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Preferred term
imaginative geographies
Definition
- Imaginative geographies, the images of the world and its diverse people that help a group to define its identity, are cultural representations that carry both emotional and ideological weight. Within human geography, the study of imaginative geographies takes such representations seriously; images, as shapers of people's identities and understandings of the world, also shape the world itself. Thus, imaginative geographies blur distinctions between the “real” world and the “fictional” world. That is, they are real not because imaginative geographies accurately depict the world but rather because they have reflected and reinforced people's imagination of the world in tangible and concrete ways.
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/imaginative_geographies
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