GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Geographical Society, Human Geography
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Imaginative geographies that the artist is putting forward or counter imaginative geographies. How do they relate to the section we are talking about - power of imaginative geographies. 20 - 30 minutes free flow writing, no need for outline. All knowledge is political - all knowledge comes from somewhere and is therefore entangled with power relations. There is a spatiality to knowledge production: geopolitical; institutional; individual social location. As a scholar, institutional context - need funding, publish, research. Personal context - gender, race, culture, class. Ubc, president, and head of department want publications of professors. Make the department look more professional, good reputation. Dobson was a geographer who was interested in how geographical knowledge and techniques may serve us for global power. Early 2000s, american geographical society"s president jerome dobson: failures in us war on iraq due to lack of geographical knowledge. Dobson: to a geographer like me, the answer seems simple.
