GGRB28H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Derek Gregory, Teleology, Critical Discourse Analysis
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Sample test question: explain farmer"s theory of georgraphy of blame and outline the theory"s components in detail. Geographical imaginations: term redefined by derek gregory- wrote book of the same name (1993, defined as the "spatialized cultural and historical knowledge that characterizes social groups . We don"t always have positive understandings of places, we also have negative understandings. Doreen massey: geography is in our mind. We have images of places in our mind. Sometimes, these sources of images can be a problem for us. Democratic despotic (local populations were controlled by madmen) Treichler: a continent"s agony: great variation across the continent ; but not being reocgnized ; Irrational (infused with mysticism and stories) some parts of africa were colonized and some were not ; some countries had civil wars and some not; religion; ways of life (some have nomadic populations and some done)
