GG270 Chapter Notes -Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Great Divergence, Deconstruction
Document Summary
Race and gender viewed through political economic lenses in 1970"s. Mitchell rejects the more idealist position that culture represents an assemblage of meanings and proposed instead tat we treat culture as the outgrowth of social relations. Cultural geography: has downgraded the importance of fieldwork and has too often come to think of empirical research as a question of perusing texts. Magazines, adverts, movies, landscapes for representations of this or that. Empirical research: necessarily informs the critique of ideology and is informed by it, but should not be confused for it. Cartography cultures of mapping: power in practice. Recent resurgence of public interest in the history of mapping, shown by the publication of mass market mapping tales relating biography to histories of cartography. Jester image: figured by its time, success dependent upon the very certainties it mocked, but it no longer resonates as it would to a sixteenth-century audience.
