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Claude Raffestin

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Swiss geographer

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 primarily deals with territoriality and relies heavily on Michel Foucault’s work about power. His most influential book Pour une géographie du pouvoir has been translated into Spanish, Italian and (Brazilian) Portuguese.

Publications

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.
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