Settler Colonialism, GeoMedia, and the Geographical Imaginary

Geographical imaginaries are always in a state of struggle, rooted in logics of exception, dispossession, and radical possibility. This article connects the theoretical, methodological, and political uses of geographical imaginaries to geomedia, connecting their coconstituted entanglements in settler-colonialism and role in maintaining settler-colonial hegemony. In doing so, the author traces the ideological roots of geomedia and their role in animating geographical imaginaries, making visible the ways social movements challenge and refuse settler-colonial imaginaries head on. The article concludes with a discussion on the use of countermedia by Real Change News Paper and the Mestaa'ėhehe Coalition, to enact what Katz termed topographies of hope, reorienting sociospatial relations and geographical imaginaries toward liberatory futures.