ABSTRACT
The cultural space created by geographical narratives such as adventure stories, not always confining the imagination to entrenched ways of thinking, to conservative constructions of geography and identity, is a point of departure from which it is possible to deconstruct and reconstruct, unmap and remap geographical and social worlds. To unmap literally is to denaturalise geography, hence to undermine world views that rest upon it. Metaphorically, unmapping means denaturalising more abstract constructs, such as race and gender, which are mapped in imaginative geography. Unmapping is a critical project, a form of resistance to received or mapped world views. Resistance may take the form of critical readings, as I argued in Chapter 6, although it may also take the more tangible form of critical writing. Critical writers appropriate and subvert language and narratives, producing counter-currents of resistance to discursive authority.
