A New Title: the Work of Queering

I've been wondering how to move this blog along; hence, I'm focusing this conversation and renaming this blog "Queering the Geographical Imagination" (from "The Geographical Imagination").  I aim to not only consider the geographical imagination to analyze the spatialities of everyday life--a theoretical concept and tool I find useful--but to...
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NYTimes Shrinks the Western World into the Geography of Paris

Today the NYTimes provided an incredible example of how they and others like them have the power to reorgazine space, time, and power through the geographical imagination. The newspaper labeled photographs of Michael Bloomberg's two Victorian residences in New York City and London as the West Bank and East...
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Understanding the Geographical Imagination

The “geographical imagination” is a popular catchphrase in the geographical literature with multiple, often unclear definitions and framings. The concept of the geographical imagination developed from C. Wright Mills’ (1961) “sociological imagination,” a conceptual tool for use by individuals to compare their personal biographies to larger social structures within...
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About Environmental Psychology &/or Geography

I define environmental psychology as how people relate to and define spaces and places, and how spaces and places relate to and define people. I take as my starting point Lefebvre's argument that "[social] space is [socially] produced." We produce space / space produces us; this falls under an interactionist...
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