Thinking through Territoriality

Introducing Claude Raffestin to Anglophone Sociospatial Theory

Bibliographic Data

ID4476314
AuthorsF Klauser (0000-0003-3383-3570, University of Neuchâtel, corresponding author), Francisco R Klauser (University of Neuchâtel)
Year2012
Volume30
Issue1
Pages106-120
Publication date2012-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d20711
OpenAlexW2035589473
LanguageEN
Citations received43
References cited33

This introductory paper establishes the grounds for a more sustained discussion of Claude Raffestin's understanding of human territoriality in its contribution to contemporary geographical debates. The purpose is to highlight the broad, and fundamentally interrelated, philosophical, epistemological, and political ambitions of Raffestin's work, before elucidating some of the key conceptual pillars of his relational thinking through territoriality. In this, particular emphasis will be placed on the concept of mediation. The proposed engagement with Raffestin's work offers an opportunity not only for revisiting territoriality in its value for contemporary political geography and sociospatial theory, and for rethinking the positioning and contribution of Raffestin's oeuvre itself, but also for critically reflecting upon the spaces and power relationships of geographical knowledge production today and in the past

Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Mediation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Territoriality · Value (mathematics · Communication · Computer Science · French Urban and Social Studies · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Law · Philosophy · Rural development and sustainability

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