Actes du colloque tenu à Montpellier Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 les 27-28 octobre 2015International audienceAlongside the etymological toponymy that sheds light on the history of human occupation of an environment, a political or critical toponymy also comes into being. Rather than the toponyms themselves, this concerns the process of naming. It highlights, by naming and the means or techniques employed for this, the geopolitical issues involved in territorialization. All these elements have to be contextualized in time and space, but can also be modelled to a certain degree thanks to approaches based on the work of Foucault and Raffestin, concerning respectively the technologies of power and territoriality. This article thus pres...