His work primarily dealt withterritoriality and relied heavily onMichel Foucault’s work about power.[1] His most influential bookPour une géographie du pouvoir has been translated into Spanish, Italian and (Brazilian) Portuguese.[2]
Raffestin died inTurin, Italy on 25 September 2025, at the age of 89.[3]
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.
^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
^Francisco R. Klauser:Thinking through territoriality: introducing Claude Raffestin to Anglophone sociospatial theory, p. 106.
