Claude Raffestin

Claude Raffestin (born 15 September 1936 in Paris) is a Swiss geographer. He is professor of human geography at University of Geneva.

Raffestin's work primily deals with territoriality and relies heavily on Michel Foucault’s work about power.^[1] His most influential book Pour une géographie du pouvoir has been translated into Spanish, Italian and (Brazilian) Portuguese.^[2]

Publications

• "Territoriality - A Reflection of the Discrepancies Between the Organization of Space and Individual Liberty", International Political Science Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, 139-146 (1984). DOI 10.1177/019251218400500205
• "Could Foucault have revolutionized Geography?", In: Space, Knowledge and Power, Chapter 14. Translated by Gerald Moore.
• Pour une géographie du pouvoir, Librairies techniques, 1980 ISBN 978-2-7111-0271-6. (Italian: Per una geografia del potere, 1983; Portuguese: Por uma geografia do poder, 1993)
• Géopolitique et histoire by Claude Raffestin, Dario Lopreno and Yvan Pasteur; Payot 1995. ISBN 978-2-228-88901-8
• "L’actualité et Michel Foucault", espacestemps, 2005.
• "Foucault aurait-il pu révolutionner la géographie?" In: Au risque de Foucault. Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 1997, pp. 141–149.

Further reading

• Francisco R. Klauser: Thinking through territoriality: introducing Claude Raffestin to Anglophone sociospatial theory, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30 (1), 2012, pp. 106 – 120.
• Juliet J. Fall: Reading Claude Raffestin: pathways for a critical biography. In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30 (1), 2012, pp. 173 – 189.

References

1. Could Foucault have revolutionized Geography?, In: Space, Knowledge and Power, ed. by Jeremy W. Cramptonand Stuart Elden, pp. 31-33 (Chapter 14). Translated by Gerald Moore. Review of the book
2. Francisco R. Klauser: Thinking through territoriality: introducing Claude Raffestin to Anglophone sociospatial theory, p. 106.