ABSTRACT
The geographical imagination is concerned with interpreting how places and the spaces in between are produced and reproduced, constructed and deconstructed, by whom and to what purposes. A place-influenced environmental ethics shares a common interest in how individuals and communities act upon and understand local to global environments. If we consider the Greek origins of the word “ethics,” ?trea, i.e. “habitats,” the historic disciplinary intersection of interest in place is evident. Whether places are known with affection, ambivalence, disdain, or complex combinations, they are distinguished in time and space in the context of their meanings to individuals, social groups, nations, and cultures. These meanings and social relations are undergoing rapid transformations in Primorie, a region within Russia’s Far East. The geographical and ethical imaginations meet here, tracing the complex dynamic of how, and by whom, local places within Primorie are being “re-mapped.”
