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  1. Kant, I. (1974). Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, translated by V. L. Dowell, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague; Kant, I. (1999). Geographie (Physiches Geographie, translated by M. Cophen Halimi, M. Marcuzzi, and V. Seroussi. Paris: Bibliotheque Philosophique; May, J. (1970). Kant’s Concept of Geography and its Relation to Recent Geographical Thought, Toronto, Toronto University Press; and see Harvey, D. (2000). Cosmopolitanism and the banality of geographical evils. Public Culture, 12(No.2), 529–564, for further elaboration of this argument.

  2. Krugman and Sachs are both featured in Pleskovic, B. & Stiglitz, J. (Eds.), World Bank Conference on Development Economics. Washington, D.C: World Bank. The sessions were devoted to the theme of “Is Geography Destiny?”.

  3. Harley, J., Laxton, P., & Andrews, J. (Eds.) (2001). The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press; and the various volumes published by the history of cartography project edited initially by J.B. Harley and David Woodward, published by the University of Chicago Press.

  4. Harley’s essays (loc. cit.) are exemplary in this regard but see also Wood, D. (1992). The Power of Maps. New York: Guilford Press.

  5. Harvey (1996) (op. cit); Lefebvre (1974): (op. cit).

  6. An example within geography would be Meinig, D. (1995). The Great Columbia Plain: a Historical Geography, 1805–1910. Seattle: University of Washington Press; and a parallel in history would be Cronon, W. (1983). Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang.

  7. Harley, J. (2001) (op.cit.).

  8. The so-called “Frankfurt School” was the center of critical theory in the social sciences for many years; see Jay, M. (1973). The Dialectical Imagination. London: Routledge; Welmer, A. (1974). Critical Theory of Society. New York: Seabury Press.

  9. Laclau E., & Mouffe, C. (1985). Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. London: Verso, provides the best articulation of this line of argument.

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Harvey, D. The Sociological and Geographical Imaginations. Int J Polit Cult Soc 18, 211–255 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-006-9009-6

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