Jean-Bernard Racine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Swiss geographer & academic
Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1940
Place of Birth: Neuchâtel, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Profession: geographer
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
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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