ABSTRACT
Since the publication of Said’s Orientalism in 1978, Geography and Postcolonial Studies have combined to excavate the geopolitical imaginaries and global projections which ‘Europe’ (‘the West’) mobilised and continues to mobilise to legitimate colonial adventures, build hegemonic projects and manufacture consent (Said 1978). Moreover Postcolonial Studies has stimulated Anglo-American Geography itself to reflect upon its own emergence in and through empire and by encouraging a historicising and relativising of geographical imaginations spawned from within professional and institutional wings of the discipline has sought to raise awareness of the complex ways in which Anglo-American Geography has intermeshed with histories of colonialism and empire. Collectively, this body of work has effectively and critically deconstructed European ways of imagining, demonising, and belittling other, non-European, and past and present colonised societies.
