Abstract
ABSTRACT Jean Gottmann’s The Significance of Territory (1973) has been one of the most quoted books on the concept of territory. Yet, despite this position as a ‘classic’, Gottmann’s theory of territory has eluded the scrutiny of intellectual history. This paper engages in this task and examines the lineages of Gottmann’s theorizations of territory, particularly through the influence of two imperialist early 20th-century geographers: André Siegfried and Émile-Felix Gautier. Gottmann’s views of territory, globalization and collective psychology are thus presented in a new light as straddling the conceptual worlds of interwar imperialist geography and post-war ‘progressive’ geopolitics.
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