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Metageography, a Common card
Metageography is a term used by Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen's 1997 The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography, which analyzes metageographical constructs such as "East", "West", "Europe", "Asia", "North" or "South".
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 43
- DEF
- 21
- Power
- 64
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,000
Power 64 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- They also include the "contested, arbitrary, power-laden, and often inconsistent ways in which those structures are represented epistemologically." In an interview, Lewis explained: "By 'metageography' I mean the relatively unexamined and often taken-for-granted spatial frameworks through which knowledge is organized within all fields of the social sciences and humanities." He added that "the…
- The term was criticized by James M. Blaut: "the word metageography seems to have been coined by the authors as an impressive-sounding synonym for 'world cultural geography.'" Lewis and Wigen, however, disagreed, arguing that every consideration of human affairs employs a metageography as a structuring force on one's conception of the world In 1969, Soviet geographers Gokhman, Gurevich and…
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Metageography article was read about 1,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 43 and blocks with 21: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Metageography (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Eric Gaba ( Sting - fr:Sting ), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.