Gilles Palsky
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Gilles Palsky | |
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Paris 12 Val de Marne University | |
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Fields | geographer |
Gilles Palsky (born 1962), is a French geographer and Professor at the
Biography
Palsky was a student at the
Palsky was assistant-professor at the Paris 12 Val de Marne University from 1991 to 2006, and Professor at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University from 2007 to 2014. He was member of the Management Board the Faculty of Humanities and Science at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and director of specific research "Territories, Representation, Actors" in the urbanism master program from 2005 to 2007. From 2009 to 2014, he chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee of the 23rd section at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Since 2010, he heads the special research "Geoprism" in master programme of geography.
Palsky is a founding member of the OUCARPO (OUvroir de CArtographie POtentielle), an initiative around mapping potential. It was created May 3, 2013, at the initiative of the philosopher Guillaume Monsaingeon.
In 1996 Palsky was awarded the George Erhard award by the French geographical society
Work
Palsky's research focuses on cartography, geovisualization, urbanism, epistemology and the history of geography. He specialized in the history of statistical mapping in the 19th century, and in the foundations of the graphic semiology. He traced back the history of quantitative mapping methods, and looked into the reasons for their late adoption in geography. His current research focuses on the role of images in the construction of geographical knowledge, on the various forms of participatory mapping, and on mapping theory.
Selected publications
- Palsky, Gilles (with Jean-Marc Besse, Philippe Grand, and ISBN 9781616898236.
- Palsky, Gilles (with Jean-Marc Besse and Jean-Christophe Bailly. Le monde sur une feuille : Les tableaux comparatifs de montagnes et de fleuves dans les atlas du XIXe siècle, Lyon, Fage éditions, 2014.
- Palsky, Gilles. La Cartographie thématique en France: recherche sur ses origines et son évolution jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle; PhD Thesis Université Paris 1, 1990.
- Palsky, Gilles. Des chiffres et des cartes: naissance et développement de la cartographie quantitative française au XIXe siecle. Vol. 19. Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques-CTHS, 1996.
Articles, a selection:
- Gilles Palsky (1984). "La naissance de la démocartographie. Analyse historique et sémiologique". Espace, populations, sociétés. 2 (2). Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille: 25–34. ISSN 0755-7809.
- Palsky, Gilles. "La cartographie statistique de la population au XIXe siecle." Espace, populations, sociétés 9.3 (1991): 451-458.
- Palsky, Gilles. "The debate on the standardization of statistical maps and diagrams (1857-1901). elements for the history of graphical language." Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography (1999).
- Palsky, Gilles. "Emmanuel de Martonne and the ethnographical cartography of central Europe (1917–1920)." Imago Mundi 54.1 (2002): 111-119.
- Michael Friendly and Gilles Palsky. "Visualizing nature and society". In: James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow, eds., Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, pp. 205–251. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2007.
- Palsky, Gilles. "Connections and Exchanges in European Thematic Cartography. The case of XIXth century choropleth maps." Formatting Europe. Mapping a continent. 2007.
References
- ^ Schweber, Libby. Disciplining statistics: Demography and vital statistics in France and England, 1830–1885. Duke University Press, 2006.
- ^ Friendly, Michael, and Daniel J. Denis. "Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization." Seeing Science: Today American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008).
External links
- Gilles Palsky at Pantheon-Sorbonne University