Imagined geographies are thus seen as a tool of power, of a means of controlling and subordinating areas. Power is seen as being in the hands of those who have the right to objectify those that they are imagining.
The passage argues that imagined geographical spaces are not neutral representations of reality but rather tools used to exert power and control over others. Those with the ability to create these imagined geographies hold the power to define and limit the experiences and possibilities for those within them.