1. Introduction
Michel Foucault (1926–84) was one of the most striking thinkers and
theorists of science in the second half of the 20th century, whose works
encompass a varied and wide diapason of creativity. After his education
he was a philosopher (1948) and a psychologist (1949), who obtained a
PhD (1961) in social sciences. He built his university career in France,
Brazil, Tunisia, made academic visits to Japan and the US, and from 1968
he lived and worked11The most famous bibliography of his works
in the period 1954-1984 were processed by: J. Lagrange (1994) in
French and M. Karskens (2019) in English. in Paris (Collège de
France) from 1968. In addition to being responsible for the rise of
Western philosophy, medicine and history in the domain of the discovery
of material practices and relationships of power, he is also significant
for the development of urban planning and theoretical issues of
geography, although he spoke directly about geography in an interview
with the journal Herodote22Questions to Michel Foucault
about geography, 2012.. At the same time, this Foucault relevance
and popularity in geography is best spoken by significant opuses of
modern geographers. This was first recognized by: P. Claval (1981; 1998)
who pointed to the importance of his work on the growing popularity of
epistemology and scientific evangelism in his geography, but also
emphasized how control imperatives others oppose and when it intended to
put population under surveillance, space must be compartmentalized,
while E. Soja (1984) apostrophed Foucault’s warning of the emergence of
the epoch of space and the shaping of a highly postmodern and critical
human geography that boldly reasserted the interpretive significance of
space into historically privileged prohibitions of modern critical
thought. During the 1990s, C. Philo (1991) presented his geography as
more open to theoretical representations of space, territoriality and
social reproduction, D. Gregory (1998; 2015) wrote about the importance
of Foucault’s work for the geography of power, knowledge and space while
R. Peet (1998) incorporated post-structuralist studies on his geography
into the distinctive book Modern Geographical Thought .
During the 2000s, Elden (2001) presented Foucault’s archaeology and
genealogy in excellent Mapping of the present , and then, with
Crampton (2007), he edited the most complete collection of geographical
works on Foucault; Meusburger, Gregory and Suarsana edited a book on the
geography of knowledge and power (2015), and the distinctive
encyclopedic depictions of his work were written by Huxley (2009) and
Woodward (2009). The specificity of this is the South Slovenian
languages, because the geographical literature on Foucault in these
languages was dominantly created by sociologists and other scientists,
which speaks of the interdisciplinary of his subject of study, but also
about the lack of philosophical education and interest of geographers.