It’s a question of purpose. What is geography for? First “to wage war”, Yves Lacoste provocatively theorized in 1976, the year of publication of this eponymous book published by Maspero and the founding of the journal Hérodote. The catalyst came four years earlier, in 1972, when the geography professor at Paris 8 University was conducting a field experiment in Vietnam. He notes that, far from being a coincidence, the American bombings explicitly target the embankments of the Red River upstream of a very densely populated area.
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