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date: 13 September 2024

imaginative geographies 

Source:
A Dictionary of Human Geography
Author(s):

Alisdair Rogers,

Noel Castree,

Rob Kitchin

The ways in which other places, peoples, cultures, and landscapes are represented in discourse and action by another group. The imaginative geographies produced—whether conversations, art, media reporting, travel writing, academic articles, intelligence reports—reflect the preconceptions and desires of their creators, and are reflective of the power between these authors and the subjects of their imaginings. The term was popularized by the postcolonial scholar ... ...

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