Em A \"Ostentação Estatística\" procura-se investigar os caminhos pelos quais um antigo projeto geopolítico (engendrado, sobretudo, nos meios militares) revestiu-se tecnicamente nos anos seguintes ao golpe militar de 1964, quando toda uma práxis política sobre o território percorrerá os principais planos governamentais do período - em especial o II PND -, acatando-se o conceito de planejamento enquanto instrumento norteado (num clima desenvolvimentista) para o desenvolvimento econômico do Brasil. Indica-se como este instrumental permeou as reflexões de geógrafos, economistas e outros profissionais, as quais agregaram um corpo heterogêneo de ideologias territoriais, desde a Regional Science, passando pela Economia Espacial francesa e pelas elaborações da geografia possibilista (em sua vertente relacionada à geografia urbana), até a geografia quantitativa. Tal campo teórico tornar-se-ia referência tanto para que um quadro técnico em torno de vários órgãos estatais (notadamente o IBGE e o IPEA) se incumbisse da elaboração de estatísticas, estudos regionais e métodos de regionalização como subsídios às políticas públicas do Estado, quanto para o debate da geografia brasileira do período, elaborada à sombra dessa pretensão matemática e de um afã pragmático; ambos visando a atingir para a geografia um maior prestígio entre as ciências e uma relevância em relação aos desígnios do Estado. / In \"The Statistical Ostentation\", the ways by which an old geopolitical project (concocted mainly in the military environment) acquired a technical appearance in the years following the 1964 military coup, when a political praxis on the territory would spread through the main governmental plans in the period - especially the II PND - acquiescing in the concept of planning as a guided instrument (in a developing environment) for the economical development of Brazil was investigated. It was revealed how that instrument permeated the reflections of geographers, economists, and other professionals, which aggregated a heterogeneous collection of territorial ideologies, starting from the Regional Science, the French Space Economics, and the elaborations of the possibilist geography (in its segment related to urban geography), up to the quantitative geography. Such theoretical field would become a reference to the production, by a technical team from several state organs (especially the IBGE and the IPEA), of statistics, regional studies and regionalization methods used as subsidies for the State\'s public policies, and also to a debate on the Brazilian geography in the period, which has been designed in the shade of that mathematical objective and a pragmatic effort, both of which had the purpose of conferring greater prestige on geography among the sciences, and also relevance with regard to the projects of the State.

Em A \"Ostentação Estatística\" procura-se investigar os caminhos pelos quais um antigo projeto geopolítico (engendrado, sobretudo, nos meios militares) revestiu-se tecnicamente nos anos seguintes ao golpe militar de 1964, quando toda uma práxis política sobre o território percorrerá os principais planos governamentais do período - em especial o II PND -, acatando-se o conceito de planejamento enquanto instrumento norteado (num clima desenvolvimentista) para o desenvolvimento econômico do Brasil. Indica-se como este instrumental permeou as reflexões de geógrafos, economistas e outros profissionais, as quais agregaram um corpo heterogêneo de ideologias territoriais, desde a Regional Science, passando pela Economia Espacial francesa e pelas elaborações da geografia possibilista (em sua vertente relacionada à geografia urbana), até a geografia quantitativa. Tal campo teórico tornar-se-ia referência tanto para que um quadro técnico em torno de vários órgãos estatais (notadamente o IBGE e o IPEA) se incumbisse da elaboração de estatísticas, estudos regionais e métodos de regionalização como subsídios às políticas públicas do Estado, quanto para o debate da geografia brasileira do período, elaborada à sombra dessa pretensão matemática e de um afã pragmático; ambos visando a atingir para a geografia um maior prestígio entre as ciências e uma relevância em relação aos desígnios do Estado. / In \"The Statistical Ostentation\", the ways by which an old geopolitical project (concocted mainly in the military environment) acquired a technical appearance in the years following the 1964 military coup, when a political praxis on the territory would spread through the main governmental plans in the period - especially the II PND - acquiescing in the concept of planning as a guided instrument (in a developing environment) for the economical development of Brazil was investigated. It was revealed how that instrument permeated the reflections of geographers, economists, and other professionals, which aggregated a heterogeneous collection of territorial ideologies, starting from the Regional Science, the French Space Economics, and the elaborations of the possibilist geography (in its segment related to urban geography), up to the quantitative geography. Such theoretical field would become a reference to the production, by a technical team from several state organs (especially the IBGE and the IPEA), of statistics, regional studies and regionalization methods used as subsidies for the State\'s public policies, and also to a debate on the Brazilian geography in the period, which has been designed in the shade of that mathematical objective and a pragmatic effort, both of which had the purpose of conferring greater prestige on geography among the sciences, and also relevance with regard to the projects of the State.

Cette thèse propose l’analyse spatio-temporelle d’un mouvement scientifique au moyen d’une théorie sociologique (Frickel, Gross, 2005), complétée par une approche d’analyse spatiale, combinaison qui fait l’originalité de ce travail. La géographie théorique et quantitative européenne francophone, dont l’évolution temporelle et la configuration spatiale restaient très mal connues, en est l’objet. Elle permet de mettre en perspective les rares auto-analyses qui y sont consacrées. Deux grands types de matériaux sont mobilisés : archivistique (Répertoire des géographes, revues ou listes de communications à des colloques spécialisés) et mémoriel (sur la base de 58 entretiens semi-directifs). L’analyse de ces corpus combine des méthodes quantitatives (de la théorie des graphes à l’analyse de la spécialisation des unités géographiques) et qualitatives (analyse thématique et sémantique des corpus et des entretiens des acteurs). Cette investigation a permis de proposer une périodisation du mouvement, articulée autour de trois grands moments : 1. l’émergence, de 1971-72 à 1984, impliquant un faible nombre d’acteurs et de lieux, moment où des chercheurs isolés entrent en interaction, 2. l’âge d’or, de 1985 à la fin des années 1990, marqué par l’existence d’un collectif structuré, reposant sur de nombreuses interactions entre les lieux européens francophones, qui se reproduit et essaime, 3. la généralisation du cœur de connaissances qui s’accompagne d’un déclin de l’identification au mouvement, des années 2000 à nos jours, selon de nombreuses reconfigurations, voyant la disparition de certains pôles historiques. / The aim of this thesis is to implement a spatio-temporal analysis of a scientific movement based on a sociological theory (Frickel, Gross, 2005), combined with spatial analysis. This combination constitutes the major contribution of the present work. For this analysis, the author has chosen as a subject the European French-speaking theoretical and quantitative geography, whose temporal evolution and spatial configuration remained largely unknown until now. The thesis uses two main kinds of materials: archival (Répertoire des géographes, journals, lists of communications of TQG colloquium) and memorial with 58 semi-structured interviews collected from a sample of actors of the movement. The analysis of the corpus combines quantitative methods (from graph theory to the analysis of geographical units’ specialization), and qualitative ones (thematic and semantic analysis of the corpus and interviews of actors). This investigation has allowed us to propose a periodization of the movement since its beginnings in the 1960’s organized around three main periods: 1. the emergence, from 1971-72 to 1984, involving a small number of actors and locations, and while individual researchers interact in order to give themselves a self training, 2. the Golden Age, from 1985 to the end of the 1990’s, marked by the formation of organized groups based on many interactions between French-speaking places in Europe, self reproducing and spreading. 3. The generalization of the knowledge core which is accompanied by a decline in identification with the movement, from the 2000’s to the present, according to many reconfigurations including the disappearance of certain historical centres.