A little over a decade ago David Harvey, in an essay on the geographical imagination, argued that "we should deploy the Marxian concept of fetishism with its full force". Though, ten years on, he would doubtless wish to talk about geo-graphical imaginations in the plural, the fascination with fetishism remains.
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