Scape
Ideoscape
Explore in the Atlas →Appadurai's term for the global flow of ideologies and counter-ideologies — concatenations of images, often directly political, built around Enlightenment master-narratives such as freedom, welfare, rights, sovereignty, representation and democracy. As ideoscapes circulate and are translated across contexts, their keywords acquire divergent meanings, shaping the political imaginaries that legitimate (or contest) the institutions and built forms of the state.
Power Sign Meaning
Details
- Flow
- Ideoscape
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Arjun Appadurai proposed
- Edward W. Said relates to
- The Social Imaginary circulates through
Sources
- n.d..
- n.d..
- Appadurai, Arjun. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1–24, 1990.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Ideoscape." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/scape/ideoscape/. Accessed July 17, 2026.