Jean-Marc Besse
Visiting Scholar
Ph.D., Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Residence: March 1 - May 31, 2012
Profile
Jean-Marc Besse is senior researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He was trained in philosophy (agrégation) and history (Ph. D.) at the university of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the director of the EHGO/UMR Géographie-cités team (CNRS/Paris I/Paris VII).The main orientation of his research is an epistemological and historical investigation of modern and contemporary geography, space and landscape. Among his current projects: a study on the birth and diffusion of the atlas as a form of representation of geographical knowledge in early modern Europe, and an investigation of geography as a heuristic resource in the field of the history of science.
He is president of the “history” committee in the Comité Français de Cartographie.
Selected publications
J.-M. Besse, H. Blais, I. Surun (Editor/s). Naissances de la géographie moderne (1760-1860). Lieux, pratiques et formation des savoirs de l’espace en France. Lyon: ENS éditions, 2010.
J.-M. Besse. Le goût du monde. Exercices de paysage. Arles: Actes Sud/ENSP, 2009.
J.-M. Besse, M.-D. Couzinet, F. Lestringant (Editor/s). Les méditations cosmographiques à la Renaissance. Paris: Presses universitaires Paris-Sorbonne, 2009.
