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Revealing the hidden: On the book Hidden Geographies.

This article is a critical review of an extensive collection of papers edited by Marko Krevs and recently published by Springer. The collection contains many concrete examples of scholarly uncovering of the hidden in geography and gives us a glimpse of the wide range of topics geographers deal with and the methods they use. Based on an analysis of the contributions of 50 authors, this article distinguishes the types of the hidden that can be identified in the book: 1.Hidden as inaccessible to human senses ; 2. Hidden as inaccessible or invisible to the majority ; 3. Hidden as clandestine ; 4. Hidden factors and contexts behind visible structures ; 5. Hidden as ignored, neglected, overlooked ; 6. Hidden as yet unrealized potential ; 7. Hidden boundaries, invisible borders ; 8. The little-known history of the landscape as hidden ; 9. Meanings as hidden ; 10. Hidden as perceptions beyond media narratives. As the contributions show, the notion of "hidden geography" is apt to arouse scholarly curiosity. The characteristics of hidden geography can be summarised in several questions: What is hidden? Hidden by whom and to whom? Why is it hidden? How is it hidden? When is it hidden? Where is it hidden? The author argues that many questions related to the concept presented remain to be clarified. For example, at a time when we have rejected many binaries, even such basic ones as the binary of the natural and the social, should we clearly delineate the hidden and the revealed? Is it not a prerequisite for the study of an unknown (hidden) phenomenon or object that we know at least something about it in advance? Does not our object remain unknown to us in many ways even after we have investigated it? How can the concept of hidden geography be connected to our awareness of the positionality of the researcher and the situatedness of knowledge? In short, there are many questions and issues that are either addressed in the reviewed collection or remain to be addressed, which naturally brings the discussion of the concept of hidden geography into epistemological debates that are important to the discipline as a whole.

geography, hiddenness, epistemological debate

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