GGRB13H3 Lecture Notes - Social Geography, Feminist Geography, Postcolonialism
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Developed out of a critique of structuralism, suggesting that linguistic practices, discourses, and texts have no essential characteristic but are constructed temporarily through the deployment of power. In geography, poststructuralist theory informs the study of representations and representational politics as well as the politics of identity and subjectivity. With social geography, we are writing about the world. Maps are not black or white, its important to human geography. Earliest forms of communication took the forms of maps. >when mapping you need to consider social quality, e. x income of families. >what we know about the world come through maps. >maps vary from person to person depending on their background. Maps help naturalize and communicate a dominant idea of who belongs within particular boundaries and who does not. The powerful write maps, with there own agenda. Discipline of geography has been central to projects of nation building, colonization, imperialism, fascism.
