Visualising and mapping historical networks of international diplomatic training

IF 1.6 2区 社会学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY
Area Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI:10.1111/area.12984
Jonathan Harris
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What might methodological approaches drawing on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) offer to sub-disciplines in geography which have traditionally been dominated by qualitative and often micro-scale research, such as historical or political geography? How might these approaches—often understood as opposing—be brought together to advance transnational research in particular? This article responds to these questions through a reflection on a recent project on the geopolitics of diplomatic training in the mid-twentieth century. Building on the established use of biography to focus transnational analyses within a complex abundance of sources, the project complemented such close-reading with computational methods of distant-reading, able to analyse large datasets to produce prosopographies and network visualisations that help identify diffuse and larger scale political and geographical relationships. The article concludes with a consideration of how such methods might be effectively integrated in the historical or political geographer's toolkit.

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可视化和绘制国际外交培训的历史网络
利用地理信息系统(GIS)和社会网络分析(SNA)的方法学方法,对历史或政治地理学等传统上以定性和微观尺度研究为主的地理学分支学科有何帮助?这些通常被认为是对立的方法如何被结合在一起来推进跨国研究呢?本文通过对最近一个关于20世纪中期外交训练的地缘政治项目的反思来回答这些问题。该项目以传记的既定用途为基础,在复杂丰富的资源中集中进行跨国分析,用远程阅读的计算方法补充了这种近距离阅读,能够分析大型数据集,生成人物学和网络可视化,帮助识别扩散和更大规模的政治和地理关系。文章最后考虑了如何将这些方法有效地整合到历史或政治地理学家的工具包中。
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Area
Area GEOGRAPHY-
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5.20
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13.60%
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80
审稿时长
24 weeks
期刊介绍: Area publishes ground breaking geographical research and scholarship across the field of geography. Whatever your interests, reading Area is essential to keep up with the latest thinking in geography. At the cutting edge of the discipline, the journal: • is the debating forum for the latest geographical research and ideas • is an outlet for fresh ideas, from both established and new scholars • is accessible to new researchers, including postgraduate students and academics at an early stage in their careers • contains commentaries and debates that focus on topical issues, new research results, methodological theory and practice and academic discussion and debate • provides rapid publication
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