ABSTRACT
Writing Worlds represents the first systematic attempt to apply poststructuralist ideas to landscape representation. Landscape - city, countryside and wilderness - is explored through the discourse of economics, geopolitics and urban planning, travellers descriptions, propaganda maps, cartography and geometry, poetry and painting. The book aims to deconstruct geographical representation in order to explore the dynamics of power in the way we see the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 8|18 pages
Reading the Texts of Theoretical Economic Geography
The role of physical and biological metaphors
chapter 10|21 pages
Foreign Policy and the Hyperreal
The Reagan administration and the scripting of ‘South Africa'
chapter 11|17 pages
Portland's Comprehensive Plan as Text
The Fred Meyer case and the politics of reading
