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Claude Raffestin

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Claude Raffestin (15 September 1936 – 25 September 2025) was a Swiss geographer. He was a professor of human geography at University of Geneva.

Life and career

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Raffestin was born in Paris on 15 September 1936.

His work primarily dealt with territoriality and relied 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]

Raffestin died in Turin, Italy on 25 September 2025, at the age of 89.[3]

Publications

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  • C. Raffestin. 2012. Space, Territory, and Territoriality. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 30(1):121–141. doi:10.1068/d21311
  • "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

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  • 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

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  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.
  3. ^ Lutto per Mercedes Bresso, ex presidente di Regione Piemonte: morto a 89 anni il marito Claude Raffestin (in Italian)
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