Concept information
Preferred term
text/textuality
Definition
- Text and textuality, a metaphor commonly used in cultural geography that likens landscape interpretation to reading a written document, refer to a system of signs that are unstable and open to multiple understandings and repeated revisions. Such an expansive notion of text leading well beyond its traditional association with the written page to include a vast array of cultural productions—including landscapes but also maps, pictures, social institutions, political regimes, and even the world itself—is characteristic of the post-structuralist perspective at the heart of this concept. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Text and Textuality]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/text_textuality
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