoretical and methodological approach to social theory where everything in the social and natural worlds exists in constantly shifting networks of relationships.

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Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates, frequently latitude/longitude pair, to identify a location on the Earth's surface.

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Allan Pred

Allan Richard Pred (1936–2007) was an internationally known American geographer and professor at the University of California at Berkeley He wrote more than 20 books and monographs, translated into seven languages, and over 70 articles and book chapters. Torsten Hägerstrand and Allan Pred are 20th-century geographers, Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy and regional scientists.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Association of Geographers

The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and importance of geography and related fields.

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American Geographical Society

The American Geographical Society (AGS) is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City.

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Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim (or; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917), professionally known simply as Émile Durkheim, was a French sociologist.

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British Academy

The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Charles P. Daly Medal

The Charles P. Daly Medal is awarded to individuals by the American Geographical Society (AGS) "for valuable or distinguished geographical services or labors." The medal was established in 1902.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.

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Critical geography

Critical geography is theoretically informed geographical scholarship that promotes social justice, liberation, and leftist politics.

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Cultural diffusion

In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis, is the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another.

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Cultural geography

Cultural geography is a subfield within human geography.

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Demography

Demography is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration.

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Diagram

A diagram is a symbolic representation of information using visualization techniques.

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Dialectic

Dialectic (διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, refers originally to dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argumentation.

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Diffusion of innovations

Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread.

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Economic Geography (journal)

Economic Geography is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Taylor & Francis on behalf of Clark University.

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Emeritus

Emeritus (female version: emerita) is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus".

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Emotion

Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.

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Ethics

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.

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Ethnomethodology

Ethnomethodology is the study of how social order is produced in and through processes of social interaction.

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Feminist geography

Feminist geography is a sub-discipline of human geography that applies the theories, methods, and critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment, society, and geographical space.

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Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia ry; Academia Scientiarum Fennica) is a Finnish learned society.

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Gender, Place & Culture

Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography is a peer-reviewed journal published 12 times a year by Taylor & Francis.

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Geographer

A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts.

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Geographic information system

A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and software that store, manage, analyze, edit, output, and visualize geographic data.

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Geographical Review

The Geographical Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge on behalf of the American Geographical Society.

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Geography

Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.

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GeoJournal

GeoJournal is a peer-reviewed international academic journal on all aspects of geography founded in 1977.

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Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art.

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Gillian Rose

Gillian Rosemary Rose (née Stone; 20 September 1947 – 9 December 1995) was a British philosopher and writer.

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Henri Lefebvre

Henri Lefebvre (16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social space, and for his work on dialectical materialism, alienation, and criticism of Stalinism, existentialism, and structuralism.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements.

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Human migration

Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region).

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Humanism

Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.

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Interactionism

In micro-sociology, interactionism is a theoretical perspective that sees social behavior as an interactive product of the individual and the situation.

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International Journal of Geographical Information Science

International Journal of Geographical Information Science is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis.

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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.

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Journal of Transport Geography

The Journal of Transport Geography is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier in association with the Transport Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

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List of honorary doctors of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

This list of honorary doctors of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) shows recipients of honorary doctorates bestowed by NTNU and its precursors, the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) (1910–1967) and the University of Trondheim (UNiT) (1968–1996).

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Lund

Lund ((US) and) is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Öresund strait from Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Lund University

Lund University (Lunds universitet) is a public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities.

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Masculinity

Masculinity (also called manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles associated with men and boys.

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Moheda

Moheda is a locality situated in Alvesta Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 1,824 inhabitants in 2010.

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Monte Carlo method

Monte Carlo methods, or Monte Carlo experiments, are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results.

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Nigel Thrift

Sir Nigel John Thrift (born 12 October 1949 in Bath) is a British academic and geographer. Torsten Hägerstrand and Nigel Thrift are human geographers and Victoria Medal recipients.

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Non-representational theory

Non-representational theory is the study of a specific theory focused on human geography.

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Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Torsten Hägerstrand and Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters are members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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Norwegian Journal of Geography

Norwegian Journal of Geography (Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Routledge on behalf of the Norwegian Geographical Society.

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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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Phenomenology (philosophy)

Phenomenology is the philosophical study of objectivity and reality (more generally) as subjectively lived and experienced.

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Physics

Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.

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Pragmatics

In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.

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Professor

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.

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Progress in Human Geography

Progress in Human Geography is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of human geography, primarily publishing critical reviews of current research.

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Qualitative research

Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation.

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Quantitative revolution

The quantitative revolution (QR) was a paradigm shift that sought to develop a more rigorous and systematic methodology for the discipline of geography.

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Regional Science Association International

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) is a cluster of scholarly societies whose members engage in regional science.

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Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom.

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Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien, IVA), founded on 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the royal academies in Sweden.

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Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities

The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities also called simply the Royal Academy of Letters or Vitterhetsakademin abbreviated KVHAA (Kungl. or Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien or Vitterhetsakademien) is the Swedish royal academy for the Humanities.

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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the royal academies of Sweden.

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Simulation

A simulation is an imitative representation of a process or system that could exist in the real world.

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SMIL (computer)

SMIL (Siffermaskinen i Lund, "The Number Machine in Lund") was a first-generation computer built at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.

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Social constructionism is a term used in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory.

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Société de Géographie

The Société de Géographie, is the world's oldest geographical society.

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Space

Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions.

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Spatial planning

Spatial planning mediates between the respective claims on space of the state, market, and community.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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The Professional Geographer

The Professional Geographer is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal publishing short articles on all aspects of geography.

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The Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie (English: Journal of Economic & Social Geography) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Dutch Geographical Society.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsten_Hägerstrand

Also known as Haegerstrand, Torsten, Hägerstrand, Torsten, Torsten Haegerstrand, Torsten Hagerstand.

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See also

Recipients of the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize

Regional scientists

Swedish geographers

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