Jean-Bernard Racine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jean-Bernard Racine

Swiss geographer & academic

Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1940

Place of Birth: Neuchâtel, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Profession: geographer

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Jean-Bernard Racine

  • Jean-Bernard Racine (born 1940 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland) is a Professor of Geography at the Institute of Geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and at HEC Lausanne Business School.
  • Professor Racine received his first PhD in Geography from the University of Aix-en-Provence (1965) and his State PhD in Geography (1973) from the University of Nice.
  • Jean-Bernard Bernard was a professor at the University of Sherbrooke between 1965 and 1969, and at the University of Ottawa from 1969 to 1973. Jean-Bernard Racine is the author of many articles and books in the fields of quantitative geography, epistemology and social geography.
  • Influenced by Brian Berry, Walter Isard, Peter Gould and David Harvey, he published L’Analyse quantitative en géographie in 1973 with H.
  • Reymond and was widely considered as one of the pioneers of the “new geography” in the 1970s in the Francophone world.
  • Professor Racine has also contributed to the development of epistemology in the social sciences as evidenced by his 1981 book called Problématiques de la géographie published with H.
  • Isnard and H.
  • Reymond.
  • In the 1990s and 2000s, his interests moved again, to become concerned with issues of social and cultural geography: La ville entre Dieu et les hommes was published in 1993. Professor Racine has received the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize (France) in 1997.
  • He holds an honorary doctorate from Iasi (Romania).

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