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In recent months I’ve prepared a new research plan/paper on the stuff I’ve been doing, connected to my work in the 1989 After 1989 project: The “spatial turn” in the history of scientific knowledge has called […]

English Blog Zoltán Ginelli általfeb 10, 201722:01

The Technocrat / A technokrata

this pretty much sums up my PhD topic. / jól összefoglalja a doktorimat. Bokor Sándor, az Ózdi Munkaügyi Kpt. vezetője. Ózd, 1993 Forrás: index.hu

English Blog Zoltán Ginelli általjan 17, 201716:50

Assembling Hungarian socialist urban and regional planning in the early post-WWII period

This paper explores the early post-WWII era institutionalization of socialist urban and regional planning, and the uneven relations between the nation-state and the urban scale in Hungary. From the perspective of science and technology studies […]

English Blog Zoltán Ginelli általjan 3, 201704:59

A short summary of my PhD project

My doctoral research project is about the geographies of the so-called ‘quantitative revolution’. I am interested in the circulation of knowledge produced in the emerging global centre(s), to provide a sort of overview of the ways […]

English Blog Zoltán Ginelli általokt 10, 201611:35

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Staff with degree from Hungary at the Geography Department, University of Brunei Darruslam (1989)

English Blog Zoltán Ginelli általokt 3, 201613:06

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The urban hierarchy of New Zealand in the 1950s

The great Ron J. Johnston wrote an article in 1969 on the development of urban geography in New Zealand after 1945. He writes about a “nomothetic movement” emerging from the 1950s, which drew its sources from the geography of the UK and the US. One of the main figures in New Zealand was L. L. Pownall, who argued already in 1952 for an urban geography building on inductive generalizations.