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‘New cartographies’ and the decolonization of European geographies
Author(s) -
Pickles John
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2005.00645.x
Subject(s) - decolonization , heading (navigation) , space (punctuation) , sociology , anthropology , aesthetics , political science , politics , geography , law , linguistics , art , philosophy , geodesy
This paper begins with Jacques Derrida's ‘Europe’ on an‐Other heading and ClaudioMinca's (2003Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21 160–8) suggestion that critical human geographers need to become more attentive to their own geographical predispositions and positionalities. The paper focuses on some lessons from postcolonial writing and asks to what extent we have been successful in decolonizing (and reshaping) geographies of Europe in the ways in which we respond to transformations at the borders of Europe. The paper concludes with a discussion of efforts to ‘provincialize’ and decolonize Euro‐geographies, and the kinds of ‘new cartographies’ of Europe we might write and teach.