Metageography

Metageography can refer to:

• the idea that mapping the world as a whole is always subjective and never objective^[1];
• the core concept of Martin W. Lewis' and Kären E. Wigen's 1997 published postmodern work The myth of continents : a critique of metageography.^[2] which analyzes metageographical constructs such as "East", "West", "Europe", "Asia", "North" or "South";

"Lewis and Wigen's concern is metageography, which they define as "the set of spatial structures through which people order their knowledge of the world" [...]. Geographies are thus much more than just the ways in which societies are stretched across the earth's surface. They also include the contested, arbitrary, power-laden, and often inconsistent ways in which those structures are represented epistemologically."^[3]

External links

• Enclave space: a new metageography of development?, article by James D Sidaway.

References

1. ^ O paradigma como metageografia (Portuguese)
2. ^ Lewis, Martin W.; Kären E. Wigen (1997). The Myth of Continents: a Critique of Metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. p. 35. ISBN 0-520-20742-4, ISBN 0-520-20743-2. 
3. ^ Book review by Barney Warf, African Studies Center