 The concept of imagined geographies originated from an author who defined them as the West's patronizing representations of what?
Imagined geographies: The concept of imagined (also referred as imaginative) geographies originated from Edward Said, particularly his work on critique on Orientalism. Orientalism (book): Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, about the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism, defined as the West's patronizing representations of "The East"—the societies and peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.
The East