Geographers have taken a portion of the voluminous writings of the French sociologist Henri Lefebvre and put them at the center of current disciplinary debates about space and place. In doing so they have constructed an intellectual biography of Lefebvre that highlights his connection to the Pyrenees region of southwestern France. The theoretical arguments of Lefebvre are often translated to fit within disciplinary themes, and the biographical elements are interpolated to give an experiential or lived basis to the theory. Lefebvre's geographical interpretation of his ancestral region in a popular text, Pyrénées, gives additional and alternative insights into his complicated relationship to this region and the difficulties of representing place and region. This text illustrates both elements of Lefebvre's social theory and classical geographical themes about narrating place and region.
Adams, P. , Hoelscher, S. and Till, K. , editors 2001: Textures of place. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota .
2.
Agnew, J.2004: Space-place. In Cloke, P. and Johnston, R.J. , editors, Spaces of geographical thought: deconstructing human geography's binaries, London: Sage .
3.
Berdoulay, V. 2000: Le milieu, entre description et récit. De quelques difficultés d'une approche de la complexité. In Berdoulay, V. and Soubeyran, O., editors, Milieu, colonisation et développement durable: perspectives géographiques sur l'aménagement, Paris: L'Harmattan, 25-37.
4.
Berdoulay, V. 2001: Dire la ville comme un tout: la stratégie narrative de Raoul Blanchard à propos de Grenoble. In Berdoulay, V. and Claval, P., editors, Aux débuts de l'urbanisme français, Paris: L'Harmattan, 83-93.
5.
Berdoulay, V. and Entrikin, J.N. 1998: Lieu et sujet: perspectives théoriques. L'Espace Géographique 27, 111-21.
6.
Bernié-Boissard, C. 1994: Henri Lefebvre, sociologue du quotidien, philosophe de la modernité. Espaces et Sociétés 76, 13-29.
7.
Blum, V. and Nast, H.1996: Where's the difference? The heterosexualization of alterity in Henri Lefebvre and Jacques Lacan . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space14, 559-580 .
8.
Brenner, N.1997: Global, fragmented, hierarchical: Henri Lefebvre's geographies of globalization . Public Culture10, 135-167 .
9.
Burgel, Gallia , Burgel, Guy and Dezes, M.G.1987: An interview with Henri Lefebvre . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space5, 27-38 (translated from Villes en Parallele 7, 1983).
10.
Casey, E.S.1993: Getting back into place: toward a renewed understanding of the place-world. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press .
11.
Casey, E.S.1996: The fate of place. Los Angeles: University of California Press .
12.
Casey, E.S.2001: Between geography and philosophy: what does it mean to be in the place-world ? Annals of the Association of American Geographers91, 683-693 .
13.
Chadefaud, M. 1987: Aux origines du tourisme dans les pays de l'Adour. Pau: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
14.
Claval, P. and Entrikin, J.N.2004: Cultural geography: place and landscape between continuity and change. In Benko, G. and Strohmayer, U. , editors, Human geography: a history for the 21st century, London: Arnold , 25-46.
15.
Curry, M.R.1996: The work in the world: geographical practice and the written word. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press .
16.
Dear, M.1994: Breakthrough books in geography . Association of American Geographers Newsletter29, 18-18 .
17.
Dear, M.1997: Postmodern bloodlines. In Benko, G. and Strohmayer, U. , editors, Space and social theory: interpreting modernity and postmodernity, Oxford: Blackwell , 49-71.
18.
Elden, S.2001: Politics, philosophy, geography: Henri Lefebvre in recent Anglo-American scholarship . Antipode33, 809-825 .
19.
Elden, S.2004: Understanding Henri Lefebvre: theory and the possible. London: Continuum .
20.
Entrikin, J.N.1991: The betweenness of place: towards a geography of modernity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press .
21.
Entrikin, J.N.2001: Hiding places . Annals of the Association of American Geographers91, 694-697 .
22.
Geertz, C.1996: Afterword. In Feld, S. and Basso, K.H. , editors, Senses of place, Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press , 259-262.
23.
Harvey, D.1990: Between space and time: reflections on the geographical imagination . Annals of the Association of American Geographers80, 418-434 .
24.
Harvey, D.1996: Justice, nature, and the geography of difference. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell .
25.
Hess, R.1988: Henri Lefebvre et l'aventure du siècle. Paris: A.M. Metailie .
26.
Laplace, D. 1995: Les géographes vidaliens face à L'altérité pyrénéenne. In Berdoulay, V., editor, Les Pyrénées, Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 83-96.
27.
Lefebvre, H. 1937: Le nationalisme contre les nations. Paris: Éditions Sociales Internationales.
28.
Lefebvre, H. 1958: La somme et le reste. Paris: La Nef de Paris Éditions.
29.
Lefebvre, H. 1963: La vallée de Campan, études de sociologie rurale. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (PUF).
30.
Lefebvre, H. 1965: Pyrénées. Lausanne: Éditions Rencontre. (Reprinted in 2000 as Pyrénées, Pau: Cairn, without photographs and statistical tables, with a Preface by René Lourau and a Postscript by Pierre Lourau.)
31.
Lefebvre, H. 1975: Le temps des méprises. Paris: Stock.
32.
Lefebvre, H. 1990: Du pacte social au contrat de citoyenneté. In Lefebvre, H. and Le Groupe de Navarrenx, Du contrat de citoyenneté, Paris: Syllepse et Périscope, 15-37.
33.
Hess, R.1991: The production of space (translated by D. Nicholson-Smith). Oxford: Blackwell .
34.
Malpas, J.E.1999: Place and experience: a philosophical topography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .
35.
Merrifield, A.1993a: The struggle over place: redeveloping American Can in Southeast Baltimore . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS18, 102-121 .
36.
Merrifield, A.1993b: Place and space: a Lefebvrian reconciliation . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS18, 515-531 .
37.
Merrifield, A.2002: Guest editorial . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space20, 127-134 .
38.
National Research Council1997: Rediscovering geography. Washington, DC: National Academy Press .
39.
Phillips, M.2002: The production, symbolization and socialization of gentrification: impressions from two Berkshire villages . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS27, 282-308 .
40.
Reed-Danahay, D.1996: Education and identity in rural France: the politics of schooling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .
41.
Régulier, C. 1999: Interview with authors, Navarrenx, France, 9 March.
42.
Relph, E.1976: Place and placelessness. London: Pion .
43.
Sack, R.D.1997: Homo geographicus: a framework for action, awareness, and moral concern. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press .
44.
Sayer, A.1985: The difference that space makes. In Gregory, D. and Urry, J. , editors, Social relations and spatial structures, Basingstoke: Macmillan , 49-66.
45.
Sayer, A.1993: Review of H. Lefebvre, The production of space . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research17, 458-459 .
46.
Shields, R.1999: Lefebvre, love, and struggle: spatial dialectics. London and New York: Routledge .
47.
Slater, D.2002: Other domains of democratic theory: space, power, and the politics of democratization . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space20, 255-276 .
48.
Soja, E.W.1991: Editorial . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space9, 257-259 .
49.
Soja, E.W.1996: Thirdspace. Oxford: Blackwell .
50.
Tuan, Y.-F.1977: Space and place. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press .
