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 primarily 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]

  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.