Michael Flitner (Freiburg i.Br.)

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Im Bilderwald - Politische &Ouml;kologie und die
        Ordnungen des Blicks
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Pages 169 - 183


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As the &quot;cultural turn&quot; is reaching political ecology, the &quot;landscapes
        of imagination&quot; (BLAIKIE) need a more thorough examination. Taking
        GREGORY's work on &quot;geographical imaginations&quot; as a theoretical
        starting point, the author summarizes recent developments in conceptualising
        the visual in human geography and neighbouring social sciences, and relates
        them to concept for the analysis of visual images. Political ecology,
        in its move to accord greater importance to cultural developments, has
        hitherto focussed strongly on textual methods. A political hermeneutics
        of the visual can draw on pioneering work done in cultural and postcolonial
        studies, as well as geographical studies on visual images carried out
        in urban geography and tourism research mainly. Key methodological questions
        of such an approach are dealt with in some detail using a current WWF
        advertising campaign on tropical forest destruction as an example. It
        is then discussed how such an analysis of visual images can contribute
        to understanding the power-fraught politics of representation that play
        an important part in today's ecological conflicts.

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