“…Dodds and Sidaway (1994: 518) have referred to "geo-optical supports (ways of seeing, sites of production) that underwrite and undersee geopolitical traditions". In particular attention has been focused to visualizing devices and techniques such as maps, regional descriptions, surveys, and statistics which have become the infrastructural foundation for governmental technologies of power (Herb, 1989;Dodds, 1994b;Ó Tuathail, 1994aÓ Tuathail, , 1995Ó Tuathail, , 1996. In privileging the act of seeing, these visualizing devices and techniques, and the resulting archives of strategic knowledge, have instituted ocularcentrism and the Western 'seeingman' firmly into the space/power/knowledge nexus of modern states (Latour, 1986;Gregory, 1994;Ó Tuathail, 1996).…”