Culture
Friday, 6/26, 08:12 PM
Yves Lacoste, Who Recast Geography as an Instrument of Power, Dies at 96
- Yves Lacoste, the French geographer who argued that geography is never a neutral science but a tool of states and armies, has died at 96.
- He reframed the discipline as the study of power over territory and revived the contested idea of geopolitics.