The Deconstruction of Geography: Postmodernism, Grievance Politics, and the Retreat from Pragmatism

By Isaac Megbolugbe IntroductionOver the last few decades, geography has undergone a profound ideological shift. A cohort of intellectuals has leveraged postmodernist frameworks to dominate the discipline, reducing hard innovations and empirical technologies to mere social constructs. This structural obsession with the architecture of meaning has fueled a culture of complaints and identity-based grievances, resulting