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Book Review: Apollo’s eye: a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the Western imagination

Book Review: Apollo’s eye: a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the Western imagination reviews in brief ‘worlding’. Cultural geography, the editors urge us to see, is an engagement with that moment, especially its spatiality, and all that it rubs up against. This is not your ‘new cultural geography’ (no aspersions intended), but rather a much broader attempt to chart an ongoing ‘cultural turn’ throughout the social sciences, including what might be called the ‘social turn’ in cultural study, and their combined effects on geography. Spliced in are (amongst others) the perspectives and vocabularies of actor-network theory, postcolonial theory, queer theory, critical geopolitics, postdevelopment and critical race theory. The impact is salutary and, I think, cumulative; what is revealed here about contemporary cultural geography is both a steadily deepening enrichment of what it means to give materialist accounts of the world and a broadening palette of materialisms to work with that are infused with a sense of struggle and justice. This, at least, is one of the things I take from the book. The handbook is divided into nine sections, with three or four chapters per section. (A complete table of contents and author list is available at www.sagepublications.com.) The first round of engagement (sections 1–3) plays culture off its standard oppositions– economy, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book Review: Apollo’s eye: a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the Western imagination

Hays, David L.
Cultural Geographies , Volume 11 (4): 2 – Oct 1, 2004
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reviews in brief ‘worlding’. Cultural geography, the editors urge us to see, is an engagement with that moment, especially its spatiality, and all that it rubs up against. This is not your ‘new cultural geography’ (no aspersions intended), but rather a much broader attempt to chart an ongoing ‘cultural turn’ throughout the social sciences, including what might be called the ‘social turn’ in cultural study, and their combined effects on geography. Spliced in are (amongst others) the perspectives and vocabularies of actor-network theory, postcolonial theory, queer theory, critical geopolitics, postdevelopment and critical race theory. The impact is salutary and, I think, cumulative; what is revealed here about contemporary cultural geography is both a steadily deepening enrichment of what it means to give materialist accounts of the world and a broadening palette of materialisms to work with that are infused with a sense of struggle and justice. This, at least, is one of the things I take from the book. The handbook is divided into nine sections, with three or four chapters per section. (A complete table of contents and author list is available at www.sagepublications.com.) The first round of engagement (sections 1–3) plays culture off its standard oppositions– economy,

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Published: Oct 1, 2004

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