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My doctoral thesis is interested, between the end of the nineteenth century and the end of the twentieth century, in the way geographers have understood or even been interested in a word – politics – and in the disciplinary horizons it opened up, without prejudging any continuity. It seeks to explore the variety of cognitive and linguistic configurations attached to “politics” – in particular “political geography” and “geopolitics” – and to its fluctuating lexical procession over time. From an epistemological point of view, I wonder if politics, and the meanings geographers attribute to it (it can be a geographical object, a category of thought, a (militant) commitment in research), lead to specific (scientific) treatments and mobilizations and certain “research styles”. Finally, I wonder if the mobilization of politics in geography is based on practical aims or even a form of commitment to the city and I try to reconstruct the boundaries that geographers would have, depending on the moment, drawn between “politics” and the science they practice.