This work provides a reading of geography as a discipline and a discourse, and attempts to situate that discourse within the fabric of contemporary social theory. Its focus is on understanding the ways in which social life is variously embedded in place, space and landscape. In the fulfillment of this objective, historical imagination, textual exegesis, philosophical scrutiny, sociological interpretation and geographical sensitivity are interwoven. In mapping human geography into contemporary social theory, the author addresses, re-interprets and questions key theoretical debates and issues - post-colonialism, structuration theory, feminism, deconstruction, postmodernism and post-structuralism - and explores the crucial connection between space, power and knowledge. "Geographical Imaginations" is both a critique of contemporary social theory and a fundamental contribution to the understanding of social life and its intrinsic spatiality.