GH Geographica Helvetica GH Geogr. Helv. 2194-8798 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/gh-68-17-2013 Structure and event, networks and nodes in human geography: the 1960s revisited Strohmayer U. 1 School of Geography & Archaeology, NUI Galway, Ireland 30 05 2013 68 1 17 26 Copyright: © 2013 U. Strohmayer 2013 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/68/17/2013/gh-68-17-2013.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/68/17/2013/gh-68-17-2013.pdf

In search of transnational scholarship and languages within human geography, the so-called ''Quantitative Revolution'' of the 1960s arguably holds considerable pride of place. More than previous innovations within geography, which were largely bounded within (and by) national intellectual traditions, the innovate practices associated with the 1960s arguably hold a key to understanding how intellectual traditions become shared traditions and as such enrich both national and international research practices. The present paper uses insights gleaned from the 1960s in the context of a geography still oscillating between ''structural-'' and ''event-driven'' forms of explanation in an attempt better to understand pronounced (if historically uneven) interweavings of national traditions that shape discourses and practices in human geography across the globe. Part of this analysis will focus on the importance of structures and careers in the making of such traditions, thereby contextualising the widely shared notion of an ''Anglo-Saxon hegemony'' currently prevailing in human geographical theoretically informed practices. Throughout, the paper focuses on the task of editing a journal like <i>Geographica Helvetica</i> as a transnational journal interested in bridging traditions formed by particular languages across Europe and beyond.

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