GGR254H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anti-Communism, Derek Gregory, Territorial Entity
19 Sep 2017
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Ggr254 lecture 2 american exceptionalism and the geographical imagination. Tells us the foundation and key political players dating back to the revolution are worth keeping in america today. P(cid:396)eside(cid:374)t o(cid:271)a(cid:373)a(cid:859)s address to the nation on syria 10 september 2013. America has a duty to connect the world. America needs to manage the international system. Cold war came about because the soviet ideas about their society was wrong in. American eyes they had a duty to protect american democracy: these ideas shape what happens out in the world. Key to geographical imagination: mental images how things, people, places are perceived. Missionary preaching to the indians the meanings from these mental images are created through discourse. All of this is based on different forms of knowledge: knowledge is form of power which feeds the geographical imagination. Geographical imagination is a form of simplification diluting the complexity of a space and its inhabitants.
