J J Fall
Biographic Data
| ID | 25565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J J Fall |
| GIVEN NAMES | J J |
| FAMILY NAME | Fall |
| SIGNATURE | FALL J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5292-2232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Along the line
Worlding geographies
This intervention responds to the ‘Geography in the World’ series, addressing the question from two angles. Firstly, it shifts the focus from geography in the world to worlding geographies. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of ‘becoming‐minority’, it encourages reflection on the current geography of knowledge production as a historical, political, and linguistic construct. While this produces a dominance of English‐speaking geography, thi…
Locating the territoriality of territory in border studies
Safe spaces in the city
“Dear Carl”
Territory, sovereignty and entitlement
Communicating invasion
This article explores how discourses of threat concerning invasive alien species emerge and how ordinary citizens understand, receive and appropriate them. It explores the ambivalence of scientists and policy‐makers using emotive or highly charged terms and vocabulary, arguing that many make strategic yet cautious use of fear to raise awareness. Based both on in‐depth interviews of scientists and/or expert policy‐makers involved in communicating …
Reading Stuart Elden's The Birth of Territory
Thinking spaces of writing and engagement
No abstract available
Framing globalization and constructing the world
No abstract available
Not a geography of what doesn’t exist, but a counter-geography of what does
The shaping of geography as a discipline has been the result of a combination of productive and successful communication and missed opportunities, of presence and absence, of fluid travels of ideas and projects, but also of closures, impediments, good lessons that got lost. This paper suggests that using a counterfactual approach to draw attention to specific geographies that remained unfulfilled and poorly known helps to think beyond linear gene…
Reading Claude Raffestin
In this paper I suggest fleshing out and making material the authorial voice by exploring pathways for writing a critical biography of Claude Raffestin, a Swiss geographer writing since the late 1970s up to the present day. In exploring his life and contribution as part of the wider Francophone tradition of social and political geography, I aim to engage further with the debate on the circulation of knowledge and the alleged hegemony of the Engli…
De plantes dignes et d’invasions barbares
Cet article traite de la dotation d’un statut éthique au règne végétal, moralement hiérarchisé et stratifié. Nous isolons trois champs problématiques connexes qui entrecroisent une conception dynamique et morale du végétal, en utilisant l’exemple des plantes dites invasives : la tension entre le contrôlé et le contrôlable ; le rapport des mots et des choses, soit les modalités de catégorisation du « réel » dans les pratiques scientifiques ; et fi…
Artificial states? On the enduring geographical myth of natural borders
Denis E. Cosgrove (1948—2008)
Conservation Across Borders
Beyond handshakes
The personal and institutional complications of planning across a larger geographic entity are often poorly understood, and the existing geographical literature reveals a lack of coherent and operative conceptual frameworks for discussing transboundary cooperation as a social and spatial practice of identity construction. This paper briefly describes existing literature on transboundary cooperation, in particular institutional approaches, in orde…
Au-delà des poignées de main
Les dimensions personnelles et institutionnelles de l’aménagement au sein d’un espace géographique sont souvent mal comprises. Cette contribution évoque la littérature sur la coopération transfrontalière, en particulier sur les approches institutionnelles, pour en pointer les limites. Face à ce manque de littérature géographique cohérente et opérationnelle apte à éclairer les situations complexes de coopération transfrontalière, nous proposons de…
Unbounded boundary studies and collapsed categories
This paper is a response to Reece Jones’ ‘Categories, borders and boundaries’ (2009) that aims to give an alternate proposal to rethink geographical categories and boundary studies. First, it examines the various meanings of the word ‘category’ as used in Jones’ paper. We then stress the importance of the processes involved in constructing spatialized and unspatialized categories as a central issue for social sciences. Using different examples su…
On the limits of dialogue between Francophone and Anglophone political geography
Lost geographers
This paper takes a reflexive look at the production of scientific discourses by exploring the context and practice of political geography within the Francophone world. This article builds on the idea that the fundamental difference between Anglo and Francophone geographies relates to how theoretical writings and texts circulate, rather than to fundamental differences of content or topic. It examines how certain texts, ideas and thinkers have circ…
Individuals, Collectives, and the Spatial Transformation of the Political
Embodied Geographies, Naturalised Boundaries, and Uncritical Geopolitics in La Frontière Invisible
In this paper I explore embodiment and spatiality by discussing the example of a conflict between competing representations of landscapes and the female body in the two volumes of the comic books La Frontière Invisible. This piece of fiction deals specifically and explicitly with a reassessment of the gaze in the production of knowledge by examining maps as tools of power, control, and colonisation. However, despite an apparent desire to reject r…
Between Global and Local
Cusset, François . French Theory
is pinned onto a door near my office, at the
Artificial states? On the enduring geographical myth of natural borders
Lost geographers
This paper takes a reflexive look at the production of scientific discourses by exploring the context and practice of political geography within the Francophone world. This article builds on the idea that the fundamental difference between Anglo and Francophone geographies relates to how theoretical writings and texts circulate, rather than to fundamental differences of content or topic. It examines how certain texts, ideas and thinkers have circ…
Locating the territoriality of territory in border studies
Unbounded boundary studies and collapsed categories
This paper is a response to Reece Jones’ ‘Categories, borders and boundaries’ (2009) that aims to give an alternate proposal to rethink geographical categories and boundary studies. First, it examines the various meanings of the word ‘category’ as used in Jones’ paper. We then stress the importance of the processes involved in constructing spatialized and unspatialized categories as a central issue for social sciences. Using different examples su…
Not a geography of what doesn’t exist, but a counter-geography of what does
The shaping of geography as a discipline has been the result of a combination of productive and successful communication and missed opportunities, of presence and absence, of fluid travels of ideas and projects, but also of closures, impediments, good lessons that got lost. This paper suggests that using a counterfactual approach to draw attention to specific geographies that remained unfulfilled and poorly known helps to think beyond linear gene…
Reading Claude Raffestin
In this paper I suggest fleshing out and making material the authorial voice by exploring pathways for writing a critical biography of Claude Raffestin, a Swiss geographer writing since the late 1970s up to the present day. In exploring his life and contribution as part of the wider Francophone tradition of social and political geography, I aim to engage further with the debate on the circulation of knowledge and the alleged hegemony of the Engli…
Embodied Geographies, Naturalised Boundaries, and Uncritical Geopolitics in La Frontière Invisible
In this paper I explore embodiment and spatiality by discussing the example of a conflict between competing representations of landscapes and the female body in the two volumes of the comic books La Frontière Invisible. This piece of fiction deals specifically and explicitly with a reassessment of the gaze in the production of knowledge by examining maps as tools of power, control, and colonisation. However, despite an apparent desire to reject r…
Divide and rule
On the limits of dialogue between Francophone and Anglophone political geography
Territory, sovereignty and entitlement
Communicating invasion
This article explores how discourses of threat concerning invasive alien species emerge and how ordinary citizens understand, receive and appropriate them. It explores the ambivalence of scientists and policy‐makers using emotive or highly charged terms and vocabulary, arguing that many make strategic yet cautious use of fear to raise awareness. Based both on in‐depth interviews of scientists and/or expert policy‐makers involved in communicating …
Reading Stuart Elden's The Birth of Territory
Constructing the Carpathians
This paper explores some of the assumptions behind the purposefully-vague spatial definition of the area covered by the Carpathian Convention, pointing to the problematic aspects of defining such an entity. The intrinsically political nature of defining boundaries in space is stressed, including the difficulties of seeking a biophysical justification for a political project. The process leading to the birth of the Carpathian Convention is therefo…
Beyond handshakes
The personal and institutional complications of planning across a larger geographic entity are often poorly understood, and the existing geographical literature reveals a lack of coherent and operative conceptual frameworks for discussing transboundary cooperation as a social and spatial practice of identity construction. This paper briefly describes existing literature on transboundary cooperation, in particular institutional approaches, in orde…
Construire les Carpates
Cet article explore certains postulats qui existent dans la définition spatiale résolument vague de la région couverte par la Convention des Carpates, mettant en lumière les aspects problématiques de la définition d'une telle entité. La nature intrinsèquement politique de la définition de limites dans l'espace est mise en avant, y compris la difficulté de baser un projet politique sur des limites biophysiques. Le processus de négociation de la Co…
Divide and rule
Constructing the Carpathians
This paper explores some of the assumptions behind the purposefully-vague spatial definition of the area covered by the Carpathian Convention, pointing to the problematic aspects of defining such an entity. The intrinsically political nature of defining boundaries in space is stressed, including the difficulties of seeking a biophysical justification for a political project. The process leading to the birth of the Carpathian Convention is therefo…
Construire les Carpates
Cet article explore certains postulats qui existent dans la définition spatiale résolument vague de la région couverte par la Convention des Carpates, mettant en lumière les aspects problématiques de la définition d'une telle entité. La nature intrinsèquement politique de la définition de limites dans l'espace est mise en avant, y compris la difficulté de baser un projet politique sur des limites biophysiques. Le processus de négociation de la Co…
Between Global and Local
Cusset, François . French Theory
is pinned onto a door near my office, at the
Embodied Geographies, Naturalised Boundaries, and Uncritical Geopolitics in La Frontière Invisible
In this paper I explore embodiment and spatiality by discussing the example of a conflict between competing representations of landscapes and the female body in the two volumes of the comic books La Frontière Invisible. This piece of fiction deals specifically and explicitly with a reassessment of the gaze in the production of knowledge by examining maps as tools of power, control, and colonisation. However, despite an apparent desire to reject r…
Lost geographers
This paper takes a reflexive look at the production of scientific discourses by exploring the context and practice of political geography within the Francophone world. This article builds on the idea that the fundamental difference between Anglo and Francophone geographies relates to how theoretical writings and texts circulate, rather than to fundamental differences of content or topic. It examines how certain texts, ideas and thinkers have circ…
Individuals, Collectives, and the Spatial Transformation of the Political
On the limits of dialogue between Francophone and Anglophone political geography
Denis E. Cosgrove (1948—2008)
Conservation Across Borders
Beyond handshakes
The personal and institutional complications of planning across a larger geographic entity are often poorly understood, and the existing geographical literature reveals a lack of coherent and operative conceptual frameworks for discussing transboundary cooperation as a social and spatial practice of identity construction. This paper briefly describes existing literature on transboundary cooperation, in particular institutional approaches, in orde…
Au-delà des poignées de main
Les dimensions personnelles et institutionnelles de l’aménagement au sein d’un espace géographique sont souvent mal comprises. Cette contribution évoque la littérature sur la coopération transfrontalière, en particulier sur les approches institutionnelles, pour en pointer les limites. Face à ce manque de littérature géographique cohérente et opérationnelle apte à éclairer les situations complexes de coopération transfrontalière, nous proposons de…
Unbounded boundary studies and collapsed categories
This paper is a response to Reece Jones’ ‘Categories, borders and boundaries’ (2009) that aims to give an alternate proposal to rethink geographical categories and boundary studies. First, it examines the various meanings of the word ‘category’ as used in Jones’ paper. We then stress the importance of the processes involved in constructing spatialized and unspatialized categories as a central issue for social sciences. Using different examples su…
Artificial states? On the enduring geographical myth of natural borders
De plantes dignes et d’invasions barbares
Cet article traite de la dotation d’un statut éthique au règne végétal, moralement hiérarchisé et stratifié. Nous isolons trois champs problématiques connexes qui entrecroisent une conception dynamique et morale du végétal, en utilisant l’exemple des plantes dites invasives : la tension entre le contrôlé et le contrôlable ; le rapport des mots et des choses, soit les modalités de catégorisation du « réel » dans les pratiques scientifiques ; et fi…
Framing globalization and constructing the world
No abstract available
Not a geography of what doesn’t exist, but a counter-geography of what does
The shaping of geography as a discipline has been the result of a combination of productive and successful communication and missed opportunities, of presence and absence, of fluid travels of ideas and projects, but also of closures, impediments, good lessons that got lost. This paper suggests that using a counterfactual approach to draw attention to specific geographies that remained unfulfilled and poorly known helps to think beyond linear gene…
Reading Claude Raffestin
In this paper I suggest fleshing out and making material the authorial voice by exploring pathways for writing a critical biography of Claude Raffestin, a Swiss geographer writing since the late 1970s up to the present day. In exploring his life and contribution as part of the wider Francophone tradition of social and political geography, I aim to engage further with the debate on the circulation of knowledge and the alleged hegemony of the Engli…
Thinking spaces of writing and engagement
No abstract available
Communicating invasion
This article explores how discourses of threat concerning invasive alien species emerge and how ordinary citizens understand, receive and appropriate them. It explores the ambivalence of scientists and policy‐makers using emotive or highly charged terms and vocabulary, arguing that many make strategic yet cautious use of fear to raise awareness. Based both on in‐depth interviews of scientists and/or expert policy‐makers involved in communicating …
Reading Stuart Elden's The Birth of Territory
“Dear Carl”
Territory, sovereignty and entitlement
Locating the territoriality of territory in border studies
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