Organiser Et Reorganiser L’espace Entre Centre Et Peripherie: Modernite De La Geographie Politique De Jean Gottmann
Organizing and Reorganizing the Space Between Center and Periphery: Modernity of Jean Gottmann's Political Geography

Summary/Abstract: This article replaces the work of Jean Gottman, French geographer (1915 - 1994) in the current evolution of geographical thought. It shows how Jean Gottman's visionary insights are today key elements for the analysis and understanding of contemporary political and spatial phenomena. This text thus returns to the key concepts of Gottman's work: the opposition isolationism / cosmopolitanism, the notions of partition / partitioning, the binomial center / periphery, the growing importance of world cities and megalopolitan areas, or the omnipresence of the idea of movement, which prefigures the formulation of a new kinetic geography. Always sensitive to the ambivalence of the world, at once ever more compartmentalized and ever more fluid and moving, this geographer leaves us a major contribution to seize the current ambiguities of globalization.

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