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2021 (3)
Analysing non-existent and existing tourisms in Eastern Siberia among the Evenki, Even, Koryak and Itelmen. LAVRILLIER, A., GABYSHEV, S., EGOROVA, L., MAKAROVA, G., & LOMOVTSEVA-ADUKANOVA, M. Espace Populations Sociétés, 2021.
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Paper doi abstract bibtex Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Siberian indigenous villagers and nomads have often struggled to find enough income to sustain themselves. Some natives think that ethno-tourism can be a source of income, but there is currently little tourism in Siberia. In the circumpolar Arctic, tourism is presented as a source of economic development. The Russian Federation’s Official Plan for Economic Development to 2030 also includes the growth of tourism; to this end, Russia has mobilised specialised taskforces. What will be the economic, social and cultural consequences for native communities? What forms of tourism will be beneficial for them? What perceptions do Siberian natives have of tourism? This transdisciplinary paper compares non-existent tourism, as it is imagined, desired, or deplored by native townspeople, villagers, and nomadic herders of the Sakha-Yakutia Republic and Amur region, with existing ethno-tourism experiences in Kamchatka. Based on ethnographic material collected from 1994 to 2016, the paper used participatory fieldwork, hypothesising performed by indigenous co-researchers and an anthropologist, and classical anthropology. It analyses existing and non-existent tourisms on the economic, social, cultural, and administrative levels.
@article{lavrillier_analysing_2021,
series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {Analysing non-existent and existing tourisms in {Eastern} {Siberia} among the {Evenki}, {Even}, {Koryak} and {Itelmen}},
volume = {2020/3-2021/1},
issn = {0755-7809, 2104-3752},
url = {http://journals.openedition.org/eps/10790},
doi = {10.4000/eps.10790},
abstract = {Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Siberian indigenous villagers and nomads have often struggled to find enough income to sustain themselves. Some natives think that ethno-tourism can be a source of income, but there is currently little tourism in Siberia. In the circumpolar Arctic, tourism is presented as a source of economic development. The Russian Federation’s Official Plan for Economic Development to 2030 also includes the growth of tourism; to this end, Russia has mobilised specialised taskforces. What will be the economic, social and cultural consequences for native communities? What forms of tourism will be beneficial for them? What perceptions do Siberian natives have of tourism? This transdisciplinary paper compares non-existent tourism, as it is imagined, desired, or deplored by native townspeople, villagers, and nomadic herders of the Sakha-Yakutia Republic and Amur region, with existing ethno-tourism experiences in Kamchatka. Based on ethnographic material collected from 1994 to 2016, the paper used participatory fieldwork, hypothesising performed by indigenous co-researchers and an anthropologist, and classical anthropology. It analyses existing and non-existent tourisms on the economic, social, cultural, and administrative levels.},
language = {en},
urldate = {2021-03-30},
journal = {Espace Populations Sociétés},
author = {LAVRILLIER, Alexandra and GABYSHEV, Semen and EGOROVA, Liudmila and MAKAROVA, Galina and LOMOVTSEVA-ADUKANOVA, Maia},
year = {2021},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: Russia},
file = {Lavrillier et al. - 2021 - Analysing Non-Existent and Existing Tourisms in Ea.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/9GF4DKP7/Lavrillier et al. - 2021 - Analysing Non-Existent and Existing Tourisms in Ea.pdf:application/pdf},
}Chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Sami reindeer herding: the socio-political dimension of an epizootic in an indigenous context. MARAUD, S. & ROTURIER, S. Animals, 11(2):e297, 2021.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is the most transmissible of the prion diseases. In 2016, an unexpected case was found in Norway, the first in Europe. Since then, there have been 32 confirmed cases in Norway, Sweden, and Finland. This paper aims to examine the situation from a social and political perspective: considering the management of CWD in the Swedish part of Sápmi—the Sami ancestral land; identifying the place of the Sami people in the risk management–because of the threats to Sami reindeer herding that CWD presents; and understanding how the disease can modify the modalities of Indigenous reindeer husbandry, whether or not CWD is epizootic. Based on interviews with various stakeholders and by examining the social sciences literature, this paper shows that the health risk management is structured by a politico-scientific controversy about the recognition, or not, of atypical and classical CWD. The Sami herders are currently cooperating with the state authorities in the surveillance program to sample their herds. This involvement takes place in a situation where the balance of power between the Sami people and the state, or the European Union, is framed by its colonial context. This has consequences with respect to the definition of a common interest and to implementing sanitary measures. The particular features of reindeer herding are seen as a challenge to managing CWD risk, compared with European health standards. We argue that CWD will greatly modify the modalities of Indigenous reindeer herding, whether there are positive cases or not in the Sami reindeer. By implementing new health guidelines, the authorities will create a cascading effect in Sami land and its use. The CWD situation in Fennoscandia is full of uncertainty but may cause a major shift in the organization and the governance of Sápmi. In September 2020, the identification of a new CWD case in a wild reindeer in Norway started a new episode in the disease management in Fennoscandia. Our paper raises various questions linked to understanding this new step in this crisis which is not only epidemiological, but also socio-cultural and political.
@article{maraud_chronic_2021,
series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {Chronic wasting disease ({CWD}) in {Sami} reindeer herding: the socio-political dimension of an epizootic in an indigenous context},
volume = {11},
issn = {2076-2615},
shorttitle = {Chronic {Wasting} {Disease} ({CWD}) in {Sami} {Reindeer} {Herding}},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/2/297},
doi = {10.3390/ani11020297},
abstract = {Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is the most transmissible of the prion diseases. In 2016, an unexpected case was found in Norway, the first in Europe. Since then, there have been 32 confirmed cases in Norway, Sweden, and Finland. This paper aims to examine the situation from a social and political perspective: considering the management of CWD in the Swedish part of Sápmi—the Sami ancestral land; identifying the place of the Sami people in the risk management–because of the threats to Sami reindeer herding that CWD presents; and understanding how the disease can modify the modalities of Indigenous reindeer husbandry, whether or not CWD is epizootic. Based on interviews with various stakeholders and by examining the social sciences literature, this paper shows that the health risk management is structured by a politico-scientific controversy about the recognition, or not, of atypical and classical CWD. The Sami herders are currently cooperating with the state authorities in the surveillance program to sample their herds. This involvement takes place in a situation where the balance of power between the Sami people and the state, or the European Union, is framed by its colonial context. This has consequences with respect to the definition of a common interest and to implementing sanitary measures. The particular features of reindeer herding are seen as a challenge to managing CWD risk, compared with European health standards. We argue that CWD will greatly modify the modalities of Indigenous reindeer herding, whether there are positive cases or not in the Sami reindeer. By implementing new health guidelines, the authorities will create a cascading effect in Sami land and its use. The CWD situation in Fennoscandia is full of uncertainty but may cause a major shift in the organization and the governance of Sápmi. In September 2020, the identification of a new CWD case in a wild reindeer in Norway started a new episode in the disease management in Fennoscandia. Our paper raises various questions linked to understanding this new step in this crisis which is not only epidemiological, but also socio-cultural and political.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2021-03-30},
journal = {Animals},
author = {MARAUD, Simon and ROTURIER, Samuel},
year = {2021},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: Sweden},
pages = {e297},
file = {Maraud et Roturier - 2021 - Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Sami Reindeer Her.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/RJV82I5T/Maraud et Roturier - 2021 - Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Sami Reindeer Her.pdf:application/pdf},
}Transformations of coastal arctic communities in the russian Far East: facts, thoughts and reflections. PISAREVA, L. Espace Populations Sociétés, 2021.
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Paper doi abstract bibtex The article presents the results based on the data of the sociological studies undergone in 2018-2019 with the help of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in the frames of the larger project “Transformations of socio-cultural image of indigenous people of the Arctic coast of Yakutia in the conditions of modernization: experience of interdisciplinary research”. It depicts the socio-economic environment that indigenous population of remote Coastal territories of Russian Eastern Arctic is bound to in their everyday life. The sociological survey was conducted in four settlements situated at the Arctic shore of Yakutia. The conclusions are made concerning the influence of modernization on the lifestyle of indigenous population (mostly Evens and Evenks) through different periods of the history (Preindustrial, Industrial, Postmodern). There was done an attempt to foresee the future development of Coastal Arctic as the tendency based on past and contemporary situation. Historic and contemporary data showed that modernization causing the loss of some elements of traditional lifestyle did not necessarily lead to the extinction of ethnic culture. The strong factor of cultural sustainability is environmental. Arctic indigenous people are tied to the place of birth. Arctic environment ensures continuality of traditional values.
@article{pisareva_transformations_2021,
series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {Transformations of coastal arctic communities in the russian {Far} {East}: facts, thoughts and reflections},
volume = {2020/3-2021/1},
issn = {0755-7809, 2104-3752},
shorttitle = {Transformations of coastal arctic communities in the russian {Far} {East}},
url = {http://journals.openedition.org/eps/10916},
doi = {10.4000/eps.10916},
abstract = {The article presents the results based on the data of the sociological studies undergone in 2018-2019 with the help of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in the frames of the larger project “Transformations of socio-cultural image of indigenous people of the Arctic coast of Yakutia in the conditions of modernization: experience of interdisciplinary research”. It depicts the socio-economic environment that indigenous population of remote Coastal territories of Russian Eastern Arctic is bound to in their everyday life. The sociological survey was conducted in four settlements situated at the Arctic shore of Yakutia. The conclusions are made concerning the influence of modernization on the lifestyle of indigenous population (mostly Evens and Evenks) through different periods of the history (Preindustrial, Industrial, Postmodern). There was done an attempt to foresee the future development of Coastal Arctic as the tendency based on past and contemporary situation. Historic and contemporary data showed that modernization causing the loss of some elements of traditional lifestyle did not necessarily lead to the extinction of ethnic culture. The strong factor of cultural sustainability is environmental. Arctic indigenous people are tied to the place of birth. Arctic environment ensures continuality of traditional values.},
language = {en},
urldate = {2021-03-30},
journal = {Espace Populations Sociétés},
author = {PISAREVA, Larisa},
year = {2021},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: Russia},
file = {Pisareva - 2021 - Transformations of coastal arctic communities in t.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/X73KN6G6/Pisareva - 2021 - Transformations of coastal arctic communities in t.pdf:application/pdf},
}2020 (8)
Medicine as microcosm: pharmaceutical bioprospecting and the political epistemology of nature in industrial–capitalist and indigenous Amazonian societies. TYM, C. Environment and Planning E - Nature and Space, 3(4):1180–1195, 2020.
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Paper doi abstract bibtex Dynamics of economic and spatial rationalization are widely acknowledged characteristics of industrial–capitalist society, but the way in which these dynamics might shape the incorporation of so-called natural spaces into regimes of regulation and valuation is still being conceptualized in political ecology. Extending on the work of theorists who have documented and theorized the extension of neoliberal governance regimes over nature, this article argues that even the knowledge of nature produced in industrial–capitalist society is circumscribed by the biases inherent in its socio-cultural heritage. The argument, which can be described as a political epistemology of nature, is advanced by reference to medical science and industrial pharmacy, which has sought to understand and apprehend the value of nature via pharmaceutical bioprospecting research on medicinal plants. An analysis of one such project, pursued in the indigenous Aguaruna territory of the Peruvian Amazon, illustrates that the same processes of economic and spatial rationalization characteristic of industrial–capitalist society can be seen to recur in its production of knowledge about nature. Pharmaceutical bioprospecting evidences the extension of the rationalization of society and space to the molecular and genetic level, such that medicine becomes the microcosm to the macrocosm of industrial–capitalist society. The article goes on to compare the pharmaceutical industry’s epistemology of nature with non-profit research on indigenous people’s medicinal plants, and finally with the epistemology of nature evidenced in ancestral health-seeking practices of the Shuar, an indigenous Amazonian group bordering the Aguaruna. Drawing on the author’s fieldwork, a comparative analysis of these distinct epistemologies of nature is developed that illustrates a spectrum of constraints upon the agency of nature, each of which to differing extents pre-forms nature’s modes of action, at the same time as that action can never be fully determined by those constraints.
@article{tym_medicine_2020,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Medicine as microcosm: pharmaceutical bioprospecting and the political epistemology of nature in industrial–capitalist and indigenous {Amazonian} societies},
volume = {3},
issn = {2514-8486, 2514-8494},
shorttitle = {Medicine as microcosm},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2514848619897876},
doi = {10.1177/2514848619897876},
abstract = {Dynamics of economic and spatial rationalization are widely acknowledged characteristics of industrial–capitalist society, but the way in which these dynamics might shape the incorporation of so-called natural spaces into regimes of regulation and valuation is still being conceptualized in political ecology. Extending on the work of theorists who have documented and theorized the extension of neoliberal governance regimes over nature, this article argues that even the knowledge of nature produced in industrial–capitalist society is circumscribed by the biases inherent in its socio-cultural heritage. The argument, which can be described as a political epistemology of nature, is advanced by reference to medical science and industrial pharmacy, which has sought to understand and apprehend the value of nature via pharmaceutical bioprospecting research on medicinal plants. An analysis of one such project, pursued in the indigenous Aguaruna territory of the Peruvian Amazon, illustrates that the same processes of economic and spatial rationalization characteristic of industrial–capitalist society can be seen to recur in its production of knowledge about nature. Pharmaceutical bioprospecting evidences the extension of the rationalization of society and space to the molecular and genetic level, such that medicine becomes the microcosm to the macrocosm of industrial–capitalist society. The article goes on to compare the pharmaceutical industry’s epistemology of nature with non-profit research on indigenous people’s medicinal plants, and finally with the epistemology of nature evidenced in ancestral health-seeking practices of the Shuar, an indigenous Amazonian group bordering the Aguaruna. Drawing on the author’s fieldwork, a comparative analysis of these distinct epistemologies of nature is developed that illustrates a spectrum of constraints upon the agency of nature, each of which to differing extents pre-forms nature’s modes of action, at the same time as that action can never be fully determined by those constraints.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
urldate = {2021-04-30},
journal = {Environment and Planning E - Nature and Space},
author = {TYM, Christian},
year = {2020},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Ecuador, Country: Peru},
pages = {1180--1195},
file = {Tym - 2020 - Medicine as microcosm Pharmaceutical bioprospecti.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/SJUWVMU2/Tym - 2020 - Medicine as microcosm Pharmaceutical bioprospecti.pdf:application/pdf},
}The colonial origins of the State in Southern Belize. WAINWRIGHT, J. Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, 46:1–26, 2020.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Recent research in Belizean historiography has improved our understanding of twentiethcentury colonial state relations and the transition to the post-colonial authoritarian democratic state. Following a concise review of these works, I draw on archival documents to examine the origins of the British state in southern Belize. This analysis provides two principal findings. First, the earliest state institutions were founded at the behest of colonists from the defeated Confederate States to facilitate labor discipline over their workers. Once established, local state officials sought to learn about and gain influence over Indigenous communities. Second, the nascent colonial state was relatively authoritarian and inattentive to local accumulation and social needs. Thus from its inception, the state was organized around race and class relations.
@article{wainwright_colonial_2020,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {The colonial origins of the {State} in {Southern} {Belize}},
volume = {46},
issn = {2215-4175, 0377-7316},
url = {https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/anuario/article/view/45072},
doi = {10.15517/aeca.v46i0.45072},
abstract = {Recent research in Belizean historiography has improved our understanding of twentiethcentury colonial state relations and the transition to the post-colonial authoritarian democratic state. Following a concise review of these works, I draw on archival documents to examine the origins of the British state in southern Belize. This analysis provides two principal findings. First, the earliest state institutions were founded at the behest of colonists from the defeated Confederate States to facilitate labor discipline over their workers. Once established, local state officials sought to learn about and gain influence over Indigenous communities. Second, the nascent colonial state was relatively authoritarian and inattentive to local accumulation and social needs. Thus from its inception, the state was organized around race and class relations.},
language = {en},
urldate = {2021-04-21},
journal = {Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos},
author = {WAINWRIGHT, Joel},
year = {2020},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Belize},
pages = {1--26},
file = {Wainwright - 2020 - The Colonial Origins of the State in Southern Beli.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/XBTB8U2C/Wainwright - 2020 - The Colonial Origins of the State in Southern Beli.pdf:application/pdf},
}Trends in Aboriginal water ownership in New South Wales, Australia: the continuities between colonial and neoliberal forms of dispossession. HARTWIG, L., JACKSON, S., & OSBORNE, N. Land Use Policy, 99:e104869, 2020.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex There is significant interest in global trends in Indigenous land titling but relatively less attention given to Indigenous water tenure despite significant reform of water governance regimes in many regions of the world. This paper considers the intertwined and complex history of Aboriginal land and water tenure in the Australian State of New South Wales, within the Murray-Darling Basin. Its temporal scope encompasses the initial dispossession effected by colonization and settler water development; the re-appropriation of land and water under social justice restoration schemes from the 1970s; and the past decade in which the small water holdings in the possession of some Aboriginal organizations have significantly diminished. The paper shows that proprietary rights to land and water acquired through the colonial period strongly conditioned rights of access to water during subsequent eras, particularly when Australian governments separated land and water titles and capped water use to create the world’s biggest water market. Using empirical water entitlement data, we profile the composition, spatial distribution and value of Aboriginal water holdings in the NSW portion of the MurrayDarling Basin. We show that while Aboriginal people in this area constitute nearly 10 % of the total population, their organizations hold only 0.2 % of the available surface water. We identify changes in Aboriginal water holdings between 2009 and 2018 that are indicative of a new wave of dispossession. Almost one fifth of Aboriginal water holdings by volume were lost over 2009−18 (at least 17.2 % in standardized terms). We discuss the factors that render Aboriginal water-holders vulnerable to the loss of valuable water rights and those factors that constrain the ability of all Aboriginal people to fully enjoy the benefits of water access, including water market participation. Additionally, we identify critical omissions in Australian water rights reform and offer recommendations for redress that are of wider international relevance.
@article{hartwig_trends_2020,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Trends in {Aboriginal} water ownership in {New} {South} {Wales}, {Australia}: the continuities between colonial and neoliberal forms of dispossession},
volume = {99},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837719319799},
doi = {10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104869},
abstract = {There is significant interest in global trends in Indigenous land titling but relatively less attention given to Indigenous water tenure despite significant reform of water governance regimes in many regions of the world. This paper considers the intertwined and complex history of Aboriginal land and water tenure in the Australian State of New South Wales, within the Murray-Darling Basin. Its temporal scope encompasses the initial dispossession effected by colonization and settler water development; the re-appropriation of land and water under social justice restoration schemes from the 1970s; and the past decade in which the small water holdings in the possession of some Aboriginal organizations have significantly diminished. The paper shows that proprietary rights to land and water acquired through the colonial period strongly conditioned rights of access to water during subsequent eras, particularly when Australian governments separated land and water titles and capped water use to create the world’s biggest water market. Using empirical water entitlement data, we profile the composition, spatial distribution and value of Aboriginal water holdings in the NSW portion of the MurrayDarling Basin. We show that while Aboriginal people in this area constitute nearly 10 \% of the total population, their organizations hold only 0.2 \% of the available surface water. We identify changes in Aboriginal water holdings between 2009 and 2018 that are indicative of a new wave of dispossession. Almost one fifth of Aboriginal water holdings by volume were lost over 2009−18 (at least 17.2 \% in standardized terms). We discuss the factors that render Aboriginal water-holders vulnerable to the loss of valuable water rights and those factors that constrain the ability of all Aboriginal people to fully enjoy the benefits of water access, including water market participation. Additionally, we identify critical omissions in Australian water rights reform and offer recommendations for redress that are of wider international relevance.},
language = {en},
journal = {Land Use Policy},
author = {HARTWIG, Lana and JACKSON, Sue and OSBORNE, Natalie},
year = {2020},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia, Topic: Water governance},
pages = {e104869},
file = {HARTWIG et al. - 2020 - Trends in Aboriginal water ownership in New South .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/HFEGJV4R/HARTWIG et al. - 2020 - Trends in Aboriginal water ownership in New South .pdf:application/pdf},
}Assembling Birrarung Wilam: a case study of indigenous public artwork in the city. FLASTER, J. & HEAD, L. Australian Geographer, 51(1):19–34, 2020.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Indigenous public artworks in Australian urban spaces have challenged assumptions of Indigenous absence from the city. This paper examines the construction of Birrarung Wilam, in central Melbourne, in the period 2005–2008. We use archival documents and semi-structured interviews to analyse the collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants in a project sponsored by the city. We show the particular mediating contribution of ‘fabricators’: a group of commissioned workers and tradespeople with material-specific expertise. Person to person encounters occurred through the modules of project management, with limited scope for long-term engagement. Despite being embedded in formal state-based recognition, Birrarung Wilam asserts Indigenous self-recognition through the renewal and adaptation of Indigenous material practices and traditions and the refusal to provide straightforward interpretive materials at the site. The study provides support for arguments that challenge a simple binary of co-option and resistance in interpreting such public art practice.
@article{flaster_assembling_2020,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Assembling {Birrarung} {Wilam}: a case study of indigenous public artwork in the city},
volume = {51},
issn = {0004-9182, 1465-3311},
shorttitle = {Assembling {Birrarung} {Wilam}},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00049182.2019.1686730},
doi = {10.1080/00049182.2019.1686730},
abstract = {Indigenous public artworks in Australian urban spaces have challenged assumptions of Indigenous absence from the city. This paper examines the construction of Birrarung Wilam, in central Melbourne, in the period 2005–2008. We use archival documents and semi-structured interviews to analyse the collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants in a project sponsored by the city. We show the particular mediating contribution of ‘fabricators’: a group of commissioned workers and tradespeople with material-specific expertise. Person to person encounters occurred through the modules of project management, with limited scope for long-term engagement. Despite being embedded in formal state-based recognition, Birrarung Wilam asserts Indigenous self-recognition through the renewal and adaptation of Indigenous material practices and traditions and the refusal to provide straightforward interpretive materials at the site. The study provides support for arguments that challenge a simple binary of co-option and resistance in interpreting such public art practice.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
urldate = {2023-11-19},
journal = {Australian Geographer},
author = {FLASTER, Julia and HEAD, Lesley},
year = {2020},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {19--34},
file = {Flaster et Head - 2020 - Assembling Birrarung Wilam a case study of Indige.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/BNBYRB84/Flaster et Head - 2020 - Assembling Birrarung Wilam a case study of Indige.pdf:application/pdf},
}Spatial data and (de)colonization: incorporating indigenous data sovereignty principles into cartographic research. LUCCHESI, A. Cartographica, 55(3):163–169, 2020.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This article asks how a better understanding of Indigenous cultures as inherently scientifically rigorous can change how academic researchers do work in Indigenous communities, and how non-Indigenous researchers, particularly those in fields such as cartography and geography, can learn from Indigenous ideas of protocol and sovereignty as part of the scientific process to transform their work in our communities into something that truly benefits Indigenous peoples. In exploring these questions, this article posits Indigenous data sovereignty and traditional diplomatic protocols as a means of strengthening cartographic and geographic research in collaboration with Indigenous communities and argues that integrating these principles into such research is necessary in work that strives towards decolonization.
@article{lucchesi_spatial_2020,
series = {Transregional},
title = {Spatial data and (de)colonization: incorporating indigenous data sovereignty principles into cartographic research},
volume = {55},
url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/766914},
doi = {10.3138/cart-2019-0022},
abstract = {This article asks how a better understanding of Indigenous cultures as inherently scientifically rigorous can change how academic researchers do work in Indigenous communities, and how non-Indigenous researchers, particularly those in fields such as cartography and geography, can learn from Indigenous ideas of protocol and sovereignty as part of the scientific process to transform their work in our communities into something that truly benefits Indigenous peoples. In exploring these questions, this article posits Indigenous data sovereignty and traditional diplomatic protocols as a means of strengthening cartographic and geographic research in collaboration with Indigenous communities and argues that integrating these principles into such research is necessary in work that strives towards decolonization.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
journal = {Cartographica},
author = {LUCCHESI, Annita},
year = {2020},
keywords = {Region: Transregional, Language: English},
pages = {163--169},
file = {LUCCHESI - 2020 - Spatial data and (de)colonization incorporating i.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/49QNTKYG/LUCCHESI - 2020 - Spatial data and (de)colonization incorporating i.pdf:application/pdf},
}‘Somos Amazonía,’ a new inter-indigenous identity in the Ecuadorian Amazonia: beyond a tacit jus aplidia of ecological origin?. SAQALLI, M., BEGUET, E., MAESTRIPIERI, N., & DE GARINE, E. Perspectiva Geográfica, 25(1):12–34, 2020.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex The double colonization of the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, coming from the Southern Amazon but mainly from the Coast and Sierra, has multiplied perceptions, rights, and management methods in this territory. This article explores these differences and reconstructs the history of this colonization and the rights of access to land, which are private for the colonos (settlers) and mostly communal for the indígenas (indigenous people). These legally differentiated groups are similar in their perception of the territory and their socioeconomic and environmental limitations: most agricultural products are not pro table. Between the growing metropolises and the remaining forest, the countryside is slowly shrinking. Communities are appearing that combine indigenous people and settlers and that copy the indigenous communities’ rights and practices. However, this communal right is acquired for the Amazonian groups but not for others, indígenas or colonos, de ning de facto a jus aplidia, along with jus soli and jus sanguinis.
@article{saqalli_somos_2020,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {‘{Somos} {Amazonía},’ a new inter-indigenous identity in the {Ecuadorian} {Amazonia}: beyond a tacit jus aplidia of ecological origin?},
volume = {25},
url = {https://doi.org/10.19053/01233769.8983},
doi = {10.19053/01233769.8983},
abstract = {The double colonization of the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, coming from the Southern Amazon but mainly from the Coast and Sierra, has multiplied perceptions, rights, and management methods in this territory. This article explores these differences and reconstructs the history of this colonization and the rights of access to land, which are private for the colonos (settlers) and mostly communal for the indígenas (indigenous people). These legally differentiated groups are similar in their perception of the territory and their socioeconomic and environmental limitations: most agricultural products are not pro table. Between the growing metropolises and the remaining forest, the countryside is slowly shrinking. Communities are appearing that combine indigenous people and settlers and that copy the indigenous communities’ rights and practices. However, this communal right is acquired for the Amazonian groups but not for others, indígenas or colonos, de ning de facto a jus aplidia, along with jus soli and jus sanguinis.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
journal = {Perspectiva Geográfica},
author = {SAQALLI, Mehdi and BEGUET, Eva and MAESTRIPIERI, Nicolas and DE GARINE, Eric},
year = {2020},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Ecuador},
pages = {12--34},
file = {Saqalli et al. - 2020 - “SOMOS AMAZONÍA”, UNA NUEVA IDENTIDAD INTERINDÍGEN.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/NKJ83WD9/Saqalli et al. - 2020 - “SOMOS AMAZONÍA”, UNA NUEVA IDENTIDAD INTERINDÍGEN.pdf:application/pdf},
}Development and denial: Guatemalan post-genocide development narratives. CLOUSER, R. Geoforum, 117:93–102, 2020.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This paper investigates how genocide denial in Guatemala is utilized by the elites and the government to undermine Indigenous pursuits of justice, not only for war-era violence but also for ongoing issues related to racism, violence, and economic marginalization. While national lawmakers and economic elites in Guatemala insist that genocide recognition hinders economic development and national reconciliation, I argue that denial perpetuates the multifaceted marginalization of Indigenous populations as it works to maintain the status quo. Drawing from postcolonial memory studies, critical development literature, and decolonial scholars, this paper examines the ‘no hubo genocidio’ narratives alongside contemporary development and ‘solidarity’ campaigns to highlight the discursive and material motivations and implications of these forms of memory/forgetting work. In particular, I interrogate how the actors who produce both the contemporary development campaigns and the genocide denial narratives do so in an attempt to fix a specific collective memory, identity, and vision of development to the national level, which in Guatemala has always been problematic, fraught with racism, violence, and institutional forgetting.
@article{clouser_development_2020,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Development and denial: {Guatemalan} post-genocide development narratives},
volume = {117},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718520302360},
doi = {10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.09.010},
abstract = {This paper investigates how genocide denial in Guatemala is utilized by the elites and the government to undermine Indigenous pursuits of justice, not only for war-era violence but also for ongoing issues related to racism, violence, and economic marginalization. While national lawmakers and economic elites in Guatemala insist that genocide recognition hinders economic development and national reconciliation, I argue that denial perpetuates the multifaceted marginalization of Indigenous populations as it works to maintain the status quo. Drawing from postcolonial memory studies, critical development literature, and decolonial scholars, this paper examines the ‘no hubo genocidio’ narratives alongside contemporary development and ‘solidarity’ campaigns to highlight the discursive and material motivations and implications of these forms of memory/forgetting work. In particular, I interrogate how the actors who produce both the contemporary development campaigns and the genocide denial narratives do so in an attempt to fix a specific collective memory, identity, and vision of development to the national level, which in Guatemala has always been problematic, fraught with racism, violence, and institutional forgetting.},
language = {en},
journal = {Geoforum},
author = {CLOUSER, Rebecca},
year = {2020},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Guatemala},
pages = {93--102},
file = {CLOUSER - 2020 - Development and denial Guatemalan post-genocide d.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/9FYQDW3U/CLOUSER - 2020 - Development and denial Guatemalan post-genocide d.pdf:application/pdf},
}SARS-CoV-2 in the Amazon region: a harbinger of doom for Amerindians. RAMIREZ, J. D., SORDILLO, E., GOTUZZO, E., ZAVALETA CORTIJO, C., CAPLIVSKI, D., NAVARRO, J. C., CRAINEY, J., LUZ, S., DELGADO NOGUERA, L., SCHAUB, R., ROUSSEAU, C., HERRERA, G., OLIVEIRA MIRANDA, M., QUISPE VARGAS, M. T., HOTEZ, P., & PANIZ MONDOLFI, A. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(10):e0008686, 2020.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex As the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic continues to expand, healthcare resources globally have been spread thin. Now, the disease is rapidly spreading across South America, with deadly consequences in areas with already weakened public health systems. The Amazon region is particularly susceptible to the widespread devastation from Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) because of its immunologically fragile native Amerindian inhabitants and epidemiologic vulnerabilities. Herein, we discuss the current situation and potential impact of COVID-19 in the Amazon region and how further spread of the epidemic wave could prove devastating for many Amerindian people living in the Amazon rainforest.
@article{ramirez_sars-cov-2_2020,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {{SARS}-{CoV}-2 in the {Amazon} region: a harbinger of doom for {Amerindians}},
volume = {14},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008686},
doi = {10.1371/journal. pntd.0008686},
abstract = {As the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic continues to expand, healthcare resources globally have been spread thin. Now, the disease is rapidly spreading across South America, with deadly consequences in areas with already weakened public health systems. The Amazon region is particularly susceptible to the widespread devastation from Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) because of its immunologically fragile native Amerindian inhabitants and epidemiologic vulnerabilities. Herein, we discuss the current situation and potential impact of COVID-19 in the Amazon region and how further spread of the epidemic wave could prove devastating for many Amerindian people living in the Amazon rainforest.},
language = {en},
number = {10},
journal = {PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases},
author = {RAMIREZ, Juan David and SORDILLO, Emilia and GOTUZZO, Eduardo and ZAVALETA CORTIJO, Carol and CAPLIVSKI, Daniel and NAVARRO, Juan Carlos and CRAINEY, James and LUZ, Sergio and DELGADO NOGUERA, Lourdes and SCHAUB, Roxane and ROUSSEAU, Cyril and HERRERA, Giovanny and OLIVEIRA MIRANDA, Maria and QUISPE VARGAS, Maria Teresa and HOTEZ, Peter and PANIZ MONDOLFI, Alberto},
year = {2020},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Colombia, Country: Ecuador, Country: Brazil, Country: Venezuela, Country: Peru, Country: France-French Guiana, Topic: Health},
pages = {e0008686},
file = {Ramírez et al. - SARS-CoV-2 in the Amazon region A harbinger of do.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/ETA4EYEY/Ramírez et al. - SARS-CoV-2 in the Amazon region A harbinger of do.pdf:application/pdf},
}2019 (8)
Ambivalent cartographies: Exploring the legacies of indigenous land titling through participatory mapping. ANTHIAS, P. Critique of Anthropology, 39(2):222–242, 2019.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This paper reflects on the possibilities and limits of participatory mapping as a tool for interrogating the power–knowledge inequalities that structure indigenous peoples’ engagements with postcolonial state cartography and bureaucracy. I describe mapping activities conducted in a remote Guaraní community in the Bolivian Chaco as part of a research project exploring the dynamics and legacies of Native Community Lands, a national indigenous land titling programme. While these exercises were designed to explore the disjunctures between state and indigenous knowledges of territory, they generated unexpected power dynamics that led me to reflect more deeply on the power of maps, the pitfalls of ‘countermapping’ as an activist practice and my own imbrication in a bureaucratic field of power. The paper concludes that participatory mapping can be a fruitful if ambivalent method for studying state bureaucracy, which demonstrates the value of examining the legal-cartographic knowledges of the state ‘from the margins’ – including from the perspective of the people and places they claim to represent.
@article{anthias_ambivalent_2019,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Ambivalent cartographies: {Exploring} the legacies of indigenous land titling through participatory mapping},
volume = {39},
url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308275X19842920},
doi = {10.1177/0308275X19842920},
abstract = {This paper reflects on the possibilities and limits of participatory mapping as a tool for interrogating the power–knowledge inequalities that structure indigenous peoples’ engagements with postcolonial state cartography and bureaucracy. I describe mapping activities conducted in a remote Guaraní community in the Bolivian Chaco as part of a research project exploring the dynamics and legacies of Native Community Lands, a national indigenous land titling programme. While these exercises were designed to explore the disjunctures between state and indigenous knowledges of territory, they generated unexpected power dynamics that led me to reflect more deeply on the power of maps, the pitfalls of ‘countermapping’ as an activist practice and my own imbrication in a bureaucratic field of power. The paper concludes that participatory mapping can be a fruitful if ambivalent method for studying state bureaucracy, which demonstrates the value of examining the legal-cartographic knowledges of the state ‘from the margins’ – including from the perspective of the people and places they claim to represent.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Critique of Anthropology},
author = {ANTHIAS, Penelope},
year = {2019},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Bolivia, Topic: Mapping},
pages = {222--242},
file = {ANTHIAS - 2019 - Ambivalent cartographies Exploring the legacies o.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/MFKT65X3/ANTHIAS - 2019 - Ambivalent cartographies Exploring the legacies o.pdf:application/pdf},
}Peatland and wetland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia: Indigenous classifications and perspectives. SCHULZ, C., MARTIN BRAÑAS, M., NUÑEZ PEREZ, C., DEL AGUILA VILLACORTA, M., LAURIE, N., LAWSON, I., & ROUCOUX, K. Ecology and Society, 24(2):e12, 2019.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Many indigenous people hold detailed ecological knowledge about their environment and have developed complex classifications of ecosystem types in their own languages. These classification systems may be based on characteristics including the availability of key resources, salient plant species, and cultural factors, among others. Indigenous environmental knowledge has been of interest to (ethno-)ecologists, geographers, anthropologists, and other scientists looking to learn from indigenous people, especially in newly emerging research topics. We identified and interpreted an ecosystem classification system of the Urarina, a small indigenous nation based in the Chambira River basin, a peatland-rich area of Peruvian Amazonia. Our findings, based on semistructured interviews, participatory mapping exercises, and site visits, indicate that the Urarina distinguish between ecosystems according to vegetation physiognomy, certain (palm) tree species, hydrology, and soil appearance, and that their use of natural resources varies between different ecosystems. Two Urarina ecosystems, jiiri and alaka, are almost certainly associated with the presence of peat soils and are of special cultural significance. The Urarina ecosystem classification system thus offers insights and inspiration for ecologists studying peatlands and other wetlands in the Peruvian Amazon who, thus far, have mostly focused on floristic and structural analyses only. Not least, our research highlights the importance of the peatlands for local people, beyond their role for the global climate system as a substantial carbon store.
@article{schulz_peatland_2019,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Peatland and wetland ecosystems in {Peruvian} {Amazonia}: {Indigenous} classifications and perspectives},
volume = {24},
url = {https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss2/art12/},
doi = {10.5751/ES-10886-240212},
abstract = {Many indigenous people hold detailed ecological knowledge about their environment and have developed complex classifications of ecosystem types in their own languages. These classification systems may be based on characteristics including the availability of key resources, salient plant species, and cultural factors, among others. Indigenous environmental knowledge has been of interest to (ethno-)ecologists, geographers, anthropologists, and other scientists looking to learn from indigenous people, especially in newly emerging research topics. We identified and interpreted an ecosystem classification system of the Urarina, a small indigenous nation based in the Chambira River basin, a peatland-rich area of Peruvian Amazonia. Our findings, based on semistructured interviews, participatory mapping exercises, and site visits, indicate that the Urarina distinguish between ecosystems according to vegetation physiognomy, certain (palm) tree species, hydrology, and soil appearance, and that their use of natural resources varies between different ecosystems. Two Urarina ecosystems, jiiri and alaka, are almost certainly associated with the presence of peat soils and are of special cultural significance. The Urarina ecosystem classification system thus offers insights and inspiration for ecologists studying peatlands and other wetlands in the Peruvian Amazon who, thus far, have mostly focused on floristic and structural analyses only. Not least, our research highlights the importance of the peatlands for local people, beyond their role for the global climate system as a substantial carbon store.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Ecology and Society},
author = {SCHULZ, Christopher and MARTIN BRAÑAS, Manuel and NUÑEZ PEREZ, Cecilia and DEL AGUILA VILLACORTA, Margarita and LAURIE, Nina and LAWSON, Ian and ROUCOUX, Katherine},
year = {2019},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Peru},
pages = {e12},
file = {SCHULZ et al. - 2019 - Peatland and wetland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazon.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/DSCID7DG/SCHULZ et al. - 2019 - Peatland and wetland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazon.pdf:application/pdf},
}Del antagonismo territorial a la convivencia territorial, equilibrar lo macro y micro político. CANIUQUEO HUIRCAPAN, S. Journal of Latin American Geography, 18(3):158–164, 2019.
bibtex
bibtex
@article{caniuqueo_huircapan_antagonismo_2019,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Del antagonismo territorial a la convivencia territorial, equilibrar lo macro y micro político},
volume = {18},
language = {es},
number = {3},
journal = {Journal of Latin American Geography},
author = {CANIUQUEO HUIRCAPAN, Sergio},
year = {2019},
keywords = {Country: Chile, Language: English, Region: Latin America / Caribbean},
pages = {158--164},
file = {CANIUQUEO HUIRCAPAN - 2019 - Del antagonismo territorial a la convivencia terri.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/IAQWQWW5/CANIUQUEO HUIRCAPAN - 2019 - Del antagonismo territorial a la convivencia terri.pdf:application/pdf},
}It doesn't make me any less Aboriginal': the complex politics of translocal place‐making for Indigenous tertiary student migrants. HARRIS, D. & PROUT QUICKE, S. Population, Space and Place, 25(3):e2191, 2019.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Indigenous migratory practices have never been comfortably explained using deter- ministic theories of migration. In this paper, we argue that translocalism offers new hopeful possibilities for building more robust and nuanced understandings of Indige- nous migration and for extending theorisations of translocality in postcolonial settler‐states. Drawing on empirical evidence from a small‐scale exploratory study of Indigenous adults who migrated from rural/remote Australia, to Perth, Western Australia, to study at a university, we suggest that a particular politics of place‐making characterises Indigenous translocal subjectivities in settler states. These politics are evidenced by the ways in which the very act of movement from rural/remote areas to large cities for education can draw the authenticity of Indigenous identities into contestation. It also speaks to the resultant importance of translocal networks and places that provide relational spaces to share experiences of, and respond to, these contestations. The participants in this study made use of Indigenous student centres at their universities to develop a sense of place, build translocal networks, nurture their cultural identities, and contest settler assumptions that situate “authentic” Indigenous identities in a remote wilderness past.
@article{harris_it_2019,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {It doesn't make me any less {Aboriginal}': the complex politics of translocal place‐making for {Indigenous} tertiary student migrants},
volume = {25},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2191},
doi = {10.1002/psp.2191},
abstract = {Indigenous migratory practices have never been comfortably explained using deter- ministic theories of migration. In this paper, we argue that translocalism offers new hopeful possibilities for building more robust and nuanced understandings of Indige- nous migration and for extending theorisations of translocality in postcolonial settler‐states. Drawing on empirical evidence from a small‐scale exploratory study of Indigenous adults who migrated from rural/remote Australia, to Perth, Western Australia, to study at a university, we suggest that a particular politics of place‐making characterises Indigenous translocal subjectivities in settler states. These politics are evidenced by the ways in which the very act of movement from rural/remote areas to large cities for education can draw the authenticity of Indigenous identities into contestation. It also speaks to the resultant importance of translocal networks and places that provide relational spaces to share experiences of, and respond to, these contestations. The participants in this study made use of Indigenous student centres at their universities to develop a sense of place, build translocal networks, nurture their cultural identities, and contest settler assumptions that situate “authentic” Indigenous identities in a remote wilderness past.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
journal = {Population, Space and Place},
author = {HARRIS, Desiree and PROUT QUICKE, Sarah},
year = {2019},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {e2191},
file = {HARRIS et PROUT QUICKE - 2019 - It doesn't make me any less Aboriginal' the compl.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/43JXQEQ4/HARRIS et PROUT QUICKE - 2019 - It doesn't make me any less Aboriginal' the compl.pdf:application/pdf},
}The conflict over land ownership and unauthorized construction in the Negev. YAHEL, H. Contemporary Review of the Middle East, 6(3-4):352–369, 2019.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Since the early days of Israeli independence, there has been a continuous dispute over land rights and settlements in the Negev region, between the Bedouins and the State of Israel. Its most notable manifestation is unauthorized construction dispersed over vast tracts of land, with no consideration for existing zoning plans and in locations undesignated or unfit for human habitation. As a result, the Bedouins, one of Israel’s most impoverished population groups, experience significant difficulties in benefitting from public services available to other citizens. The situation also impedes the development of the Negev for the benefit of all its inhabitants. This article will trace the dispute back to its roots, outline the main public actions taken, and suggest an explanation.
@article{yahel_conflict_2019,
series = {Africa / {Middle} {East}},
title = {The conflict over land ownership and unauthorized construction in the {Negev}},
volume = {6},
issn = {2347-7989, 2349-0055},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2347798919872836},
doi = {10.1177/2347798919872836},
abstract = {Since the early days of Israeli independence, there has been a continuous dispute over land rights and settlements in the Negev region, between the Bedouins and the State of Israel. Its most notable manifestation is unauthorized construction dispersed over vast tracts of land, with no consideration for existing zoning plans and in locations undesignated or unfit for human habitation. As a result, the Bedouins, one of Israel’s most impoverished population groups, experience significant difficulties in benefitting from public services available to other citizens. The situation also impedes the development of the Negev for the benefit of all its inhabitants. This article will trace the dispute back to its roots, outline the main public actions taken, and suggest an explanation.},
language = {en},
number = {3-4},
urldate = {2021-07-07},
journal = {Contemporary Review of the Middle East},
author = {YAHEL, Havatzelet},
year = {2019},
keywords = {Region: Africa / Middle East, Language: English, Country: Israel},
pages = {352--369},
file = {Yahel - 2019 - The Conflict Over Land Ownership and Unauthorized .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/S7JUFF4S/Yahel - 2019 - The Conflict Over Land Ownership and Unauthorized .pdf:application/pdf},
}Public attitudes to inequality in water distribution: Insights from preferences for water reallocation from irrigators to Aboriginal Australians. JACKSON, S., HATTON MACDONALD, D., & BARK, R. Water Resources Research, 55(7):6033–6048, 2019.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Water allocation regimes that adjudicate between competing uses are in many countries under pressure to adapt to increasing demands, climate‐driven shortages, expectations for equity of access, and societal changes in values and priorities. International authorities expound standards for national allocation regimes that include robust processes for addressing the needs of “new entrants” and for varying existing entitlements within sustainable limits. The claims of Indigenous peoples to water represents a newly recognized set of rights and interests that will test the ability of allocation regimes to address the global water governance goal of equity. No study has sought to identify public attitudes or willingness to pay for a fairer allocation of water rights between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people. We surveyed households from the jurisdictions of Australia's Murray‐Darling Basin, a region undergoing a historic government‐led recovery of water, and found that 69.2% of respondents support the principle of reallocating a small amount of water from irrigators to Aboriginal people via the water market. Using contingent valuation, we estimated households are willing to pay A$21.78 in a one‐off levy. The aggregate value calculated for households in the basin's jurisdictions was A$74.5 million, which is almost double a recent government commitment to fund the acquisition of entitlements for Aboriginal nations of this basin. Results varied by state of residency and affinity with environmental groups. An information treatment that presented narrative accounts from Aboriginal people influenced the results. Insights from this study can inform water reallocation processes.
@article{jackson_public_2019,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Public attitudes to inequality in water distribution: {Insights} from preferences for water reallocation from irrigators to {Aboriginal} {Australians}},
volume = {55},
issn = {0043-1397, 1944-7973},
shorttitle = {Public {Attitudes} to {Inequality} in {Water} {Distribution}},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019WR025011},
doi = {10.1029/2019WR025011},
abstract = {Water allocation regimes that adjudicate between competing uses are in many countries under pressure to adapt to increasing demands, climate‐driven shortages, expectations for equity of access, and societal changes in values and priorities. International authorities expound standards for national allocation regimes that include robust processes for addressing the needs of “new entrants” and for varying existing entitlements within sustainable limits. The claims of Indigenous peoples to water represents a newly recognized set of rights and interests that will test the ability of allocation regimes to address the global water governance goal of equity. No study has sought to identify public attitudes or willingness to pay for a fairer allocation of water rights between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people. We surveyed households from the jurisdictions of Australia's Murray‐Darling Basin, a region undergoing a historic government‐led recovery of water, and found that 69.2\% of respondents support the principle of reallocating a small amount of water from irrigators to Aboriginal people via the water market. Using contingent valuation, we estimated households are willing to pay A\$21.78 in a one‐off levy. The aggregate value calculated for households in the basin's jurisdictions was A\$74.5 million, which is almost double a recent government commitment to fund the acquisition of entitlements for Aboriginal nations of this basin. Results varied by state of residency and affinity with environmental groups. An information treatment that presented narrative accounts from Aboriginal people influenced the results. Insights from this study can inform water reallocation processes.},
language = {en},
number = {7},
urldate = {2023-07-30},
journal = {Water Resources Research},
author = {JACKSON, Sue and HATTON MACDONALD, Darla and BARK, Rosalind},
year = {2019},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {6033--6048},
file = {Jackson et al. - 2019 - Public Attitudes to Inequality in Water Distributi.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/33YRQCDM/Jackson et al. - 2019 - Public Attitudes to Inequality in Water Distributi.pdf:application/pdf},
}The UN local communities and Indigenous peoples’ platform: a traditional ecological knowledge-based evaluation. SHAWOO, Z. & THORNTON, T. WIREs Climate Change, 10(3):e575, 2019.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This review evaluates the potential of the proposed local communities and Indigenous peoples’ platform to effectively engage traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) for climate policy. Specifically, we assess the platform's potential to enable greater representation and participation of Indigenous peoples (IPs) within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). An analytical framework based on the extensive TEK and environmental management literature is developed, with a set of criteria identified against which to evaluate the platform. We find that although the process of designing the platform appears to be inclusive of Indigenous views, the structure itself does not recognize the roles that unequal power relations and colonialism play in marginalizing IPs. Limited attention is paid to the institutional barriers within the UNFCCC and the drawbacks of pursuing knowledge “integration” as an end in itself. Based on this, recommendations for improving the platform structure are put forward including using a rightsbased framing, giving greater decision-making power to IPs, and developing mechanisms to ensure the holistic integrity of TEK and build the overall resilience of climate mitigation and adaptation systems.
@article{shawoo_local_2019,
series = {Transregional},
title = {The {UN} local communities and {Indigenous} peoples’ platform: a traditional ecological knowledge-based evaluation},
volume = {10},
issn = {1757-7780, 1757-7799},
shorttitle = {The {UN} local communities and {Indigenous} peoples' platform},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.575},
doi = {10.1002/wcc.575},
abstract = {This review evaluates the potential of the proposed local communities and Indigenous peoples’ platform to effectively engage traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) for climate policy. Specifically, we assess the platform's potential to enable greater representation and participation of Indigenous peoples (IPs) within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). An analytical framework based on the extensive TEK and environmental management literature is developed, with a set of criteria identified against which to evaluate the platform. We find that although the process of designing the platform appears to be inclusive of Indigenous views, the structure itself does not recognize the roles that unequal power relations and colonialism play in marginalizing IPs. Limited attention is paid to the institutional barriers within the UNFCCC and the drawbacks of pursuing knowledge “integration” as an end in itself. Based on this, recommendations for improving the platform structure are put forward including using a rightsbased framing, giving greater decision-making power to IPs, and developing mechanisms to ensure the holistic integrity of TEK and build the overall resilience of climate mitigation and adaptation systems.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2023-07-30},
journal = {WIREs Climate Change},
author = {SHAWOO, Zoha and THORNTON, Thomas},
year = {2019},
keywords = {Region: Transregional, Language: English},
pages = {e575},
file = {Shawoo et Thornton - 2019 - The UN local communities and Indigenous peoples' p.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/4XYKATIH/Shawoo et Thornton - 2019 - The UN local communities and Indigenous peoples' p.pdf:application/pdf},
}That’s the problem with that lake; it changes sides’: Mapping extraction and ecological exhaustion in the Atacama. BABIDGE, S., KALAZICH, F., PRIETO, M., & YAGER, K. Journal of Political Ecology, 26(1):738–760, 2019.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Multiple dynamics produce the ecological present. For the past 30 years or more, in the southern Atacama salt pan (Salar) in northern Chile, extractive industries have been accumulating minerals and water in exhaustive quantities, taking ever more than may be regenerated. However, the exhaustion of the Salar de Atacama involves a more complex set of symptoms than demonstrable environmental depletion. Fragmented scientific knowledge of the salt pan due to the privatization of water and under-regulation of mining provides a partial explanation for this complexity. In this article, we discuss these political conditions of environmental knowledge and, using a range of methodologies, we show that the scale of resource extraction threatens social and environmental harm and exhaustion may manifest in unexpected ways. We used remote sensing data to elaborate maps that reflect environmental change (1985-2017), relative to the intensification of extractive activity for copper and lithium salts in the area. Using these data, we undertook ethnographic and participatory mapping work to discuss with people from the Peine Indigenous community how they have experienced ecological change related to mineral and water extraction in the southern Salar. A review of the historical and archaeological material helps us to show the depth of Indigenous people's relationships to and knowledge of the salt pan and surrounds, and how social memory may be ecological. Combining the different results of our research, we argue that ecological exhaustion emerges from social, environmental and political conditions driven by both tangible and uncertain impacts of industrial extraction . Revealing the se conditions of exhaustion raise s key questions about the complexity of the effects of extraction.
@article{babidge_thats_2019,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {That’s the problem with that lake; it changes sides’: {Mapping} extraction and ecological exhaustion in the {Atacama}},
volume = {26},
url = {https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/2139/},
doi = {10.2458/v26i1.23169},
abstract = {Multiple dynamics produce the ecological present. For the past 30 years or more, in the southern Atacama salt pan (Salar) in northern Chile, extractive industries have been accumulating minerals and water in exhaustive quantities, taking ever more than may be regenerated. However, the exhaustion of the Salar de Atacama involves a more complex set of symptoms than demonstrable environmental depletion. Fragmented scientific knowledge of the salt pan due to the privatization of water and under-regulation of mining provides a partial explanation for this complexity. In this article, we discuss these political conditions of environmental knowledge and, using a range of methodologies, we show that the scale of resource extraction threatens social and environmental harm and exhaustion may manifest in unexpected ways. We used remote sensing data to elaborate maps that reflect environmental change (1985-2017), relative to the intensification of extractive activity for copper and lithium salts in the area. Using these data, we undertook ethnographic and participatory mapping work to discuss with people from the Peine Indigenous community how they have experienced ecological change related to mineral and water extraction in the southern Salar. A review of the historical and archaeological material helps us to show the depth of Indigenous people's relationships to and knowledge of the salt pan and surrounds, and how social memory may be ecological. Combining the different results of our research, we argue that ecological exhaustion emerges from social, environmental and political conditions driven by both tangible and uncertain impacts of industrial extraction . Revealing the se conditions of exhaustion raise s key questions about the complexity of the effects of extraction.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
journal = {Journal of Political Ecology},
author = {BABIDGE, Sally and KALAZICH, Fernanda and PRIETO, Manuel and YAGER, Karina},
year = {2019},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Chile, Topic: Mining},
pages = {738--760},
file = {BABIDGE et al. - 2019 - That’s the problem with that lake\; it changes side.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/UNT6BW3X/BABIDGE et al. - 2019 - That’s the problem with that lake\; it changes side.pdf:application/pdf},
}2018 (8)
Building food security in the Canadian Arctic through the development of sustainable community greenhouses and gardening. LAMALICE, A., HAILLOT, D., LAMONTAGNE, M., HERRMANN, T., GIBOUT, S., BLANGY, S., MARTIN, J., COXAM, V., ARSENAULT, J., MUNRO, L., & COURCHESNE, F. Ecoscience, 25(4):325–341, 2018.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Disruptions in the way of life of indigenous peoples from the Far North have greatly affected their ability to meet their food needs. The implementation of community greenhouse and gardening projects is one of the initiatives taken to address this issue in Nunavik. Through a mixed-method approach, we analyze social benefits and challenges, as well as the potential food productivity and nutritional contributions of these projects. We discuss the potential of current greenhouse energy optimization scenarios and we address the benefits of Kuujjuaq’s greenhouse in terms of carbon dioxide mitigation. Discussions with the local stakeholders highlighted technical challenges regarding the energy supply, its efficient management and the supply of soil in sufficient quantities. Our results highlight the interconnectedness and complexity of food and energy systems in Nunavik. They show that the establishment of local fresh food production corresponds to a need expressed by the residents and could bypass some of the difficulties associated with the conveyance and freshness of food sold at the supermarket. They also indicate that the implementation of such production poses many challenges that require taking into account the geographical isolation, the arctic climate and the availability of local resources.
@article{lamalice_building_2018,
series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {Building food security in the {Canadian} {Arctic} through the development of sustainable community greenhouses and gardening},
volume = {25},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/11956860.2018.1493260},
doi = {10.1080/11956860.2018.1493260},
abstract = {Disruptions in the way of life of indigenous peoples from the Far North have greatly affected their ability to meet their food needs. The implementation of community greenhouse and gardening projects is one of the initiatives taken to address this issue in Nunavik. Through a mixed-method approach, we analyze social benefits and challenges, as well as the potential food productivity and nutritional contributions of these projects. We discuss the potential of current greenhouse energy optimization scenarios and we address the benefits of Kuujjuaq’s greenhouse in terms of carbon dioxide mitigation. Discussions with the local stakeholders highlighted technical challenges regarding the energy supply, its efficient management and the supply of soil in sufficient quantities. Our results highlight the interconnectedness and complexity of food and energy systems in Nunavik. They show that the establishment of local fresh food production corresponds to a need expressed by the residents and could bypass some of the difficulties associated with the conveyance and freshness of food sold at the supermarket. They also indicate that the implementation of such production poses many challenges that require taking into account the geographical isolation, the arctic climate and the availability of local resources.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
journal = {Ecoscience},
author = {LAMALICE, Annie and HAILLOT, Didier and LAMONTAGNE, Marc-André and HERRMANN, Thora and GIBOUT, Stéphane and BLANGY, Sylvie and MARTIN, Jean-Louis and COXAM, Véronique and ARSENAULT, Julien and MUNRO, Lara and COURCHESNE, François},
year = {2018},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: Canada},
pages = {325--341},
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}Wrangling settler colonialism in the urban U.S. West: Indigenous and Mexican American struggles for social justice. BARRACLOUGH, L. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(2):513–523, 2018.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This article contributes to geographical scholarship on settler colonialism by exploring its urban valences in the U.S. West. Urban development in the U.S. West has long been guided by ideologies of the cowboy and frontier, which seek to explain and justify settler occupation of indigenous and Mexican land. Produced overwhelmingly in cities, frontier narratives have shaped urban landscapes and organized urban industries in powerful ways. As a result, indigenous and migrant populations in the urban U.S. West must wrestle with frontier myths—and the institutions that produce them—in their struggles for social justice. In this article, I examine two recent struggles over urban land use, economic development, and public space in the U.S. West that engaged settler myths of the frontier. These include the purchase, relocation, and operation of Rawhide Wild West Town in Phoenix, Arizona, by the Gila River Indian Community and failed efforts by charros (Mexican cowboys) to use a major sports facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. Together, these cases show that U.S. settler colonialism is far from settled but that settler nostalgia for the frontier—and the urban institutions that produce it—imposes real limits on the abilities of indigenous and marginalized peoples to pursue and achieve their visions of social justice.
@article{barraclough_wrangling_2018,
series = {North {America}},
title = {Wrangling settler colonialism in the urban {U}.{S}. {West}: {Indigenous} and {Mexican} {American} struggles for social justice},
volume = {108},
issn = {2469-4452, 2469-4460},
shorttitle = {Wrangling {Settler} {Colonialism} in the {Urban} {U}.{S}. {West}},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2017.1374825},
doi = {10.1080/24694452.2017.1374825},
abstract = {This article contributes to geographical scholarship on settler colonialism by exploring its urban valences in the U.S. West. Urban development in the U.S. West has long been guided by ideologies of the cowboy and frontier, which seek to explain and justify settler occupation of indigenous and Mexican land. Produced overwhelmingly in cities, frontier narratives have shaped urban landscapes and organized urban industries in powerful ways. As a result, indigenous and migrant populations in the urban U.S. West must wrestle with frontier myths—and the institutions that produce them—in their struggles for social justice. In this article, I examine two recent struggles over urban land use, economic development, and public space in the U.S. West that engaged settler myths of the frontier. These include the purchase, relocation, and operation of Rawhide Wild West Town in Phoenix, Arizona, by the Gila River Indian Community and failed efforts by charros (Mexican cowboys) to use a major sports facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. Together, these cases show that U.S. settler colonialism is far from settled but that settler nostalgia for the frontier—and the urban institutions that produce it—imposes real limits on the abilities of indigenous and marginalized peoples to pursue and achieve their visions of social justice.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2023-10-29},
journal = {Annals of the American Association of Geographers},
author = {BARRACLOUGH, Laura},
year = {2018},
keywords = {Region: North America, Language: English, Country: USA},
pages = {513--523},
file = {Barraclough - 2018 - Wrangling Settler Colonialism in the Urban U.S. We.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/WC6DQWAC/Barraclough - 2018 - Wrangling Settler Colonialism in the Urban U.S. We.pdf:application/pdf},
}Migration and agrarian transformation in Indigenous Mexico. ROBSON, J., KLOOSTER, D., WORTHEN, H., & HERNANDEZ DIAZ, J. Journal of Agrarian Change, 18(2):299–323, 2018.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Migration is of particular concern to Indigenous peoples and communities. It physically separates those who migrate from the land upon which collective processes of labour and ritual practice are often based, it affects congruence between individual and collective rationality (as migrants make the choice to maintain or relinquish community membership), and it robs communities of the adult residents who can be essential for projects of collective action. Using the concept of comunalidad, created by Indigenous intellectuals in Oaxaca, Mexico to analyse the importance of alternative practices surrounding land, labour, governance, and ritual found in the region, we show that while Indigenous villages are profoundly affected by different forms of migration, migration itself is not necessarily a “death knell” for Indigenous peasants. We argue that communities struggle—often successfully—to find ways to evolve and reconfigure themselves economically and politically, incorporating migration into the fabric of their daily lives and organizational structures. To make this argument, we draw on ethnographic research conducted with Indigenous Oaxacan transnational communities, both in the United States and Mexico.
@article{robson_migration_2018,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Migration and agrarian transformation in {Indigenous} {Mexico}},
volume = {18},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joac.12224},
doi = {10.1111/joac.12224},
abstract = {Migration is of particular concern to Indigenous peoples and communities. It physically separates those who migrate from the land upon which collective processes of labour and ritual practice are often based, it affects congruence between individual and collective rationality (as migrants make the choice to maintain or relinquish community membership), and it robs communities of the adult residents who can be essential for projects of collective action. Using the concept of comunalidad, created by Indigenous intellectuals in Oaxaca, Mexico to analyse the importance of alternative practices surrounding land, labour, governance, and ritual found in the region, we show that while Indigenous villages are profoundly affected by different forms of migration, migration itself is not necessarily a “death knell” for Indigenous peasants. We argue that communities struggle—often successfully—to find ways to evolve and reconfigure themselves economically and politically, incorporating migration into the fabric of their daily lives and organizational structures. To make this argument, we draw on ethnographic research conducted with Indigenous Oaxacan transnational communities, both in the United States and Mexico.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Journal of Agrarian Change},
author = {ROBSON, James and KLOOSTER, Daniel and WORTHEN, Holly and HERNANDEZ DIAZ, Jorge},
year = {2018},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Mexico},
pages = {299--323},
file = {ROBSON et al. - 2018 - Migration and agrarian transformation in Indigenou.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/29J8EANY/ROBSON et al. - 2018 - Migration and agrarian transformation in Indigenou.pdf:application/pdf},
}Online and offline representations of biocultural diversity: A political ecology perspective on nature-based tourism and Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Pantanal. ARTS, K., RABELO, M. T., FIGUEIREDO, D. M., MAFFEY, G., IORIS, A. A., & GIRARD, P. Sustainability, 10:e3643, 2018.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex The concept of biocultural diversity is confronted with contemporary changes that impact on local communities, such as globalization and digital transformations. Engaging the conceptual flexibility of ‘biocultural diversity’, we studied nature-based tourism at the intersection of indigenous communities and the digital realm. We employed a political ecology perspective to examine online and offline representations of biocultural diversity in the Brazilian Pantanal, one of the biggest wetlands in the world, and home to groups of peoples known as the Pantaneiros. Data from interviews with 48 stakeholders in the tourist sector were structured along three ‘myths’—the Uncivilised, Unrestrained, and Unchanged—for which we have also constructed counter narratives. Each myth denoted the primacy of biodiversity, and ignored broader dimensions of the Pantanal as a bioculturally diverse landscape. The relationships of the Pantaneiros with their environment were found to be intricate and had clear repercussions for tourism, but ironically, reference to the Pantaneiro culture in nature-based tourism was superficial. Moreover, thriving on the myths, this form of tourism perpetuates skewed power structures and social inequalities. Lower-class Pantaneiros likely suffer most from this. We recommend stakeholder engagement with a biocultural design that facilitates the integration of other-than-biodiversity values, and that thereby promotes sustainability of the entire social-ecological system.
@article{arts_online_2018,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Online and offline representations of biocultural diversity: {A} political ecology perspective on nature-based tourism and {Indigenous} communities in the {Brazilian} {Pantanal}},
volume = {10},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/10/3643},
doi = {10.3390/su10103643},
abstract = {The concept of biocultural diversity is confronted with contemporary changes that impact on local communities, such as globalization and digital transformations. Engaging the conceptual flexibility of ‘biocultural diversity’, we studied nature-based tourism at the intersection of indigenous communities and the digital realm. We employed a political ecology perspective to examine online and offline representations of biocultural diversity in the Brazilian Pantanal, one of the biggest wetlands in the world, and home to groups of peoples known as the Pantaneiros. Data from interviews with 48 stakeholders in the tourist sector were structured along three ‘myths’—the Uncivilised, Unrestrained, and Unchanged—for which we have also constructed counter narratives. Each myth denoted the primacy of biodiversity, and ignored broader dimensions of the Pantanal as a bioculturally diverse landscape. The relationships of the Pantaneiros with their environment were found to be intricate and had clear repercussions for tourism, but ironically, reference to the Pantaneiro culture in nature-based tourism was superficial. Moreover, thriving on the myths, this form of tourism perpetuates skewed power structures and social inequalities. Lower-class Pantaneiros likely suffer most from this. We recommend stakeholder engagement with a biocultural design that facilitates the integration of other-than-biodiversity values, and that thereby promotes sustainability of the entire social-ecological system.},
language = {en},
journal = {Sustainability},
author = {ARTS, Koen and RABELO, Maiara Thaisa and FIGUEIREDO, Daniela Maimoni and MAFFEY, Georgina and IORIS, Antonio Augusto and GIRARD, Pierre},
year = {2018},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Brazil},
pages = {e3643},
file = {ARTS et al. - 2018 - Online and offline representations of biocultural .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/ALBC8N28/ARTS et al. - 2018 - Online and offline representations of biocultural .pdf:application/pdf},
}Amazonian struggles for recognition. FRASER, J. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(4):718–732, 2018.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Since the 1988 Constitution, forest peoples of Brazilian Amazonia have been struggling for territorial recognition. Yet studies of recognition in post colonial contexts, based on cases with clear settler/indigenous distinctions, are highly critical of recognition, seeing it as a form of “neoliberal multiculturalism,” a co-option of subaltern identities with limited emancipatory potential. I question these critiques by examining struggles for legal and intersubjective recognition of subaltern identity categories “Indio” and “Agroextractivista” and corresponding territories of the “Terra Indigena” and “Reserva Extractivista” on the Madeira and Tapajos Rivers in Brazilian Amazonia, where heterogeneous origins of forest peoples belie simple settler/indigenous distinctions. I engage a key question, the relationships of subaltern peoples with state institutions, and highlight a finding, the relevance of the state’s “proximity,” often underestimated in the literature. I build a theory of decolonial recognition combining Axel Honneth’s idea of recognition as love, rights and solidarity with David Scott’s late-Foucauldian reworking of Frantz Fanon. Herein, the Fanonian colonised subjectivity is shaped by the negation of love, rights and solidarity, that is to say, misrecognition. The subject requires legal and intersubjective recognition in order to positively incorporate love, rights and solidarity into their “practices of techniques of the self.” On the Tapajos, territorial struggles are more successful owing to a stronger sphere of legal recognition – the presence of state institutions – and a history of Church and union grassroots organisation, both supporting greater intersubjective recognition among forest peoples. On the Madeira, a much weaker sphere of legal recognition has resulted in a situation of intractable conflict around territorial struggles which have correspondingly less intersubjective recognition. I conclude that a theory of decolonial recognition is of considerable utility in elucidating the dynamics of subaltern emancipatory struggles for territory.
@article{fraser_amazonian_2018,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Amazonian struggles for recognition},
volume = {43},
issn = {00202754},
url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/tran.12254},
doi = {10.1111/tran.12254},
abstract = {Since the 1988 Constitution, forest peoples of Brazilian Amazonia have been struggling for territorial recognition. Yet studies of recognition in post colonial contexts, based on cases with clear settler/indigenous distinctions, are highly critical of recognition, seeing it as a form of “neoliberal multiculturalism,” a co-option of subaltern identities with limited emancipatory potential. I question these critiques by examining struggles for legal and intersubjective recognition of subaltern identity categories “Indio” and “Agroextractivista” and corresponding territories of the “Terra Indigena” and “Reserva Extractivista” on the Madeira and Tapajos Rivers in Brazilian Amazonia, where heterogeneous origins of forest peoples belie simple settler/indigenous distinctions. I engage a key question, the relationships of subaltern peoples with state institutions, and highlight a finding, the relevance of the state’s “proximity,” often underestimated in the literature. I build a theory of decolonial recognition combining Axel Honneth’s idea of recognition as love, rights and solidarity with David Scott’s late-Foucauldian reworking of Frantz Fanon. Herein, the Fanonian colonised subjectivity is shaped by the negation of love, rights and solidarity, that is to say, misrecognition. The subject requires legal and intersubjective recognition in order to positively incorporate love, rights and solidarity into their “practices of techniques of the self.” On the Tapajos, territorial struggles are more successful owing to a stronger sphere of legal recognition – the presence of state institutions – and a history of Church and union grassroots organisation, both supporting greater intersubjective recognition among forest peoples. On the Madeira, a much weaker sphere of legal recognition has resulted in a situation of intractable conflict around territorial struggles which have correspondingly less intersubjective recognition. I conclude that a theory of decolonial recognition is of considerable utility in elucidating the dynamics of subaltern emancipatory struggles for territory.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
urldate = {2021-04-30},
journal = {Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers},
author = {FRASER, James},
year = {2018},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Brazil},
pages = {718--732},
file = {Fraser - 2018 - Amazonian struggles for recognition.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/YJV27UED/Fraser - 2018 - Amazonian struggles for recognition.pdf:application/pdf},
}Pacific Worlds: Indigeneity, hybridity, and globalization. HERMAN, R. D. K. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 4(2):15–24, 2018.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Created in 2000, the Pacific Worlds project works to portray Pacific Island communities through the words of community members themselves. The premise is that, despite climatic, linguistic, and material-culture similarities, each Pacific Island culture presents a complete and distinct worldview. And these worldviews developed in situ, through generations of interactions between the people and the environment. This kind of locally-developed human-environment knowledge is the cornerstone of what I call “indigeneity.” I contrast “indigeneity” with “modernity,” the mode of human-environment interaction based on industrial capitalism and characterized by commodification and exploitation of the environment. In this essay, I look at Indigeneity in three Pacific Island locations: Palau, Guam and the Hawaiian Islands, looking that the tensions between indigeneity and the modernity brought by waves of colonization from Europe, Asia and the United States.
@article{herman_pacific_2018,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Pacific {Worlds}: {Indigeneity}, hybridity, and globalization},
volume = {4},
issn = {23735058},
shorttitle = {Pacific {Worlds}},
url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/807211},
doi = {10.5749/vergstudglobasia.4.2.0014},
abstract = {Created in 2000, the Pacific Worlds project works to portray Pacific Island communities through the words of community members themselves. The premise is that, despite climatic, linguistic, and material-culture similarities, each Pacific Island culture presents a complete and distinct worldview. And these worldviews developed in situ, through generations of interactions between the people and the environment. This kind of locally-developed human-environment knowledge is the cornerstone of what I call “indigeneity.” I contrast “indigeneity” with “modernity,” the mode of human-environment interaction based on industrial capitalism and characterized by commodification and exploitation of the environment. In this essay, I look at Indigeneity in three Pacific Island locations: Palau, Guam and the Hawaiian Islands, looking that the tensions between indigeneity and the modernity brought by waves of colonization from Europe, Asia and the United States.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2023-08-22},
journal = {Verge: Studies in Global Asias},
author = {HERMAN, R. Douglas K.},
year = {2018},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: USA-Hawai'i, Country: USA-Guam, Country: Palau},
pages = {15--24},
file = {Rdk Herman - 2018 - Pacific Worlds Indigeneity, Hybridity, and Global.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/I7NMUVHR/Rdk Herman - 2018 - Pacific Worlds Indigeneity, Hybridity, and Global.pdf:application/pdf},
}Indigenous peoples’ relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts: towards multidisciplinary perspectives. HOROWITZ, L., KEELING, A., LEVESQUE, F., RODON, T., SCHOTT, S., & THERIAULT, S. The Extractive Industries and Society, 5(3):404–414, 2018.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Because of their close relationships to the land, water, and resources therein, and their marginalized social and economic positions, Indigenous peoples living in current or former settler colonies are particularly vulnerable to mining’s impacts, yet have the potential to benefit from its opportunities as well. This paper reviews the literature on large-scale mining projects’ relationships to Indigenous peoples in post/colonial contexts, focusing on Australia, Canada, Finland, Greenland, New Caledonia, Norway, and Sweden, in the aim of generating insights from comparative perspectives. First, we discuss differences in legal regimes governing Indigenous peoples’ rights and implications of those rights for negotiations over mining projects. Next, we examine, in turn, mining activities’ various impacts − environmental, economic, social − and how they specifically affect Indigenous communities. Finally, we explore ways that Indigenous communities living in a post/colonial context have addressed large-scale mining projects’ impacts by engaging with them, through both negotiation and resistance. We conclude by summarizing our findings on the relationships of Indigenous peoples to large-scale mining projects in the focus countries and identifying what gaps remain in the literature, and we provide thoughts as to how future research could address those gaps.
@article{horowitz_indigenous_2018,
series = {Transregional},
title = {Indigenous peoples’ relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts: towards multidisciplinary perspectives},
volume = {5},
issn = {2214790X},
shorttitle = {Indigenous peoples’ relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2214790X1830039X},
doi = {10.1016/j.exis.2018.05.004},
abstract = {Because of their close relationships to the land, water, and resources therein, and their marginalized social and economic positions, Indigenous peoples living in current or former settler colonies are particularly vulnerable to mining’s impacts, yet have the potential to benefit from its opportunities as well. This paper reviews the literature on large-scale mining projects’ relationships to Indigenous peoples in post/colonial contexts, focusing on Australia, Canada, Finland, Greenland, New Caledonia, Norway, and Sweden, in the aim of generating insights from comparative perspectives. First, we discuss differences in legal regimes governing Indigenous peoples’ rights and implications of those rights for negotiations over mining projects. Next, we examine, in turn, mining activities’ various impacts − environmental, economic, social − and how they specifically affect Indigenous communities. Finally, we explore ways that Indigenous communities living in a post/colonial context have addressed large-scale mining projects’ impacts by engaging with them, through both negotiation and resistance. We conclude by summarizing our findings on the relationships of Indigenous peoples to large-scale mining projects in the focus countries and identifying what gaps remain in the literature, and we provide thoughts as to how future research could address those gaps.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2023-07-28},
journal = {The Extractive Industries and Society},
author = {HOROWITZ, Leah and KEELING, Arn and LEVESQUE, Francis and RODON, Thierry and SCHOTT, Stephan and THERIAULT, Sophie},
year = {2018},
keywords = {Region: Transregional, Language: English, Country: Australia, Country: Norway, Country: Finland, Country: Canada, Country: Sweden, Country: Greenland, Country: France-New Caledonia, Topic: Mining},
pages = {404--414},
file = {Horowitz et al. - 2018 - Indigenous peoples’ relationships to large-scale m.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/G68XLGUZ/Horowitz et al. - 2018 - Indigenous peoples’ relationships to large-scale m.pdf:application/pdf},
}Substitution and continuity in Southern Chukotka traditional rituals: a case study from Meinypilgyno village, 2016-2017. KLOKOV, K. Arctic Anthropology, 55(2):117–133, 2018.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex The village of Meinypilgyno is located on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in southern Chukotka. In the past, some of its inhabitants were engaged in reindeer herding on the tundra, while others fished. However, 20 years ago, during the economic crisis that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, reindeer herding was lost. However, the Chukchi of Meinypilgyno did not stop performing their main reciprocity ritual. Instead, they substituted small reindeer models and dried salmon for live animals. The central theme of the ritual has remained unchanged over 100 years, despite radical changes to the social organization and economy of this region. The clever use of ritual substitutions allows the community to keep in touch with the spirit world in a new social and economic context. This paper describes this significant ritual and also makes comparisons to Chukchi communities to the south and north.
@article{klokov_substitution_2018,
series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {Substitution and continuity in {Southern} {Chukotka} traditional rituals: a case study from {Meinypilgyno} village, 2016-2017},
volume = {55},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.55.2.117},
doi = {10.3368/aa.55.2.117},
abstract = {The village of Meinypilgyno is located on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in southern Chukotka. In the past, some of its inhabitants were engaged in reindeer herding on the tundra, while others fished. However, 20 years ago, during the economic crisis that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, reindeer herding was lost. However, the Chukchi of Meinypilgyno did not stop performing their main reciprocity ritual. Instead, they substituted small reindeer models and dried salmon for live animals. The central theme of the ritual has remained unchanged over 100 years, despite radical changes to the social organization and economy of this region. The clever use of ritual substitutions allows the community to keep in touch with the spirit world in a new social and economic context. This paper describes this significant ritual and also makes comparisons to Chukchi communities to the south and north.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Arctic Anthropology},
author = {KLOKOV, Konstantin},
year = {2018},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: Russia},
pages = {117--133},
file = {KLOKOV - 2018 - Substitution and continuity in Southern Chukotka t.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/Z5D4C2LF/KLOKOV - 2018 - Substitution and continuity in Southern Chukotka t.pdf:application/pdf},
}2017 (6)
Costal lakes and lagoons as dynamic sites of exchange among the Tlingit of Alaska. THORNTON, T. Maritime Studies, 16(1):e4, 2017.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Among the maritime Tlingit of the Northwest Coast of North America, little lakes or lagoons are defined by several terms, the most common of which is áak'w. The Tlingit term is applied to both freshwater lakes and salt water lagoons, and is relational (lagoons are small as compared to large freshwater lakes or saltwater bays) and processual (involving seasonal changes, permeability and even long-term transformation vis-à-vis contiguous features, such as rivers, bays, and wetlands) in its portrayal of these dynamic coastal features. Lagoons are also conceptualized, and in some cases even engineered, as rich and liminal ecological edges and sites of exchange. Birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, insects, along with humans, exploit them intensively at particular stages of the seasonal round or life cycle, while at other times they are perceived as relatively dormant, even forbidding, landscapes. This paper examines the complex Tlingit perceptions of and interactions with lagoons and their implications for contemporary coastal management.
@article{thornton_costal_2017,
series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {Costal lakes and lagoons as dynamic sites of exchange among the {Tlingit} of {Alaska}},
volume = {16},
issn = {2212-9790},
url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1186/s40152-017-0059-3},
doi = {10.1186/s40152-017-0059-3},
abstract = {Among the maritime Tlingit of the Northwest Coast of North America, little lakes or lagoons are defined by several terms, the most common of which is áak'w. The Tlingit term is applied to both freshwater lakes and salt water lagoons, and is relational (lagoons are small as compared to large freshwater lakes or saltwater bays) and processual (involving seasonal changes, permeability and even long-term transformation vis-à-vis contiguous features, such as rivers, bays, and wetlands) in its portrayal of these dynamic coastal features. Lagoons are also conceptualized, and in some cases even engineered, as rich and liminal ecological edges and sites of exchange. Birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, insects, along with humans, exploit them intensively at particular stages of the seasonal round or life cycle, while at other times they are perceived as relatively dormant, even forbidding, landscapes. This paper examines the complex Tlingit perceptions of and interactions with lagoons and their implications for contemporary coastal management.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
urldate = {2023-08-22},
journal = {Maritime Studies},
author = {THORNTON, Thomas},
year = {2017},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: USA-Alaska},
pages = {e4},
file = {Thornton - 2017 - Coastal lakes and lagoons as dynamic sites of exch.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/ZM34QY49/Thornton - 2017 - Coastal lakes and lagoons as dynamic sites of exch.pdf:application/pdf},
}From transients to residents: urban Indigeneity in Israel and Australia. BLATMAN-THOMAS, N. Journal of Historical Geography, 58:1–11, 2017.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex A vast body of research has characterised urban Indigeneity as a novel phenomenon. In response, this paper historicises the presence of Indigenous people in settler-colonial cities. I argue that although Indigenous people have always been a part of the urban landscape, their presence has remained largely unheeded due to their positioning as transients. Insufficient critical engagement with Indigenous urban histories has obfuscated a shift in their status from transients to residents in cities. As transients, Indigenous groups were denied access to decision making and their presence was confined and conditional. Positioned as residents, Indigenous peoples now constitute subaltern counterpublics who partake in political processes. Adopting a comparative approach, I use archival and ethnographic material to explore narratives of policy makers, bureaucrats and urban planners in two settler-colonial cities: Karmiel in Israel/Palestine and Townsville in northern Queensland, Australia. In each location I examine the top-down (settler) positioning of Indigenous people within the city space and the contemporary manifestations of Indigenous political mobilisation. Findings show that while settler-colonial urbanism was initially predicated upon the exclusion of Indigenous people, it necessitated their provisional and restrictive inclusion. This structure inadvertently led to the emergence of Indigenous counterpublics in the city.
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series = {Transregional},
title = {From transients to residents: urban {Indigeneity} in {Israel} and {Australia}},
volume = {58},
issn = {03057488},
shorttitle = {From transients to residents},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0305748817301573},
doi = {10.1016/j.jhg.2017.07.006},
abstract = {A vast body of research has characterised urban Indigeneity as a novel phenomenon. In response, this paper historicises the presence of Indigenous people in settler-colonial cities. I argue that although Indigenous people have always been a part of the urban landscape, their presence has remained largely unheeded due to their positioning as transients. Insufficient critical engagement with Indigenous urban histories has obfuscated a shift in their status from transients to residents in cities. As transients, Indigenous groups were denied access to decision making and their presence was confined and conditional. Positioned as residents, Indigenous peoples now constitute subaltern counterpublics who partake in political processes. Adopting a comparative approach, I use archival and ethnographic material to explore narratives of policy makers, bureaucrats and urban planners in two settler-colonial cities: Karmiel in Israel/Palestine and Townsville in northern Queensland, Australia. In each location I examine the top-down (settler) positioning of Indigenous people within the city space and the contemporary manifestations of Indigenous political mobilisation. Findings show that while settler-colonial urbanism was initially predicated upon the exclusion of Indigenous people, it necessitated their provisional and restrictive inclusion. This structure inadvertently led to the emergence of Indigenous counterpublics in the city.},
language = {en},
urldate = {2024-03-24},
journal = {Journal of Historical Geography},
author = {BLATMAN-THOMAS, Naama},
year = {2017},
keywords = {Region: Transregional, Language: English, Country: Australia, Country: Israel},
pages = {1--11},
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}Dancing bodies and Indigenous ontology: what does the haka reveal about the Māori relationship with the Earth?. CLEMENT, V. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(2):317–328, 2017.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This essay seeks to explore the extent to which the haka can be seen as an unparalleled source for approaching M"aori understandings of the world and their relationship with the Earth. Taking into account the growing interest in the ontological turn and post-humanist phenomenologies, the main focus of this paper is to examine how the haka could be a way of demonstrating M"aori ontology. One of the merits of the ontological turn has been to destabilise colonial forms of thinking. After discussing the need for decolonising research related to Indigenous issues, the haka is regarded as a discourse of the earthly human experience in which the meaning of places for M"aori plays an important part in the construction of the message. Later, the narrative of the body is re- contextualised in terms of its spatiality. Three interlocked spatial scales of analysis reveal different aspects of the ontological significance of the haka. Beyond its first aim of intimidating enemies, the haka is addressed as a performative experience of the relationship between M"aori and the natural environment. Non-human and inanimate things in the surrounding environment are regarded as relatives by M"aori, and as with songs and stories, the dance renews the strong bonds of kinship that exist between M"aori and the natural world.
@article{clement_dancing_2017,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Dancing bodies and {Indigenous} ontology: what does the haka reveal about the {Māori} relationship with the {Earth}?},
volume = {42},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12157},
doi = {10.1111/tran.12157},
abstract = {This essay seeks to explore the extent to which the haka can be seen as an unparalleled source for approaching M"aori understandings of the world and their relationship with the Earth. Taking into account the growing interest in the ontological turn and post-humanist phenomenologies, the main focus of this paper is to examine how the haka could be a way of demonstrating M"aori ontology. One of the merits of the ontological turn has been to destabilise colonial forms of thinking. After discussing the need for decolonising research related to Indigenous issues, the haka is regarded as a discourse of the earthly human experience in which the meaning of places for M"aori plays an important part in the construction of the message. Later, the narrative of the body is re- contextualised in terms of its spatiality. Three interlocked spatial scales of analysis reveal different aspects of the ontological significance of the haka. Beyond its first aim of intimidating enemies, the haka is addressed as a performative experience of the relationship between M"aori and the natural environment. Non-human and inanimate things in the surrounding environment are regarded as relatives by M"aori, and as with songs and stories, the dance renews the strong bonds of kinship that exist between M"aori and the natural world.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers},
author = {CLEMENT, Vincent},
year = {2017},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: New Zealand},
pages = {317--328},
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}School (non-)attendance and ‘mobile cultures’: theoretical and empirical insights from Indigenous Australia. PROUT QUICKE, S. & BIDDLE, N. Race Ethnicity and Education, 20(1):57–71, 2017.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians are significantly and substantially less likely to be attending school on a given day than their non-Indigenous counterparts. This has been shown to have long-term consequences for the development of the mainstream literacy and numeracy skills associated with formal schooling, as well as later school and employment outcomes. Reducing this gap is a key focus of government education policy within Australia. Hampering the design of effective policy, however, is the lack of a robust empirical and theoretical framework to explain school (non-)attendance that not only builds on existing research, but also reflects the specific circumstances and aspirations of Indigenous students and their families. This article applies mixed-methods quantitative and qualitative techniques to explore what Indigenous student (non-)attendance in Australia might tell us regarding the relationship between highly marginalised student groups and formal education systems. A robust understanding of these geographically and socio-culturally situated school (non-)attendance patterns and processes allows us to build on and contribute to human capital, critical, resistance, and other behavioural theories of formal education and draw parallels for other population sub-groups globally, especially those that display ongoing patterns of high geographic mobility. Our analysis suggests that absenteeism amongst marginalised and/or highly mobile populations, may be most usefully conceived of as a manifestation of structural incompatibilities between formal schooling systems and the life projects and circumstances of these school-aged children and their families.
@article{prout_quicke_school_2017,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {School (non-)attendance and ‘mobile cultures’: theoretical and empirical insights from {Indigenous} {Australia}},
volume = {20},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2016.1150831},
doi = {10.1080/13613324.2016.1150831},
abstract = {Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians are significantly and substantially less likely to be attending school on a given day than their non-Indigenous counterparts. This has been shown to have long-term consequences for the development of the mainstream literacy and numeracy skills associated with formal schooling, as well as later school and employment outcomes. Reducing this gap is a key focus of government education policy within Australia. Hampering the design of effective policy, however, is the lack of a robust empirical and theoretical framework to explain school (non-)attendance that not only builds on existing research, but also reflects the specific circumstances and aspirations of Indigenous students and their families. This article applies mixed-methods quantitative and qualitative techniques to explore what Indigenous student (non-)attendance in Australia might tell us regarding the relationship between highly marginalised student groups and formal education systems. A robust understanding of these geographically and socio-culturally situated school (non-)attendance patterns and processes allows us to build on and contribute to human capital, critical, resistance, and other behavioural theories of formal education and draw parallels for other population sub-groups globally, especially those that display ongoing patterns of high geographic mobility. Our analysis suggests that absenteeism amongst marginalised and/or highly mobile populations, may be most usefully conceived of as a manifestation of structural incompatibilities between formal schooling systems and the life projects and circumstances of these school-aged children and their families.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
journal = {Race Ethnicity and Education},
author = {PROUT QUICKE, Sarah and BIDDLE, Nicolas},
year = {2017},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {57--71},
file = {PROUT QUICKE et BIDDLE - 2017 - School (non-)attendance and ‘mobile cultures’ the.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/XMMVAJN2/PROUT QUICKE et BIDDLE - 2017 - School (non-)attendance and ‘mobile cultures’ the.pdf:application/pdf},
}Implementing the tri-council policy on ethical research involving Indigenous peoples in Canada: So, how’s at going in Mi’kma’ki?. MOORE, C., CASTLEDEN, H., TIRONE, S., & MARTIN, D. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 8(2):e4, 2017.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex The 2010 edition of the Tri-Council Policy Statement on Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans introduced a new chapter, titled "Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada." The goal of our study was to explore how this chapter is being implemented in research involving Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia. Qualitative data from four groups—health researchers, research ethics board representatives, financial services administrators, and Mi’kmaw community health directors—revealed that while the chapter is useful in navigating this ethical space, there is room for improvement. The challenges they encountered were not insurmountable; with political will from the academy and with guidance from Indigenous community health and research leaders solutions to these barriers can be achieved.
@article{moore_implementing_2017,
series = {North {America}},
title = {Implementing the tri-council policy on ethical research involving {Indigenous} peoples in {Canada}: {So}, how’s at going in {Mi}’kma’ki?},
volume = {8},
issn = {1916-5781},
shorttitle = {Implementing the {Tri}-{Council} {Policy} on {Ethical} {Research} {Involving} {Indigenous} {Peoples} in {Canada}},
url = {https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/7514},
doi = {10.18584/iipj.2017.8.2.4},
abstract = {The 2010 edition of the Tri-Council Policy Statement on Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans introduced a new chapter, titled "Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada." The goal of our study was to explore how this chapter is being implemented in research involving Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia. Qualitative data from four groups—health researchers, research ethics board representatives, financial services administrators, and Mi’kmaw community health directors—revealed that while the chapter is useful in navigating this ethical space, there is room for improvement. The challenges they encountered were not insurmountable; with political will from the academy and with guidance from Indigenous community health and research leaders solutions to these barriers can be achieved.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2023-08-22},
journal = {The International Indigenous Policy Journal},
author = {MOORE, Carla and CASTLEDEN, Heather and TIRONE, Susan and MARTIN, Debbie},
year = {2017},
keywords = {Region: North America, Language: English, Country: Canada},
pages = {e4},
file = {Moore et al. - 2017 - Implementing the Tri-Council Policy on Ethical Res.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/E9VKMQ94/Moore et al. - 2017 - Implementing the Tri-Council Policy on Ethical Res.pdf:application/pdf},
}Investment’s rituals: ‘Grassroots’ extractivism and the making of an indigenous gold mine in the Peruvian Andes. HIRSCH, E. Geoforum, 82:259–267, 2017.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex What happens when an Andean family finds gold on its land? As mining corporations rapidly claim surrounding properties on rugged terrain near Mount Mismi, a water-supplying deity overlooking Peru’s Colca Valley, the Flores family is springing into action to beat the Buenaventura mining company to the gold that might be hidden within. The global land rush has been pronounced in Peru, whose mineral resources have largely been responsible for rapid economic growth but whose profits remain restricted to a relative few. The Flores family, many of its members underemployed, are engaged in a costly race against time to constitute themselves as an enterprise, rent equipment, formalize their title, and fulfill other rituals necessary for legitimating their own effort to access what they see as their small share of Peru’s mineral wealth, against the specter of state subsoil rights and corporate power. They are simultaneously racing to seek the land’s permission, via rituals like the pago a la tierra (offering to the earth) and the provision of spiritually infused chicha (fermented maize and barley). Through an ethnographic focus on the exemplary case of the Flores property and the diverse rituals essential to extracting its prosperity, this article asks how the Peruvian state’s categories of legitimate land use articulate with a perspective acknowledging land as a powerful non-human agent with its own requirements for becoming investable. I argue that beyond a simple dichotomy between official and indigenous rituals of legitimation, the Flores’ urgent race to render land investable puts multivalent ontologies and ethics to work together. In doing so, I further argue, family members draw on years of engagement with development projects and non-governmental organizations focused on promoting explicitly indigenous entrepreneurship. They are thus forging new interpretations of identity-based empowerment that complicate any stereotypical relationship between environmental sustainability and indigeneity.
@article{hirsch_investments_2017,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Investment’s rituals: ‘{Grassroots}’ extractivism and the making of an indigenous gold mine in the {Peruvian} {Andes}},
volume = {82},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718516300835},
doi = {10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.08.012},
abstract = {What happens when an Andean family finds gold on its land? As mining corporations rapidly claim surrounding properties on rugged terrain near Mount Mismi, a water-supplying deity overlooking Peru’s Colca Valley, the Flores family is springing into action to beat the Buenaventura mining company to the gold that might be hidden within. The global land rush has been pronounced in Peru, whose mineral resources have largely been responsible for rapid economic growth but whose profits remain restricted to a relative few. The Flores family, many of its members underemployed, are engaged in a costly race against time to constitute themselves as an enterprise, rent equipment, formalize their title, and fulfill other rituals necessary for legitimating their own effort to access what they see as their small share of Peru’s mineral wealth, against the specter of state subsoil rights and corporate power. They are simultaneously racing to seek the land’s permission, via rituals like the pago a la tierra (offering to the earth) and the provision of spiritually infused chicha (fermented maize and barley). Through an ethnographic focus on the exemplary case of the Flores property and the diverse rituals essential to extracting its prosperity, this article asks how the Peruvian state’s categories of legitimate land use articulate with a perspective acknowledging land as a powerful non-human agent with its own requirements for becoming investable. I argue that beyond a simple dichotomy between official and indigenous rituals of legitimation, the Flores’ urgent race to render land investable puts multivalent ontologies and ethics to work together. In doing so, I further argue, family members draw on years of engagement with development projects and non-governmental organizations focused on promoting explicitly indigenous entrepreneurship. They are thus forging new interpretations of identity-based empowerment that complicate any stereotypical relationship between environmental sustainability and indigeneity.},
language = {en},
journal = {Geoforum},
author = {HIRSCH, Eric},
year = {2017},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Peru, Topic: Mining},
pages = {259--267},
file = {HIRSCH - 2017 - Investment’s rituals ‘Grassroots’ extractivism an.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/EZF6P8ZS/HIRSCH - 2017 - Investment’s rituals ‘Grassroots’ extractivism an.pdf:application/pdf},
}2016 (1)
Soy expansion and the absent state: Indigenous and peasant livelihood options in eastern Paraguay. CARDOZO, M., SALAS, D., FERREIRA, I., MERELES, T., & RODRIGUEZ, L. Journal of Latin American Geography, 15(3):87–104, 2016.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Soy cropping expansion in Paraguay has displaced a considerable number of smallholders from their communities. Based on discussion groups held at peasant and indigenous communities, this article surveys smallholder attitudes towards soy expansion near a nature reserve in eastern Paraguay. Smallholders identify agrochemical pollution and a development model that seeks to eradicate smallholding through the mechanization of the rural landscape as principal problems. In contrast, several campesino (peasant) and indigenous communities have found ways to profit from the industry: some have legally integrated soy into their agricultural practices while others illegally lease their lands to soy patrons. Through interviews, smallholders revealed the relationships between their livelihoods, big soy, and the marijuana trade, giving the sense that engaging in illegal forms of agriculture may help some smallholders resist displacement caused by shifting economies of scale. While these accounts challenge simplistic big-soy/smallholder binaries, they also underscore the deficiencies of weak governance linked to neoliberal economies in developing regions. The article concludes with recommendations on strategies to ameliorate conflicts and engage in sustainable development based on the strengthening of local institutions.
@article{cardozo_soy_2016,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Soy expansion and the absent state: {Indigenous} and peasant livelihood options in eastern {Paraguay}},
volume = {15},
url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639101/figure/fig01},
doi = {10.1353/lag.2016.0032},
abstract = {Soy cropping expansion in Paraguay has displaced a considerable number of smallholders from their communities. Based on discussion groups held at peasant and indigenous communities, this article surveys smallholder attitudes towards soy expansion near a nature reserve in eastern Paraguay. Smallholders identify agrochemical pollution and a development model that seeks to eradicate smallholding through the mechanization of the rural landscape as principal problems. In contrast, several campesino (peasant) and indigenous communities have found ways to profit from the industry: some have legally integrated soy into their agricultural practices while others illegally lease their lands to soy patrons. Through interviews, smallholders revealed the relationships between their livelihoods, big soy, and the marijuana trade, giving the sense that engaging in illegal forms of agriculture may help some smallholders resist displacement caused by shifting economies of scale. While these accounts challenge simplistic big-soy/smallholder binaries, they also underscore the deficiencies of weak governance linked to neoliberal economies in developing regions. The article concludes with recommendations on strategies to ameliorate conflicts and engage in sustainable development based on the strengthening of local institutions.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
journal = {Journal of Latin American Geography},
author = {CARDOZO, Mario and SALAS, Danilo and FERREIRA, Isabel and MERELES, Teresa and RODRIGUEZ, Laura},
year = {2016},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Paraguay},
pages = {87--104},
file = {CARDOZO et al. - 2016 - Soy expansion and the absent state Indigenous and.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/32V9Q8WK/CARDOZO et al. - 2016 - Soy expansion and the absent state Indigenous and.pdf:application/pdf},
}2015 (1)
Applying the system viability framework for cross-scalar governance of nested social-ecological systems in the Guiana Shield, South America. BERARDI, A., MISTRY, J., TSCHIRHART, C., BIGNANTE, E., DAVIS, O., HAYNES, L., BENJAMIN, R., ALBERT, G., XAVIER, R., JAFFERALLY, D., & DE VILLE, G. Ecology and Society, 20(3):e42, 2015.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Linking and analyzing governance of natural resources at different scales requires the development of a conceptual framework for analyzing social-ecological systems that can be easily applied by a range of stakeholders whose interests lie at different scales, but where the results of the analysis can be compared in a straightforward way. We outline the system viability framework, which allows participants to characterize a range of strategies in response to environment challenges for maintaining the long-term survival of their particular system of interest. Working in the Guiana Shield, South America, and with a range of local, regional, and international stakeholders, our aim was to use system viability to (1) investigate synergies and conflicts between distinct scales of governance, (2) identify scale-related challenges, and (3) test the framework as a conceptual tool for supporting cross-scalar analysis for environmental governance. At the international and national levels, a number of civil society organizations explored system viability indicators that would measure the successful implementation of governance mechanisms relevant to sustainable development and natural resource management. At the local level, we used participatory video and photography within two indigenous territories to enable local participants to identify indicators of viability within community governance systems. A grounded theory approach was then used to identify common themes across the different scales of analysis. Five key themes emerged: land rights, leadership, partnerships, lifestyle, and identity. We found that although most categories of interest were theoretically aligned across scales, all perceived systems of interest were struggling to face up to various cross-scalar challenges undermining different system viability responses. In conclusion, we highlight how the system viability framework can be used with a disparate variety of stakeholders as a practical, participative and “big-picture” approach for facilitating the integrated governance of nested local and regional social-ecological systems.
@article{berardi_applying_2015,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Applying the system viability framework for cross-scalar governance of nested social-ecological systems in the {Guiana} {Shield}, {South} {America}},
volume = {20},
url = {https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol20/iss3/art42/},
doi = {10.5751/ES-07865-200342},
abstract = {Linking and analyzing governance of natural resources at different scales requires the development of a conceptual framework for analyzing social-ecological systems that can be easily applied by a range of stakeholders whose interests lie at different scales, but where the results of the analysis can be compared in a straightforward way. We outline the system viability framework, which allows participants to characterize a range of strategies in response to environment challenges for maintaining the long-term survival of their particular system of interest. Working in the Guiana Shield, South America, and with a range of local, regional, and international stakeholders, our aim was to use system viability to (1) investigate synergies and conflicts between distinct scales of governance, (2) identify scale-related challenges, and (3) test the framework as a conceptual tool for supporting cross-scalar analysis for environmental governance. At the international and national levels, a number of civil society organizations explored system viability indicators that would measure the successful implementation of governance mechanisms relevant to sustainable development and natural resource management. At the local level, we used participatory video and photography within two indigenous territories to enable local participants to identify indicators of viability within community governance systems. A grounded theory approach was then used to identify common themes across the different scales of analysis. Five key themes emerged: land rights, leadership, partnerships, lifestyle, and identity. We found that although most categories of interest were theoretically aligned across scales, all perceived systems of interest were struggling to face up to various cross-scalar challenges undermining different system viability responses. In conclusion, we highlight how the system viability framework can be used with a disparate variety of stakeholders as a practical, participative and “big-picture” approach for facilitating the integrated governance of nested local and regional social-ecological systems.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
journal = {Ecology and Society},
author = {BERARDI, Andrea and MISTRY, Jayalaxshmi and TSCHIRHART, Céline and BIGNANTE, Elisa and DAVIS, Odacy and HAYNES, Lakeram and BENJAMIN, Ryan and ALBERT, Grace and XAVIER, Rebecca and JAFFERALLY, Deirdre and DE VILLE, Géraud},
year = {2015},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Brazil, Country: Guyana},
pages = {e42},
file = {BERARDI et al. - 2015 - Applying the system viability framework for cross-.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/H7KQKIIW/BERARDI et al. - 2015 - Applying the system viability framework for cross-.pdf:application/pdf},
}2014 (2)
Ocotillo wind: a case study of how tribal-federal governmental consultation is failing tribal Governments and their spiritual landscapes through renewable energy development. BATHKE, J. Human Geography, 7(2):46–59, 2014.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex In an effort to mitigate climate change, the federal government of the United States has recently opened public lands to the development of utility-scale renewable energy projects. The federal government is processing the applications for these projects arbitrarily fast, particularly in southern California and western Arizona. Pursuant to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), federal projects trigger government-to-government consultations between the federal government and Tribal governments. The Quechan Indian Nation, whose traditional lands encompass many of these projects, has been forced to defend its cultural resources from destruction by these projects. However, because the federal government has treated these applications in a “fast-track” manner, the tribal consultation process has become extremely rushed, thus not allowing Tribal governments enough time and/or resources to adequately protect their sacred sites on public lands from development. In particular, the Ocotillo Wind Express Facility, within a spiritual landscape important to the Quechan and other Indian Nations, highlights how Tribal governments may not be able to rely on Section 106 tribal consultation and the nomination of landscapes as Traditional Cultural Properties (TCP) to protect their spiritual heritage embedded in public land. The current tools of Section 106 consultation and TCP nomination have proven useless to preserve a cultural landscape, spiritually important to Quechan, from being devastated by a 112-turbine wind project. This article examines how the underlying nature of tribal consultation does not offer Tribal governments any reliable method of protecting their cultural resources on public lands. The federal government diminishes any benefit of tribal consulting when it arbitrarily accelerates the environmental review process on many current renewable energy projects.
@article{bathke_ocotillo_2014,
series = {North {America}},
title = {Ocotillo wind: a case study of how tribal-federal governmental consultation is failing tribal {Governments} and their spiritual landscapes through renewable energy development},
volume = {7},
issn = {1942-7786, 2633-674X},
shorttitle = {Ocotillo {Wind}},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/194277861400700204},
doi = {10.1177/194277861400700204},
abstract = {In an effort to mitigate climate change, the federal government of the United States has recently opened public lands to the development of utility-scale renewable energy projects. The federal government is processing the applications for these projects arbitrarily fast, particularly in southern California and western Arizona. Pursuant to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), federal projects trigger government-to-government consultations between the federal government and Tribal governments. The Quechan Indian Nation, whose traditional lands encompass many of these projects, has been forced to defend its cultural resources from destruction by these projects. However, because the federal government has treated these applications in a “fast-track” manner, the tribal consultation process has become extremely rushed, thus not allowing Tribal governments enough time and/or resources to adequately protect their sacred sites on public lands from development. In particular, the Ocotillo Wind Express Facility, within a spiritual landscape important to the Quechan and other Indian Nations, highlights how Tribal governments may not be able to rely on Section 106 tribal consultation and the nomination of landscapes as Traditional Cultural Properties (TCP) to protect their spiritual heritage embedded in public land. The current tools of Section 106 consultation and TCP nomination have proven useless to preserve a cultural landscape, spiritually important to Quechan, from being devastated by a 112-turbine wind project. This article examines how the underlying nature of tribal consultation does not offer Tribal governments any reliable method of protecting their cultural resources on public lands. The federal government diminishes any benefit of tribal consulting when it arbitrarily accelerates the environmental review process on many current renewable energy projects.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2021-07-07},
journal = {Human Geography},
author = {BATHKE, John},
year = {2014},
keywords = {Region: North America, Language: English, Country: USA},
pages = {46--59},
file = {BATHKE - 2014 - Ocotillo wind a case study of how tribal-federal .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/BK876PRS/BATHKE - 2014 - Ocotillo wind a case study of how tribal-federal .pdf:application/pdf},
}Transgressions of the man on the moon: climate change, indigenous expertise, and the posthumanist ethics
of place and space. WATSON, A. & HUNTINGTON, O. GeoJournal, 79(6):721–736, 2014.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Indigenous peoples have been enrolled in climate change research for decades, participating in data-gathering, as writing collaborators, and serving as the symbolic ‘‘canary in the coal mine’’ for public outreach and policy-making. They have indeed experienced some of the most rapid environmental changes, but rather than emphasize their vulnerabilities, we argue their expertise is narrowly understood in formulating knowledge; the research on climate change has a limited understanding of what it might mean to be inter- or trans-disciplinary because research is formulated exclusively through the assumptions of Enlightenment thought, without sufficiently engaging non-Western subjectivities. Qualitative social sciences and ‘‘Indigenous methodologies’’ can be used to better achieve trans-disciplinarity; in this article we re-tell a story told by Native elders from tribes across Alaska about the ‘‘man on the moon.’’ While literally referring to the US moon landing, elders invoke this story when addressing climate change: it teaches the ethics of the human-nature relationship, developed from a ‘‘more-than-human’’ (or ‘‘posthuman’’) philosophy. Our data comes from participant-observation and oral history; we draw upon poststructuralist theory, and frame our analysis through the literatures of critical geography, science studies, and American Indian studies. To ensure that Indigenous peoples are not used as props in Western policy agendas, researchers must engage with non-Enlightenment intellectual traditions. More than being a source of data or a symbol of humanity’s ruin, Indigenous wisdom can productively inform sustainable policy agendas to adapt to climate change. What can be learned, for example, is a more-than-human ethics of place and space.
@article{watson_transgressions_2014,
series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {Transgressions of the man on the moon: climate change, indigenous expertise, and the posthumanist ethics
of place and space},
volume = {79},
issn = {0343-2521, 1572-9893},
shorttitle = {Transgressions of the man on the moon},
url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10708-014-9547-9},
doi = {10.1007/s10708-014-9547-9},
abstract = {Indigenous peoples have been enrolled in climate change research for decades, participating in data-gathering, as writing collaborators, and serving as the symbolic ‘‘canary in the coal mine’’ for public outreach and policy-making. They have indeed experienced some of the most rapid environmental changes, but rather than emphasize their vulnerabilities, we argue their expertise is narrowly understood in formulating knowledge; the research on climate change has a limited understanding of what it might mean to be inter- or trans-disciplinary because research is formulated exclusively through the assumptions of Enlightenment thought, without sufficiently engaging non-Western subjectivities. Qualitative social sciences and ‘‘Indigenous methodologies’’ can be used to better achieve trans-disciplinarity; in this article we re-tell a story told by Native elders from tribes across Alaska about the ‘‘man on the moon.’’ While literally referring to the US moon landing, elders invoke this story when addressing climate change: it teaches the ethics of the human-nature relationship, developed from a ‘‘more-than-human’’ (or ‘‘posthuman’’) philosophy. Our data comes from participant-observation and oral history; we draw upon poststructuralist theory, and frame our analysis through the literatures of critical geography, science studies, and American Indian studies. To ensure that Indigenous peoples are not used as props in Western policy agendas, researchers must engage with non-Enlightenment intellectual traditions. More than being a source of data or a symbol of humanity’s ruin, Indigenous wisdom can productively inform sustainable policy agendas to adapt to climate change. What can be learned, for example, is a more-than-human ethics of place and space.},
language = {en},
number = {6},
urldate = {2023-12-02},
journal = {GeoJournal},
author = {WATSON, Annette and HUNTINGTON, Orville},
year = {2014},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: USA-Alaska},
pages = {721--736},
file = {Watson et Huntington - 2014 - Transgressions of the man on the moon climate cha.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/XFFE2YHQ/Watson et Huntington - 2014 - Transgressions of the man on the moon climate cha.pdf:application/pdf},
}2013 (4)
Collaborative approaches to governance for water and indigenous peoples: a case study from British Columbia, Canada. VON DER PORTEN, S. & DE LOE, R. Geoforum, 50:149–160, 2013.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Indigenous peoples around the world hold views about identity, self-determination and nationhood that often are distinct from those of governments and others involved in environmental governance. Conflicts and tensions often result when these incompatible perspectives clash. This problem is evident in the context of collaborative approaches to environmental problem solving, which often are grounded in the assumption that Indigenous peoples simply are one of many stakeholders; this perspective is fundamentally incompatible with the concept of Indigenous peoples as existing within self-determining nations. Using an empirical case of collaborative governance for water in the province of British Columbia, Canada, this paper explores the extent to which collaborative practices reflect Indigenous concerns and perspectives. In the cases examined, collaborative practices tended not to recognize or account for concepts related to Indigenous self-determination and nationhood in ways that were accepted by affected First Nations people. We conclude with suggestions for ways in which the gap between collaborative practice and Indigenous perspectives can be addressed.
@article{von_der_porten_collaborative_2013,
series = {North {America}},
title = {Collaborative approaches to governance for water and indigenous peoples: a case study from {British} {Columbia}, {Canada}},
volume = {50},
issn = {00167185},
shorttitle = {Collaborative approaches to governance for water and {Indigenous} peoples},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016718513001838},
doi = {10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.09.001},
abstract = {Indigenous peoples around the world hold views about identity, self-determination and nationhood that often are distinct from those of governments and others involved in environmental governance. Conflicts and tensions often result when these incompatible perspectives clash. This problem is evident in the context of collaborative approaches to environmental problem solving, which often are grounded in the assumption that Indigenous peoples simply are one of many stakeholders; this perspective is fundamentally incompatible with the concept of Indigenous peoples as existing within self-determining nations. Using an empirical case of collaborative governance for water in the province of British Columbia, Canada, this paper explores the extent to which collaborative practices reflect Indigenous concerns and perspectives. In the cases examined, collaborative practices tended not to recognize or account for concepts related to Indigenous self-determination and nationhood in ways that were accepted by affected First Nations people. We conclude with suggestions for ways in which the gap between collaborative practice and Indigenous perspectives can be addressed.},
language = {en},
urldate = {2024-03-10},
journal = {Geoforum},
author = {VON DER PORTEN, Suzanne and DE LOE, Robert},
year = {2013},
keywords = {Region: North America, Language: English, Country: Canada},
pages = {149--160},
file = {Von Der Porten et De Loë - 2013 - Collaborative approaches to governance for water a.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/5BR89F9Z/Von Der Porten et De Loë - 2013 - Collaborative approaches to governance for water a.pdf:application/pdf},
}GIS, internal colonialism, and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. PALMER, M. & RUNDSTROM, R. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103(5):1142–1159, 2013.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This article contains the first comprehensive empirical account of the history of geographic information systems (GIS) development within the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), an account founded in part on a previously unused source of archival data. It also demonstrates the importance of linking a standard technical and institutional history of GIS with a topic neglected in most such histories, the history of the resource application crucial to GIS deployment. The main finding is that across four decades of effort, the BIA’s pursuit of GIS is better understood as an effort to perpetuate its internal colonial agenda and its own bureaucratic existence during an era of rapid technological upheaval rather than as a trustee’s effort to better manage resources for the greater good of American Indians. The BIA’s quest involves various time-honored colonial practices: creating new forms of dependence, imposing complex bureaucratic procedures, misusing funds, distributing free commodities, developing obligatory points of control, and outsourcing both management and labor to a private sector with long experience exploiting Indian resource economies. We conclude that rather than revolutionizing institutions and setting them on new trajectories toward self-improvement as some have suggested, GIS development is often merely a part of a broader and historically consistent pattern of policymaking and behavior.
@article{palmer_gis_2013,
series = {North {America}},
title = {{GIS}, internal colonialism, and the {U}.{S}. {Bureau} of {Indian} {Affairs}},
volume = {103},
issn = {0004-5608, 1467-8306},
url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045608.2012.720233},
doi = {10.1080/00045608.2012.720233},
abstract = {This article contains the first comprehensive empirical account of the history of geographic information systems (GIS) development within the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), an account founded in part on a previously unused source of archival data. It also demonstrates the importance of linking a standard technical and institutional history of GIS with a topic neglected in most such histories, the history of the resource application crucial to GIS deployment. The main finding is that across four decades of effort, the BIA’s pursuit of GIS is better understood as an effort to perpetuate its internal colonial agenda and its own bureaucratic existence during an era of rapid technological upheaval rather than as a trustee’s effort to better manage resources for the greater good of American Indians. The BIA’s quest involves various time-honored colonial practices: creating new forms of dependence, imposing complex bureaucratic procedures, misusing funds, distributing free commodities, developing obligatory points of control, and outsourcing both management and labor to a private sector with long experience exploiting Indian resource economies. We conclude that rather than revolutionizing institutions and setting them on new trajectories toward self-improvement as some have suggested, GIS development is often merely a part of a broader and historically consistent pattern of policymaking and behavior.},
language = {en},
number = {5},
urldate = {2023-11-22},
journal = {Annals of the Association of American Geographers},
author = {PALMER, Mark and RUNDSTROM, Robert},
year = {2013},
keywords = {Region: North America, Language: English, Country: USA},
pages = {1142--1159},
file = {Palmer et Rundstrom - 2013 - GIS, Internal Colonialism, and the U.S. Bureau of .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/ULD55JSP/Palmer et Rundstrom - 2013 - GIS, Internal Colonialism, and the U.S. Bureau of .pdf:application/pdf},
}The governance of nature as development and the erasure of the Pygmies of Cameroon. PEMUNTA, N. GeoJournal, 78(2):353–371, 2013.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex The Pygmies are among the remaining ‘savages’ in West and Central Africa. This paper demonstrates how the governance of nature through sedentarization, the creation of national parks as a mechanism of forestry conservation and the failure to endorse standard environmental safeguards in the creation of the Tchad-Cameroon pipeline project have led to the devastation of the livelihood of the indigenous pygmies. Simultaneously, by categorizing the Pygmies as a ‘primitive other’ despite the very dynamism of the concept of culture, the state of Cameroon has excluded them from the benefits of postmodernist development. I demonstrate that projects aimed at modernizing them, and achieving sustainability have instead accentuated their exclusion because of their presumed cultural isolation, led to their deep entrenchment in poverty and resulted in complete erasure. The failure of these projects is due to the clash between global and local perspectives and interests over the Western protectionism and nature aesthetics that underpin conservation and development schemes, and the government’s failure to ensure that developers fulfill their obligations to affected communities, as well as the non-recognition of the multiplex relationships between hunter-gatherers and farmers that is based on cultural, historical and political ecology. Against this backdrop, development has thus, become a process of erasure in which the livelihood of the Pygmies has been balkanized and their cultural existence and identity, negated.
@article{pemunta_governance_2013,
series = {Africa / {Middle} {East}},
title = {The governance of nature as development and the erasure of the {Pygmies} of {Cameroon}},
volume = {78},
issn = {0343-2521, 1572-9893},
url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10708-011-9441-7},
doi = {10.1007/s10708-011-9441-7},
abstract = {The Pygmies are among the remaining ‘savages’ in West and Central Africa. This paper demonstrates how the governance of nature through sedentarization, the creation of national parks as a mechanism of forestry conservation and the failure to endorse standard environmental safeguards in the creation of the Tchad-Cameroon pipeline project have led to the devastation of the livelihood of the indigenous pygmies. Simultaneously, by categorizing the Pygmies as a ‘primitive other’ despite the very dynamism of the concept of culture, the state of Cameroon has excluded them from the benefits of postmodernist development. I demonstrate that projects aimed at modernizing them, and achieving sustainability have instead accentuated their exclusion because of their presumed cultural isolation, led to their deep entrenchment in poverty and resulted in complete erasure. The failure of these projects is due to the clash between global and local perspectives and interests over the Western protectionism and nature aesthetics that underpin conservation and development schemes, and the government’s failure to ensure that developers fulfill their obligations to affected communities, as well as the non-recognition of the multiplex relationships between hunter-gatherers and farmers that is based on cultural, historical and political ecology. Against this backdrop, development has thus, become a process of erasure in which the livelihood of the Pygmies has been balkanized and their cultural existence and identity, negated.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2023-12-02},
journal = {GeoJournal},
author = {PEMUNTA, Ngambouk},
year = {2013},
keywords = {Region: Africa / Middle East, Language: English, Country: Cameroon},
pages = {353--371},
file = {Pemunta - 2013 - The governance of nature as development and the er.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/5WKGIJ5Z/Pemunta - 2013 - The governance of nature as development and the er.pdf:application/pdf},
}Indigenous geographies II: the aspirational spaces in postcolonial politics – reconciliation, belonging and social provision. COOMBES, B., JOHNSON, J., & HOWITT, R. Progress in Human Geography, 37(5):691–700, 2013.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Required to negotiate a transcultural present in which their rights and opportunities are circumscribed by the pleadings of multicultural others, Indigenous peoples have attracted attention for their approaches to alliance-building, responsible co-existence and self-determined care. In this second report on Indigenous geographies1, we associate those projects with the geographies of hope but, recognizing that a futuristic gaze on allegedly progressive cases can lapse into naivety, we call for further postcolonial critique of the influences on those cases. We distinguish retrospective and prospective applications of postcolonial theory, suggesting that while geographers initially disregarded the latter they now exaggerate that outlook in hopeful advocacy for Indigenous alternatives. Nonetheless, we conclude with examples of reconciliation and Indigenous service provision which attest to the social significance and aspirational character of Indigenous responses, both from the margins and in the focus of everyday politics.
@article{coombes_indigenous_2013,
series = {Transregional},
title = {Indigenous geographies {II}: the aspirational spaces in postcolonial politics – reconciliation, belonging and social provision},
volume = {37},
issn = {0309-1325, 1477-0288},
shorttitle = {Indigenous geographies {II}},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309132512469590},
doi = {10.1177/0309132512469590},
abstract = {Required to negotiate a transcultural present in which their rights and opportunities are circumscribed by the pleadings of multicultural others, Indigenous peoples have attracted attention for their approaches to alliance-building, responsible co-existence and self-determined care. In this second report on Indigenous geographies1, we associate those projects with the geographies of hope but, recognizing that a futuristic gaze on allegedly progressive cases can lapse into naivety, we call for further postcolonial critique of the influences on those cases. We distinguish retrospective and prospective applications of postcolonial theory, suggesting that while geographers initially disregarded the latter they now exaggerate that outlook in hopeful advocacy for Indigenous alternatives. Nonetheless, we conclude with examples of reconciliation and Indigenous service provision which attest to the social significance and aspirational character of Indigenous responses, both from the margins and in the focus of everyday politics.},
language = {en},
number = {5},
urldate = {2023-10-26},
journal = {Progress in Human Geography},
author = {COOMBES, Brad and JOHNSON, Jay and HOWITT, Richard},
year = {2013},
keywords = {Region: Transregional, Language: English},
pages = {691--700},
file = {Coombes et al. - 2013 - Indigenous geographies II The aspirational spaces.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/5Q42E6W2/Coombes et al. - 2013 - Indigenous geographies II The aspirational spaces.pdf:application/pdf},
}2012 (9)
Weaving lives together: collaborative fieldwork in North East Arnhem Land, Australia. LLOYD, K., WRIGHT, S., SUCHET-PEARSON, S., BURARRWANGA, L., & HODGE, P. Annales de Géographie, 687-688:513–524, 2012.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Weaving lives together at Bawaka, North-East Arnhem Land is a book about basket weaving and culture. In this paper, some of the co-authors of the text, non-Indigenous academics and an Indigenous woman from northern Australia, reflect on the process of creating the book. We argue that jointly authoring a book about weaving lives has in fact interwoven all our lives in a manner which confronts many traditional academic accounts of research and fieldwork. Through the process of researching and writing the book we have experienced a sharing of knowledge and a sharing of family. In particular, we have learnt that relationships cannot be planned and that uncertainty can lead to creative transformations.
@article{lloyd_weaving_2012,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Weaving lives together: collaborative fieldwork in {North} {East} {Arnhem} {Land}, {Australia}},
volume = {687-688},
issn = {0003-4010},
shorttitle = {Weaving lives together},
url = {https://cairn.info/revue-annales-de-geographie-2012-5-page-513.htm?ref=doi},
doi = {10.3917/ag.687.0513},
abstract = {Weaving lives together at Bawaka, North-East Arnhem Land is a book about basket weaving and culture. In this paper, some of the co-authors of the text, non-Indigenous academics and an Indigenous woman from northern Australia, reflect on the process of creating the book. We argue that jointly authoring a book about weaving lives has in fact interwoven all our lives in a manner which confronts many traditional academic accounts of research and fieldwork. Through the process of researching and writing the book we have experienced a sharing of knowledge and a sharing of family. In particular, we have learnt that relationships cannot be planned and that uncertainty can lead to creative transformations.},
language = {en},
urldate = {2023-10-22},
journal = {Annales de Géographie},
author = {LLOYD, Kate and WRIGHT, Sarah and SUCHET-PEARSON, Sandra and BURARRWANGA, Laklak and HODGE, Paul},
year = {2012},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {513--524},
file = {Lloyd et al. - 2012 - Weaving lives together collaborative fieldwork i.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/CHVQSZ8X/Lloyd et al. - 2012 - Weaving lives together collaborative fieldwork i.pdf:application/pdf},
}Mining development and environmental injustice in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ROMERO ARAVENA, H., MENDEZ, M., & SMITH, P. Environmental Justice, 5(2):70–76, 2012.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Large amounts of national and transnational capital are currently being invested in mining projects located in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest deserts in the world. These projects require large quantities of water for their industrial processes. Water sources in the middle of this desert are extremely limited, despite many lakes, lagoons, salt lakes, and wetlands located on the Andean highlands, bordering its eastern side. Most of them are located in natural conservation areas or territories claimed by indigenous communities. Given the lack of superficial water, location of mining projects in northernmost Chilean regions are beginning to be increasingly located near ground resources and overlapping nature conservation areas, biodiversity protection sites, and communal lands claimed by indigenous peoples. At present, water withdrawal by mining companies has been favored by governments and legislation and supported by neoliberal mechanisms such as privatization and commodification of natural resources. On the opposing side, ecosystems and local communities have lost the battle, due to the increasing competition for water resources that is threatening the subsistence of living systems in this part of Chile.
@article{romero_aravena_mining_2012,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Mining development and environmental injustice in the {Atacama} {Desert} of northern {Chile}},
volume = {5},
url = {https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/env.2011.0017},
doi = {10.1089/env.2011.00},
abstract = {Large amounts of national and transnational capital are currently being invested in mining projects located in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest deserts in the world. These projects require large quantities of water for their industrial processes. Water sources in the middle of this desert are extremely limited, despite many lakes, lagoons, salt lakes, and wetlands located on the Andean highlands, bordering its eastern side. Most of them are located in natural conservation areas or territories claimed by indigenous communities. Given the lack of superficial water, location of mining projects in northernmost Chilean regions are beginning to be increasingly located near ground resources and overlapping nature conservation areas, biodiversity protection sites, and communal lands claimed by indigenous peoples. At present, water withdrawal by mining companies has been favored by governments and legislation and supported by neoliberal mechanisms such as privatization and commodification of natural resources. On the opposing side, ecosystems and local communities have lost the battle, due to the increasing competition for water resources that is threatening the subsistence of living systems in this part of Chile.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Environmental Justice},
author = {ROMERO ARAVENA, Hugo and MENDEZ, Manuel and SMITH, Pamela},
year = {2012},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Chile},
pages = {70--76},
file = {ROMERO ARAVENA et al. - 2012 - Mining development and environmental injustice in .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/8BNZG78S/ROMERO ARAVENA et al. - 2012 - Mining development and environmental injustice in .pdf:application/pdf},
}Demographic consequences of the ‘Closing the Gap’ Indigenous policy in Australia. BIDDLE, N. & TAYLOR, J. Population Research and Policy Review, 31(4):571–585, 2012.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex The demography of Indigenous Australians is distinguished from that of other Australians by relatively high mortality and fertility leading to very different composition by age. This is beginning to change as movement towards a conver- gence in vital rates is observed. In the meantime, the Australian government has established targets for Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes that simultaneously impact on, and are affected by, the course of demographic change. This paper examines the relationship between these targets and projected Indigenous demo- graphic outcomes that arise from incipient population ageing. The most likely scenario is movement into an indeterminate period of potential demographic divi- dend. If demand for Indigenous labour expands alongside reductions in age dependency this could provide for dramatic improvement in Indigenous economic circumstances. However, caution is warranted as disparities in adult mortality require long-term solutions and movement into a second phase of demographic transition appears likely to be delayed.
@article{biddle_demographic_2012,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Demographic consequences of the ‘{Closing} the {Gap}’ {Indigenous} policy in {Australia}},
volume = {31},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-012-9235-8},
doi = {10.1007/s11113-012-9235-8},
abstract = {The demography of Indigenous Australians is distinguished from that of other Australians by relatively high mortality and fertility leading to very different composition by age. This is beginning to change as movement towards a conver- gence in vital rates is observed. In the meantime, the Australian government has established targets for Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes that simultaneously impact on, and are affected by, the course of demographic change. This paper examines the relationship between these targets and projected Indigenous demo- graphic outcomes that arise from incipient population ageing. The most likely scenario is movement into an indeterminate period of potential demographic divi- dend. If demand for Indigenous labour expands alongside reductions in age dependency this could provide for dramatic improvement in Indigenous economic circumstances. However, caution is warranted as disparities in adult mortality require long-term solutions and movement into a second phase of demographic transition appears likely to be delayed.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
journal = {Population Research and Policy Review},
author = {BIDDLE, Nicholas and TAYLOR, John},
year = {2012},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {571--585},
file = {BIDDLE et TAYLOR - 2012 - Demographic consequences of the ‘Closing the Gap’ .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/DPEPPGPP/BIDDLE et TAYLOR - 2012 - Demographic consequences of the ‘Closing the Gap’ .pdf:application/pdf},
}Urbanization and transformation of indigenous resource management: The case of Upper Rio Negro (Brazil). ELOY, L. & LASMAR, C. International Journal of Sustainable Society, 4(4):372–388, 2012.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Indigenous resource management is transforming in the face of urbanisation in Amazonia. We wonder how land tenure arrangements feature a new kind of resource management in peri-urban areas. Data were obtained from ethnographic and agro-economic interviews combined with a geographic information system analysis of population and land tenure distribution nearby São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Northwest Amazonia. The territories of each indigenous village are composed by many kinds of land use rights, ranging from exclusive ownership to common property. In the peri-urban area, private property has become the main land use right. But most of indigenous families resort to a multi-sited land use in rural–urban areas. The multi-sited pattern is associated with diversification of land use rights in the same households and extended families. These innovations reveal the adaptation of indigenous resource management.
@article{eloy_urbanization_2012,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Urbanization and transformation of indigenous resource management: {The} case of {Upper} {Rio} {Negro} ({Brazil})},
volume = {4},
url = {https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJSSOC.2012.049407},
doi = {10.1504/IJSSOC.2012.049407},
abstract = {Indigenous resource management is transforming in the face of urbanisation in Amazonia. We wonder how land tenure arrangements feature a new kind of resource management in peri-urban areas. Data were obtained from ethnographic and agro-economic interviews combined with a geographic information system analysis of population and land tenure distribution nearby São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Northwest Amazonia. The territories of each indigenous village are composed by many kinds of land use rights, ranging from exclusive ownership to common property. In the peri-urban area, private property has become the main land use right. But most of indigenous families resort to a multi-sited land use in rural–urban areas. The multi-sited pattern is associated with diversification of land use rights in the same households and extended families. These innovations reveal the adaptation of indigenous resource management.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
journal = {International Journal of Sustainable Society},
author = {ELOY, Ludivine and LASMAR, Cristiane},
year = {2012},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Brazil},
pages = {372--388},
file = {ELOY et LASMAR - 2012 - Urbanization and transformation of indigenous reso.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/Q3LURBJ3/ELOY et LASMAR - 2012 - Urbanization and transformation of indigenous reso.pdf:application/pdf},
}Collaborative geomatics and the Mushkegowuk Cree First Nations: fostering adaptive capacity for community-based sub-Arctic natural resource management. McCARTHY, D., WHITELAW, G., ANDERSON, S., COWAN, D., McGARRY, F., ROBINS, A., GARDNER, H., BARBEAU, C., CHARANIA, N., GENERAL, Z., LIEDTKE, J., SUTHERLAND, C., ALENCAR, P., & TSUJI, L. Geoforum, 43(2):305–314, 2012.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex The remote First Nation (FN) communities of the Mushkegowuk Territory on the west coast of James Bay, Ontario, Canada are currently facing increased development pressures and the imposition of a government land use planning process. The land use planning process is mandated in the Far North Act (received Royal Assent on September 23, 2010). There is a need for capacity enhancement for community-based natural resource planning and management in the Territory. A number of frameworks are emerging for addressing change brought on by resource development and building resilience to such change at the community level. Among these include the concept of adaptive capacity. In collaboration with FN community leaders, we explored the use of ‘‘collaborative geomatics’’ tools to foster adaptive capacity. Our action research suggests that collaborative geomatics technologies should enhance the Mushkegowuk First Nations’ adaptive capacity to address environmental and policy change by allowing them to collect and manage data collaboratively (e.g., traditional environmental knowledge, western science) to create opportunities for innovative community development, including natural resource development and management.
@article{mccarthy_collaborative_2012,
series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {Collaborative geomatics and the {Mushkegowuk} {Cree} {First} {Nations}: fostering adaptive capacity for community-based sub-{Arctic} natural resource management},
volume = {43},
issn = {00167185},
shorttitle = {Collaborative geomatics and the {Mushkegowuk} {Cree} {First} {Nations}},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016718511001503},
doi = {10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.07.015},
abstract = {The remote First Nation (FN) communities of the Mushkegowuk Territory on the west coast of James Bay, Ontario, Canada are currently facing increased development pressures and the imposition of a government land use planning process. The land use planning process is mandated in the Far North Act (received Royal Assent on September 23, 2010). There is a need for capacity enhancement for community-based natural resource planning and management in the Territory. A number of frameworks are emerging for addressing change brought on by resource development and building resilience to such change at the community level. Among these include the concept of adaptive capacity. In collaboration with FN community leaders, we explored the use of ‘‘collaborative geomatics’’ tools to foster adaptive capacity. Our action research suggests that collaborative geomatics technologies should enhance the Mushkegowuk First Nations’ adaptive capacity to address environmental and policy change by allowing them to collect and manage data collaboratively (e.g., traditional environmental knowledge, western science) to create opportunities for innovative community development, including natural resource development and management.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2024-03-10},
journal = {Geoforum},
author = {McCARTHY, Daniel and WHITELAW, Graham and ANDERSON, Scott and COWAN, Donald and McGARRY, Fred and ROBINS, Anthony and GARDNER, Holly and BARBEAU, Christine and CHARANIA, Nadia and GENERAL, Zachariah and LIEDTKE, Jeff and SUTHERLAND, Celine and ALENCAR, Paulo and TSUJI, Leonard},
year = {2012},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: Canada},
pages = {305--314},
file = {McCarthy et al. - 2012 - Collaborative geomatics and the Mushkegowuk Cree F.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/8VS5WAV2/McCarthy et al. - 2012 - Collaborative geomatics and the Mushkegowuk Cree F.pdf:application/pdf},
}Can Andean medicine coexist with biomedical healthcare? A comparison of two rural communities in Peru and Bolivia. MATHEZ-STIEFEL, S., VANDEBROEK, I., & RIST, S. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 8:e26, 2012.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex It is commonly assumed that indigenous medical systems remain strong in developing countries because biomedicine is physically inaccessible or financially not affordable. This paper compares the health-seeking behavior of households from rural Andean communities at a Peruvian and a Bolivian study site. The main research question was whether the increased presence of biomedicine led to a displacement of Andean indigenous medical practices or to coexistence of the two healing traditions. Open-ended interviews and free listing exercises were conducted between June 2006 and December 2008 with 18 households at each study site. Qualitative identification of households’ therapeutic strategies and use of remedies was carried out by means of content analysis of interview transcriptions and inductive interference. Furthermore, a quantitative assessment of the incidence of culture-bound illnesses in local ethnobiological inventories was performed. Our findings indicate that the health-seeking behavior of the Andean households in this study is independent of the degree of availability of biomedical facilities in terms of quality of services provided, physical accessibility, and financial affordability, except for specific practices such as childbirth. Preference for natural remedies over pharmaceuticals coexists with biomedical healthcare that is both accessible and affordable. Furthermore, our results show that greater access to biomedicine does not lead to less prevalence of Andean indigenous medical knowledge, as represented by the levels of knowledge about culture-bound illnesses. The take-home lesson for health policy-makers from this study is that the main obstacle to use of biomedicine in resource-poor rural areas might not be infrastructural or economic alone. Rather, it may lie in lack of sufficient recognition by biomedical practitioners of the value and importance of indigenous medical systems. We propose that the implementation of health care in indigenous communities be designed as a process of joint development of complementary knowledge and practices from indigenous and biomedical health traditions.
@article{mathez-stiefel_can_2012,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Can {Andean} medicine coexist with biomedical healthcare? {A} comparison of two rural communities in {Peru} and {Bolivia}},
volume = {8},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-8-26},
doi = {10.1186/1746-4269-8-26},
abstract = {It is commonly assumed that indigenous medical systems remain strong in developing countries because biomedicine is physically inaccessible or financially not affordable. This paper compares the health-seeking behavior of households from rural Andean communities at a Peruvian and a Bolivian study site. The main research question was whether the increased presence of biomedicine led to a displacement of Andean indigenous medical practices or to coexistence of the two healing traditions. Open-ended interviews and free listing exercises were conducted between June 2006 and December 2008 with 18 households at each study site. Qualitative identification of households’ therapeutic strategies and use of remedies was carried out by means of content analysis of interview transcriptions and inductive interference. Furthermore, a quantitative assessment of the incidence of culture-bound illnesses in local ethnobiological inventories was performed. Our findings indicate that the health-seeking behavior of the Andean households in this study is independent of the degree of availability of biomedical facilities in terms of quality of services provided, physical accessibility, and financial affordability, except for specific practices such as childbirth. Preference for natural remedies over pharmaceuticals coexists with biomedical healthcare that is both accessible and affordable. Furthermore, our results show that greater access to biomedicine does not lead to less prevalence of Andean indigenous medical knowledge, as represented by the levels of knowledge about culture-bound illnesses. The take-home lesson for health policy-makers from this study is that the main obstacle to use of biomedicine in resource-poor rural areas might not be infrastructural or economic alone. Rather, it may lie in lack of sufficient recognition by biomedical practitioners of the value and importance of indigenous medical systems. We propose that the implementation of health care in indigenous communities be designed as a process of joint development of complementary knowledge and practices from indigenous and biomedical health traditions.},
language = {en},
journal = {Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine},
author = {MATHEZ-STIEFEL, Sarah-Lan and VANDEBROEK, Ina and RIST, Stephan},
year = {2012},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Bolivia, Country: Peru, Topic: Health},
pages = {e26},
file = {MATHEZ-STIEFEL et al. - 2012 - Can Andean medicine coexist with biomedical health.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/M2JLRFWD/MATHEZ-STIEFEL et al. - 2012 - Can Andean medicine coexist with biomedical health.pdf:application/pdf},
}Consultation, compensation and conflict: natural gas extraction in Weenhayek territory, Bolivia. HUMPHREYS BEBBINGTON, D. Journal of Latin American Geography, 11(2):49–71, 2012.
Paper abstract bibtex
Paper abstract bibtex This paper examines how the growing importance of natural gas production in the Bolivian Chaco has shaped the possibilities for lowland indigenous groups, such as the Weenhayek, to: a) recover ancestral lands; b) consolidate greater levels of self governance and autonomy; and c) and access flows of gas rents in order to sustain traditional ways of living. Through a focus on specific projects and processes of state-led Consultation and Participation, I explore how natural gas expansion has generated conflicts within Weenhayek society as well as between the Weenhayek, the Bolivian state and extractive industry enterprises. I argue that the tensions surrounding hydrocarbon expansion and processes of consultation must be understood in light of the particular economic calculations, territorial experiences and organizational dynamics of the Weenhayek in both historical and contemporary periods. These economic calculations are heavily marked by the logic of collection and the overriding importance of securing livelihoods – both in general but also from season to season. Tensions over hydrocarbons in Weenhayek territory must also be understood in a context in which government policies favor central political imperatives over the sub-national projects of indigenous groups.
@article{humphreys_bebbington_consultation_2012,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Consultation, compensation and conflict: natural gas extraction in {Weenhayek} territory, {Bolivia}},
volume = {11},
url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/24394812},
abstract = {This paper examines how the growing importance of natural gas production in the Bolivian Chaco has shaped the possibilities for lowland indigenous groups, such as the Weenhayek, to: a) recover ancestral lands; b) consolidate greater levels of self governance and autonomy; and c) and access flows of gas rents in order to sustain traditional ways of living. Through a focus on specific projects and processes of state-led Consultation and Participation, I explore how natural gas expansion has generated conflicts within Weenhayek society as well as between the Weenhayek, the Bolivian state and extractive industry enterprises. I argue that the tensions surrounding hydrocarbon expansion and processes of consultation must be understood in light of the particular economic calculations, territorial experiences and organizational dynamics of the Weenhayek in both historical and contemporary periods. These economic calculations are heavily marked by the logic of collection and the overriding importance of securing livelihoods – both in general but also from season to season. Tensions over hydrocarbons in Weenhayek territory must also be understood in a context in which government policies favor central political imperatives over the sub-national projects of indigenous groups.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Journal of Latin American Geography},
author = {HUMPHREYS BEBBINGTON, Denise},
year = {2012},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Bolivia, Topic: Fossil fuels},
pages = {49--71},
file = {HUMPHREYS BEBBINGTON - 2012 - Consultation, compensation and conflict natural g.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/RCJHTJP7/HUMPHREYS BEBBINGTON - 2012 - Consultation, compensation and conflict natural g.pdf:application/pdf},
}Indigenous wellbeing fameworks in Australia and the quest for quantification. PROUT QUICKE, S. Social Indicators Research, 109(2):317–336, 2012.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex There is an emerging global recognition of the inadequacies of conventional socio-economic and demographic data in being able to reflect the relative wellbeing of Indigenous peoples. This paper emerges out of a recent desktop study commissioned by an Australian Indigenous organization who identified a need to enhance local literacies in data collection and interpretation in order to monitor the wellbeing of the Indigenous people within their region, manage governments in respect of their civic responsibilities to this population, and proactively and imaginatively plan for the future of the Indigenous people in their region. In canvassing available data and the growing Indigenous wellbeing liter- ature, it became apparent that conventional statistical collections used to report on the status of populations are governed by a series of assumptions regarding three related concepts: wellbeing; demography; and economic productivity and prosperity. These assumptions have direct implications for how Indigenous peoples are represented to governments and broader society. The paper draws together the existing threads of liter- ature regarding Indigenous wellbeing research to posit a possible broader framework for organising various kinds of Indigenous wellbeing analyses. In doing so, it identifies important shortcomings and deficits in the kinds of data that are available to Indigenous peoples in presenting themselves and their aspirations to governments with. It also opens up a critical analysis of the opportunities and obstacles for Indigenous communities in undertaking such research.
@article{prout_quicke_indigenous_2012,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Indigenous wellbeing fameworks in {Australia} and the quest for quantification},
volume = {109},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-011-9905-7},
doi = {10.1007/s11205-011-9905-7},
abstract = {There is an emerging global recognition of the inadequacies of conventional socio-economic and demographic data in being able to reflect the relative wellbeing of Indigenous peoples. This paper emerges out of a recent desktop study commissioned by an Australian Indigenous organization who identified a need to enhance local literacies in data collection and interpretation in order to monitor the wellbeing of the Indigenous people within their region, manage governments in respect of their civic responsibilities to this population, and proactively and imaginatively plan for the future of the Indigenous people in their region. In canvassing available data and the growing Indigenous wellbeing liter- ature, it became apparent that conventional statistical collections used to report on the status of populations are governed by a series of assumptions regarding three related concepts: wellbeing; demography; and economic productivity and prosperity. These assumptions have direct implications for how Indigenous peoples are represented to governments and broader society. The paper draws together the existing threads of liter- ature regarding Indigenous wellbeing research to posit a possible broader framework for organising various kinds of Indigenous wellbeing analyses. In doing so, it identifies important shortcomings and deficits in the kinds of data that are available to Indigenous peoples in presenting themselves and their aspirations to governments with. It also opens up a critical analysis of the opportunities and obstacles for Indigenous communities in undertaking such research.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Social Indicators Research},
author = {PROUT QUICKE, Sarah},
year = {2012},
keywords = {Language: English, Region: Oceania / Pacific},
pages = {317--336},
file = {PROUT QUICKE - 2012 - Indigenous wellbeing fameworks in Australia and th.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/KJDHLFYZ/PROUT QUICKE - 2012 - Indigenous wellbeing fameworks in Australia and th.pdf:application/pdf},
}Rethinking ‘the Human’ in memory of Fay Gale (AO). ANDERSON, K. Geographical Research, 50(1):3–14, 2012.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex In 1972, the late Fay Gale (AO) published a characteristically self-styled book titled Urban Aborigines. It launched a richly diverse career that delivered an exceptional legacy to the academic discipline of geography, aboriginal justice, university administration, and women’s professional advancement. This article, based on a 2010 lecture in her honour, takes up Fay’s intellectual contribution to one of these fields. It pursues her critical interest in the clash of indigenous/settler cultures in Australia through a novel account of the notorious head-measuring practices of 19th century racial craniometry. Probing the Western premise that ‘mind’ is the assured marker of human distinction from nature, the article explores a question of fundamental contemporary relevance for Australian audiences and others across the globe: are there fresh prospects for reconciling settler and indigenous, as well as ‘green’ and ‘growth’, values if the conceit of this distinction can be overcome? This question is provoked from a peculiarly southern perspective in the spirit of the insistently geographic project that was Urban Aborigines.
@article{anderson_rethinking_2012,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Rethinking ‘the {Human}’ in memory of {Fay} {Gale} ({AO})},
volume = {50},
issn = {1745-5863, 1745-5871},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-5871.2011.00716.x},
doi = {10.1111/j.1745-5871.2011.00716.x},
abstract = {In 1972, the late Fay Gale (AO) published a characteristically self-styled book titled Urban Aborigines. It launched a richly diverse career that delivered an exceptional legacy to the academic discipline of geography, aboriginal justice, university administration, and women’s professional advancement. This article, based on a 2010 lecture in her honour, takes up Fay’s intellectual contribution to one of these fields. It pursues her critical interest in the clash of indigenous/settler cultures in Australia through a novel account of the notorious head-measuring practices of 19th century racial craniometry. Probing the Western premise that ‘mind’ is the assured marker of human distinction from nature, the article explores a question of fundamental contemporary relevance for Australian audiences and others across the globe: are there fresh prospects for reconciling settler and indigenous, as well as ‘green’ and ‘growth’, values if the conceit of this distinction can be overcome? This question is provoked from a peculiarly southern perspective in the spirit of the insistently geographic project that was Urban Aborigines.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
urldate = {2024-03-09},
journal = {Geographical Research},
author = {ANDERSON, Kay},
year = {2012},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {3--14},
file = {Anderson - 2012 - Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Memory of Fay Gale (AO).pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/26LRC2PW/Anderson - 2012 - Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Memory of Fay Gale (AO).pdf:application/pdf},
}2011 (2)
Neoliberalism, mineral development and indigenous people: a framework for analysis. HOWLETT, C., SEINI, M., McCALLUM, D., & OSBORNE, N. Australian Geographer, 42(3):309–323, 2011.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex There have been suggestions in recent literature that neoliberalism and globalisation present positive opportunities for Indigenous communities engaging in resource development projects on their traditional lands. This paper will present evidence from preliminary research on the neoliberal restructuring that has endured for those Indigenous communities of Queensland who have engaged with mineral development opportunities. Initial findings indicate that the State has devolved some of its responsibilities to the mining company in relation to Indigenous development and service provision. This paper develops a theoretical and analytical framework to enable an examination of the implications of this voluntary devolution of responsibility for Indigenous development and service provision and questions whether this represents a positive opportunity for Indigenous people in the region.
@article{howlett_neoliberalism_2011,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Neoliberalism, mineral development and indigenous people: a framework for analysis},
volume = {42},
issn = {0004-9182, 1465-3311},
shorttitle = {Neoliberalism, {Mineral} {Development} and {Indigenous} {People}},
url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00049182.2011.595890},
doi = {10.1080/00049182.2011.595890},
abstract = {There have been suggestions in recent literature that neoliberalism and globalisation present positive opportunities for Indigenous communities engaging in resource development projects on their traditional lands. This paper will present evidence from preliminary research on the neoliberal restructuring that has endured for those Indigenous communities of Queensland who have engaged with mineral development opportunities. Initial findings indicate that the State has devolved some of its responsibilities to the mining company in relation to Indigenous development and service provision. This paper develops a theoretical and analytical framework to enable an examination of the implications of this voluntary devolution of responsibility for Indigenous development and service provision and questions whether this represents a positive opportunity for Indigenous people in the region.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2023-11-19},
journal = {Australian Geographer},
author = {HOWLETT, Catherine and SEINI, Monica and McCALLUM, Diana and OSBORNE, Natalie},
year = {2011},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {309--323},
file = {Howlett et al. - 2011 - Neoliberalism, Mineral Development and Indigenous .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/Z6MPQKPN/Howlett et al. - 2011 - Neoliberalism, Mineral Development and Indigenous .pdf:application/pdf},
}Redefining identities, redefining landscapes: Indigenous identity and land rights struggles in the Brazilian. BOLAÑOS, O. Amazon Journal of Cultural Geography, 28(1):45–72, 2011.
bibtex
bibtex
@article{bolanos_redefining_2011,
title = {Redefining identities, redefining landscapes: {Indigenous} identity and land rights struggles in the {Brazilian}},
volume = {28},
language = {en},
number = {1},
journal = {Amazon Journal of Cultural Geography},
author = {BOLAÑOS, Omaira},
year = {2011},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English},
pages = {45--72},
}2010 (5)
More-than-human social geographies: posthuman and other possibilities. PANELLI, R. Progress in Human Geography, 34(1):79–87, 2010.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex While ‘the social’ is problematized in diverse ways in current geographical debates this report reflects on the ongoing relevance of social geographies, especially those that attend to the complexity and interconnectivity of life. This review outlines three ways in which society-nature relations are being interrogated via: poststructural, posthuman and Indigenous foci. It concludes that important questions of social difference and unequal power relations remain relevant for more-than-human geographies.
@article{panelli_more-than-human_2010,
series = {Transregional},
title = {More-than-human social geographies: posthuman and other possibilities},
volume = {34},
issn = {0309-1325, 1477-0288},
shorttitle = {More-than-human social geographies},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309132509105007},
doi = {10.1177/0309132509105007},
abstract = {While ‘the social’ is problematized in diverse ways in current geographical debates this report reflects on the ongoing relevance of social geographies, especially those that attend to the complexity and interconnectivity of life. This review outlines three ways in which society-nature relations are being interrogated via: poststructural, posthuman and Indigenous foci. It concludes that important questions of social difference and unequal power relations remain relevant for more-than-human geographies.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
urldate = {2023-10-26},
journal = {Progress in Human Geography},
author = {PANELLI, Ruth},
year = {2010},
keywords = {Region: Transregional, Language: English},
pages = {79--87},
file = {Panelli - 2010 - More-than-human social geographies posthuman and .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/XYGFI229/Panelli - 2010 - More-than-human social geographies posthuman and .pdf:application/pdf},
}Racial narratives: Miskito and colono land struggles in the Honduran Mosquitia. MOLLETT, S. Cultural Geographies, 18(1):43–62, 2010.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This article examines the multiple ways race and racialized processes are embedded in Miskito Indian and ladino colono land struggles in Honduras. In the context of more than 30 years of state refusals to formalize the boundaries of Miskito ancestral territories, this article interrogates the ways in which the state accommodates ladino colono encroachments inside Miskito space. State and colono challenges to Miskito customary claims echo early post-colonial narratives of integration under the Civilization Program. Drawing from ethnographic accounts, this article illuminates how meanings and practices are intertwined in the way land use production and racial hierarchies are mutually constituted. Thus, I argue that Miskito, state and colono narratives of land struggle draw on, contest and reinvigorate a longstanding state nationalist project of ‘whitening’ where racial imaginaries are encoded in environmental arrangements and assessed through ascendant conceptions of suitable and unsuitable land use practices.
@article{mollett_racial_2010,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Racial narratives: {Miskito} and colono land struggles in the {Honduran} {Mosquitia}},
volume = {18},
issn = {1474-4740, 1477-0881},
shorttitle = {Racial narratives},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474474010384928},
doi = {10.1177/1474474010384928},
abstract = {This article examines the multiple ways race and racialized processes are embedded in Miskito Indian and ladino colono land struggles in Honduras. In the context of more than 30 years of state refusals to formalize the boundaries of Miskito ancestral territories, this article interrogates the ways in which the state accommodates ladino colono encroachments inside Miskito space. State and colono challenges to Miskito customary claims echo early post-colonial narratives of integration under the Civilization Program. Drawing from ethnographic accounts, this article illuminates how meanings and practices are intertwined in the way land use production and racial hierarchies are mutually constituted. Thus, I argue that Miskito, state and colono narratives of land struggle draw on, contest and reinvigorate a longstanding state nationalist project of ‘whitening’ where racial imaginaries are encoded in environmental arrangements and assessed through ascendant conceptions of suitable and unsuitable land use practices.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
urldate = {2021-04-01},
journal = {Cultural Geographies},
author = {MOLLETT, Sharlene},
year = {2010},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Honduras},
pages = {43--62},
file = {Mollett - 2011 - Racial narratives Miskito and colono land struggl.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/68NKPHXL/Mollett - 2011 - Racial narratives Miskito and colono land struggl.pdf:application/pdf},
}Está listo (are you ready)? Gender, race and land registration in the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve. MOLLETT, S. Gender, Place & Culture, 17(3):357–375, 2010.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Geographers and political ecologists are paying increased attention to the ways in which conservation policies disrupt indigenous customary tenure arrangements. However, much less attention is given to the particular ways protected area management shapes natural resource access for indigenous women. With this in mind, this article examines how a recently proposed state land project in Honduras, Catastro y Regularización, requires that Miskito residents individuate collective family lands in the interests of ‘sustainable development’ and ‘biodiversity protection’. In the debates that followed the project’s announcement, Miskito women feared that such measures would erase their customary access to family lands. As the state’s project seeks to re-order Reserve land, intra-Miskito struggles intensified among villagers. Such struggles are not only gendered but are shaped by longstanding processes of racialization in Honduras and the Mosquitia region. Drawing upon ethnographic research, I argue that Miskito women’s subjectivity and rights to customary family holdings are informed by their ability to make ‘patriarchal bargains’ with Miskito men inside the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve. Such findings suggest that scholars and policy makers continue to reflect on the ways global conservation and sustainable development practices may undermine indigenous customary tenure securities, whether intentionally or not.
@article{mollett_esta_2010,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Está listo (are you ready)? {Gender}, race and land registration in the {Río} {Plátano} {Biosphere} {Reserve}},
volume = {17},
issn = {0966-369X, 1360-0524},
shorttitle = {\textit{{Está} listo} ({Are} you ready)?},
url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09663691003737629},
doi = {10.1080/09663691003737629},
abstract = {Geographers and political ecologists are paying increased attention to the ways in which conservation policies disrupt indigenous customary tenure arrangements. However, much less attention is given to the particular ways protected area management shapes natural resource access for indigenous women. With this in mind, this article examines how a recently proposed state land project in Honduras, Catastro y Regularización, requires that Miskito residents individuate collective family lands in the interests of ‘sustainable development’ and ‘biodiversity protection’. In the debates that followed the project’s announcement, Miskito women feared that such measures would erase their customary access to family lands. As the state’s project seeks to re-order Reserve land, intra-Miskito struggles intensified among villagers. Such struggles are not only gendered but are shaped by longstanding processes of racialization in Honduras and the Mosquitia region. Drawing upon ethnographic research, I argue that Miskito women’s subjectivity and rights to customary family holdings are informed by their ability to make ‘patriarchal bargains’ with Miskito men inside the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve. Such findings suggest that scholars and policy makers continue to reflect on the ways global conservation and sustainable development practices may undermine indigenous customary tenure securities, whether intentionally or not.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2021-04-01},
journal = {Gender, Place \& Culture},
author = {MOLLETT, Sharlene},
year = {2010},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Honduras},
pages = {357--375},
file = {Mollett - 2010 - Está listo (Are you ready) Gender, race an.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/8VHPNM2R/Mollett - 2010 - Está listo (Are you ready) Gender, race an.pdf:application/pdf},
}Diasporic indigeneity: place and the articulation of Ainu identity in Tokyo, Japan. WATSON, M. Environment and Planning A - Economy and Space, 42(2):268–284, 2010.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Representations of Indigenous people as rooted and sedentary reinforce ideas of their presence in cities as strange and out of place. This is problematic. In a world where an increasing number if not majority of Indigenous people live in urban or metropolitan areas, cities are now critical sites of Indigenous negotiation, appropriation, marginalization, and emplacement. This paper opens up the analysis of urban Indigenous life from the perspective of place and its role in the articulation of urban Indigenous identities. It takes as a case study the situation of indigenous Ainu in and around Tokyo. The interrogation of place highlights how Ainu are socially active in the city and critiques the regionalization of Ainu affairs to northern Japan.
@article{watson_diasporic_2010,
series = {Asia},
title = {Diasporic indigeneity: place and the articulation of {Ainu} identity in {Tokyo}, {Japan}},
volume = {42},
issn = {0308-518X, 1472-3409},
shorttitle = {Diasporic {Indigeneity}},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/a41112},
doi = {10.1068/a41112},
abstract = {Representations of Indigenous people as rooted and sedentary reinforce ideas of their presence in cities as strange and out of place. This is problematic. In a world where an increasing number if not majority of Indigenous people live in urban or metropolitan areas, cities are now critical sites of Indigenous negotiation, appropriation, marginalization, and emplacement. This paper opens up the analysis of urban Indigenous life from the perspective of place and its role in the articulation of urban Indigenous identities. It takes as a case study the situation of indigenous Ainu in and around Tokyo. The interrogation of place highlights how Ainu are socially active in the city and critiques the regionalization of Ainu affairs to northern Japan.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2023-12-02},
journal = {Environment and Planning A - Economy and Space},
author = {WATSON, Mark},
year = {2010},
keywords = {Region: Asia, Language: English, Country: Japan, Topic: Urban areas},
pages = {268--284},
file = {Watson - 2010 - Diasporic Indigeneity Place and the Articulation .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/ES5ISIQG/Watson - 2010 - Diasporic Indigeneity Place and the Articulation .pdf:application/pdf},
}Adapting to climate change in Andean ecosystems: landscapes, capitals, and perceptions shaping rural livelihood strategies and linking knowledge systems. VALDIVIA, C., SETH, A., GILLES, J., GARCIA, M., JIMENEZ, E., CUSICANQUI, J., NAVIA, F., & YUCRA, E. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(4):818–834, 2010.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex In the Bolivian Altiplano, indigenous systems for dealing with weather and climate risk are failing or being lost as a result of migration, climate change, and market integration. Andean rural communities are particu- larly vulnerable to changing social and environmental conditions. Changing climate over the past forty years and current forecast models point to increasing temperatures and later onset of rains during the growing sea- son. Current meteorological models are coarse grained and not well suited to the complex topology of the Andes - so local-scale information is required for decisions. This article outlines a process for developing new local knowledge that can be used to enhance adaptive processes. This is a three-step process that includes assessment of local knowledge, the development of future scenarios, and the use of participatory research methods to identify alternative adaptation strategies. Initial analyses based on the survey of 330 households in nine communities indicate that northern Alitplano communities are more vulnerable than central Alti- plano ones. In both areas, losses from climate shocks are high, but the types of hazards vary by location. The use of local knowledge indicators of climate is declining, and downscaling of climate forecasts is unlikely to occur due to the lack of data points and the large number of microclimates. Participatory mapping and re- search, where knowledge is shared, are processes that enhance adaptive capacity and are critical to building resilience. This article outlines a strategy for linking science-based and indigenous methods to develop early warning systems that are an important part of coping strategies. This approach combines science and indigenous knowledge to enhance adaptive capacity.
@article{valdivia_adapting_2010,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Adapting to climate change in {Andean} ecosystems: landscapes, capitals, and perceptions shaping rural livelihood strategies and linking knowledge systems},
volume = {100},
issn = {0004-5608, 1467-8306},
shorttitle = {Adapting to {Climate} {Change} in {Andean} {Ecosystems}},
url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045608.2010.500198},
doi = {10.1080/00045608.2010.500198},
abstract = {In the Bolivian Altiplano, indigenous systems for dealing with weather and climate risk are failing or being lost as a result of migration, climate change, and market integration. Andean rural communities are particu- larly vulnerable to changing social and environmental conditions. Changing climate over the past forty years and current forecast models point to increasing temperatures and later onset of rains during the growing sea- son. Current meteorological models are coarse grained and not well suited to the complex topology of the Andes - so local-scale information is required for decisions. This article outlines a process for developing new local knowledge that can be used to enhance adaptive processes. This is a three-step process that includes assessment of local knowledge, the development of future scenarios, and the use of participatory research methods to identify alternative adaptation strategies. Initial analyses based on the survey of 330 households in nine communities indicate that northern Alitplano communities are more vulnerable than central Alti- plano ones. In both areas, losses from climate shocks are high, but the types of hazards vary by location. The use of local knowledge indicators of climate is declining, and downscaling of climate forecasts is unlikely to occur due to the lack of data points and the large number of microclimates. Participatory mapping and re- search, where knowledge is shared, are processes that enhance adaptive capacity and are critical to building resilience. This article outlines a strategy for linking science-based and indigenous methods to develop early warning systems that are an important part of coping strategies. This approach combines science and indigenous knowledge to enhance adaptive capacity.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
urldate = {2021-04-30},
journal = {Annals of the Association of American Geographers},
author = {VALDIVIA, Corinne and SETH, Anji and GILLES, Jere and GARCIA, Magali and JIMENEZ, Elizabeth and CUSICANQUI, Jorge and NAVIA, Fredy and YUCRA, Edwin},
year = {2010},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Bolivia},
pages = {818--834},
file = {Valdivia et al. - 2010 - Adapting to Climate Change in Andean Ecosystems L.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/MDETVPTB/Valdivia et al. - 2010 - Adapting to Climate Change in Andean Ecosystems L.pdf:application/pdf},
}2009 (1)
Indigenous demography and public policy in Australia: population or peoples?. TAYLOR, J. Journal of Population Research, 26(2):115–130, 2009.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This paper reviews the application of demographic analysis to Indigenous Affairs public policy in Australia as an exemplar case of the demography of disadvantage. Demography has found a natural and successful role using census, survey and administrative data, but for the most part this is restricted to a series of gap analyses based on a deficit model of Indigenous well-being as measured by standard social indicators. While useful for macropolicy settings, translation of these research findings into coherent policy on the ground is thwarted by a lack of ethnographically informed data that account for the intercultural world in which many Indigenous people exist and operate. This is because the categories and contexts deployed are uncritically those of the mainstream, and not those reflective of Indigenous social structures or life projects. This inadequacy is explored against the background of an emerging dialogue between demography and anthropology. Ironically, Australian demographers pioneered such a dialogue but so far it has failed to penetrate demographic research that informs Indigenous public policy.
@article{taylor_indigenous_2009,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Indigenous demography and public policy in {Australia}: population or peoples?},
volume = {26},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12546-009-9010-9},
doi = {10.1007/s12546-009-9010-9},
abstract = {This paper reviews the application of demographic analysis to Indigenous Affairs public policy in Australia as an exemplar case of the demography of disadvantage. Demography has found a natural and successful role using census, survey and administrative data, but for the most part this is restricted to a series of gap analyses based on a deficit model of Indigenous well-being as measured by standard social indicators. While useful for macropolicy settings, translation of these research findings into coherent policy on the ground is thwarted by a lack of ethnographically informed data that account for the intercultural world in which many Indigenous people exist and operate. This is because the categories and contexts deployed are uncritically those of the mainstream, and not those reflective of Indigenous social structures or life projects. This inadequacy is explored against the background of an emerging dialogue between demography and anthropology. Ironically, Australian demographers pioneered such a dialogue but so far it has failed to penetrate demographic research that informs Indigenous public policy.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Journal of Population Research},
author = {TAYLOR, John},
year = {2009},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {115--130},
file = {TAYLOR - 2009 - Indigenous demography and public policy in Austral.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/PCYC8WJA/TAYLOR - 2009 - Indigenous demography and public policy in Austral.pdf:application/pdf},
}2008 (5)
The knowledge that counts: institutional identities, policy science, and the conflict over fire management in the Gran Sabana, Venezuela. SLETTO, B. World Development, 36(10):1938–1955, 2008.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex The cultures of environmental planning agencies shape institutional identities and management interventions. Central to such institutional cultures is knowledge production, which is shaped by political–economic processes, dominant narratives and institutional desires to produce ‘‘conservation’’ landscapes. Through knowledge production, certain scientific knowledge and data are appropriated, while others are excluded. In the case of fire management in the Gran Sabana, Venezuela, a project of policy science draws on selected scientific knowledge and emphasizes remote sensing and quantitative analysis at the expense of indigenous knowledge and prescriptive burning practices. This policy science emerges from an institutional culture that favors fire suppression as a means to recreate a desired, imaginary forest.
@article{sletto_knowledge_2008,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {The knowledge that counts: institutional identities, policy science, and the conflict over fire management in the {Gran} {Sabana}, {Venezuela}},
volume = {36},
issn = {0305750X},
shorttitle = {The {Knowledge} that {Counts}},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0305750X08001265},
doi = {10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.02.008},
abstract = {The cultures of environmental planning agencies shape institutional identities and management interventions. Central to such institutional cultures is knowledge production, which is shaped by political–economic processes, dominant narratives and institutional desires to produce ‘‘conservation’’ landscapes. Through knowledge production, certain scientific knowledge and data are appropriated, while others are excluded. In the case of fire management in the Gran Sabana, Venezuela, a project of policy science draws on selected scientific knowledge and emphasizes remote sensing and quantitative analysis at the expense of indigenous knowledge and prescriptive burning practices. This policy science emerges from an institutional culture that favors fire suppression as a means to recreate a desired, imaginary forest.},
language = {en},
number = {10},
urldate = {2021-04-01},
journal = {World Development},
author = {SLETTO, Bjørn},
year = {2008},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Venezuela},
pages = {1938--1955},
file = {Sletto - 2008 - The Knowledge that Counts Institutional Identitie.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/I9PDUVUG/Sletto - 2008 - The Knowledge that Counts Institutional Identitie.pdf:application/pdf},
}Accountability constructions, contestations and implications: insights from working in a Yolngu cross-cultural institution, Australia. MULLER, S. Geography Compass, 2(2):395–413, 2008.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Accountability, a keyword in the development discourse, also takes centre stage in the practical politics of the development processes. Accountability requirements for funding, governance and recognition operate at multiple scales to ensure standards are complied with, funds are accounted for, corruption is minimised, and the impact government and other donor contributions have on the development process is maximised. However, for many intended beneficiaries, the demands of accountability procedures and the relationships they set in place create tension and can conflict with local accountability practices and governance; as is exemplified by the experiences of the Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation in Northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Dhimurru, an incorporated Aboriginal land and sea management organisation, was established by Yolngu land-owners, who have long-standing perspectives on accountability, self-determination, environmental protection and development that highlight the requirement and challenges of contextualising accountability in the context of local procedures and practices.
@article{muller_accountability_2008,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Accountability constructions, contestations and implications: insights from working in a {Yolngu} cross-cultural institution, {Australia}},
volume = {2},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00087.x},
doi = {10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00087.x},
abstract = {Accountability, a keyword in the development discourse, also takes centre stage in the practical politics of the development processes. Accountability requirements for funding, governance and recognition operate at multiple scales to ensure standards are complied with, funds are accounted for, corruption is minimised, and the impact government and other donor contributions have on the development process is maximised. However, for many intended beneficiaries, the demands of accountability procedures and the relationships they set in place create tension and can conflict with local accountability practices and governance; as is exemplified by the experiences of the Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation in Northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Dhimurru, an incorporated Aboriginal land and sea management organisation, was established by Yolngu land-owners, who have long-standing perspectives on accountability, self-determination, environmental protection and development that highlight the requirement and challenges of contextualising accountability in the context of local procedures and practices.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Geography Compass},
author = {MULLER, Samantha},
year = {2008},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {395--413},
file = {MULLER - 2008 - Accountability constructions, contestations and im.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/8FKMTYEW/MULLER - 2008 - Accountability constructions, contestations and im.pdf:application/pdf},
}Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories. CAMERON, E. Cultural Geographies, 15(3):383–393, 2008.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This essay considers the politics of describing Indigenous peoples as ghostly or haunting presences. Focusing on the history of haunting tropes in Canadian cultural production and the recent re-emergence of the spectral Indigenous figure in, among other places, a wilderness park in southwestern British Columbia, I argue that the mobilization of haunting tropes to make sense of contemporary settler-Indigenous relations reinscribes colonial power relations and fails to account for the specific experiences and claims of Indigenous peoples. At a time when cultural geographers are contemplating the possibilities of a `spectral turn', this essay asks what politics are involved in deploying a spectro-geographical approach to studies of the colonial and postcolonial.
@article{cameron_indigenous_2008,
series = {North {America}},
title = {Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories},
volume = {15},
issn = {1474-4740, 1477-0881},
shorttitle = {cultural geographies essay},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474474008091334},
doi = {10.1177/1474474008091334},
abstract = {This essay considers the politics of describing Indigenous peoples as ghostly or haunting presences. Focusing on the history of haunting tropes in Canadian cultural production and the recent re-emergence of the spectral Indigenous figure in, among other places, a wilderness park in southwestern British Columbia, I argue that the mobilization of haunting tropes to make sense of contemporary settler-Indigenous relations reinscribes colonial power relations and fails to account for the specific experiences and claims of Indigenous peoples. At a time when cultural geographers are contemplating the possibilities of a `spectral turn', this essay asks what politics are involved in deploying a spectro-geographical approach to studies of the colonial and postcolonial.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2023-12-02},
journal = {Cultural Geographies},
author = {CAMERON, Emilie},
year = {2008},
keywords = {Region: North America, Language: English, Country: Canada},
pages = {383--393},
file = {Cameron - 2008 - cultural geographies essay Indigenous spectrality.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/N678BZP5/Cameron - 2008 - cultural geographies essay Indigenous spectrality.pdf:application/pdf},
}Aboriginal settlement patterns in Canadian cities: does the classic index-based approach apply?. STARCHENKO, O. & PETERS, E. Environment and Planning A - Economy and Space, 40(3):676–695, 2008.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Based on the evidence obtained in qualitative studies, Massey and Denton argued in their 1988 paper (``The dimensions of residential segregation'' Social Forces 67 281 \textasciicircum 315) that the residential segregation of ethnic or racialized groups is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon and, therefore, should be measured along several dimensions simultaneously. In a systematic review and analysis of all segregation measures proposed to that date, they identified five conceptually distinct dimensions of ethnic segregationöevenness, exposure, concentration, centralization, and clusteringöand `best indices' to measure them. This index-based approach has achieved a `canonical' status and has been employed in numerous studies of segregation patterns. However, it is often overlooked that the structure of ethnic residential segregation uncovered by Massey and Denton is specific to the context in which segregation takes place ö that is, the residential segregation of ethnic and racialized groups in US cities. This paper attempts to assess the utility of Massey and Denton's five-dimensional structure of segregation for the study of settlement patterns of Aboriginal people in Canadian metropolitan areas. We find that the application of the Massey and Denton model to the urban Aboriginal population in Canadian cities produces a significantly different structure of segregation.
@article{starchenko_aboriginal_2008,
series = {North {America}},
title = {Aboriginal settlement patterns in {Canadian} cities: does the classic index-based approach apply?},
volume = {40},
issn = {0308-518X, 1472-3409},
shorttitle = {Aboriginal {Settlement} {Patterns} in {Canadian} {Cities}},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/a39112},
doi = {10.1068/a39112},
abstract = {Based on the evidence obtained in qualitative studies, Massey and Denton argued in their 1988 paper (``The dimensions of residential segregation'' Social Forces 67 281 {\textasciicircum} 315) that the residential segregation of ethnic or racialized groups is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon and, therefore, should be measured along several dimensions simultaneously. In a systematic review and analysis of all segregation measures proposed to that date, they identified five conceptually distinct dimensions of ethnic segregationöevenness, exposure, concentration, centralization, and clusteringöand `best indices' to measure them. This index-based approach has achieved a `canonical' status and has been employed in numerous studies of segregation patterns. However, it is often overlooked that the structure of ethnic residential segregation uncovered by Massey and Denton is specific to the context in which segregation takes place ö that is, the residential segregation of ethnic and racialized groups in US cities. This paper attempts to assess the utility of Massey and Denton's five-dimensional structure of segregation for the study of settlement patterns of Aboriginal people in Canadian metropolitan areas. We find that the application of the Massey and Denton model to the urban Aboriginal population in Canadian cities produces a significantly different structure of segregation.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2023-12-02},
journal = {Environment and Planning A - Economy and Space},
author = {STARCHENKO, Oksana and PETERS, Evelyn},
year = {2008},
keywords = {Region: North America, Language: English, Country: Canada},
pages = {676--695},
file = {Starchenko et Peters - 2008 - Aboriginal Settlement Patterns in Canadian Cities.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/QCR87G4C/Starchenko et Peters - 2008 - Aboriginal Settlement Patterns in Canadian Cities.pdf:application/pdf},
}New Caledonian development and the Kanak voice. D'HAUTESERRE, A. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 32(3):29–50, 2008.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Prolonged stays in French Polynesia and Madagascar and later in the state of Connecticut awakened my interest in Indigenous culture and its preservation, colonial imposition and appropriations, and postcolonial relations between the colonized and colonizers. Such research could seem unreasonably rash because, according to Lyotard, Indigenous people are different, “irrepresentable,” for Europeans. Stokes too cautions to “tread warily as this is not our geography.” As a bilingual researcher in the Pacific, I feel compelled to bring knowledge of the French-speaking territories and some understanding of their different and differing political contexts to the attention of the English-speaking world I live in. Research in Pacific Island countries, including French pays, requires that its methodology and approaches be decolonized so that the Kanak (in New Caledonia) or the Polynesian (in French Polynesia and the Territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands) voice “enunciates” or spells out their concerns and priorities rather than mine. This article analyzes how tourism, because it is possible to establish it from the grass roots, encouraged within New Caledonia by the French government is used to (try to) overcome decades of colonial rule in spite of political and colonial resistance by the white settler community known as Caldoche (see fig. 1). Caldoche also often includes other white groups who have settled in New Caledonia, even if only temporarily. The article will first justify the postcolonial framework used for this analysis, including its limitations. It will then describe the (post?) colonial context of New Caledonia. Tourism is examined from a postcolonial geographic perspective to determine its validity as a tool to rebalance economic wealth in New Caledonia through economic growth in areas where the Kanak population is predominant. One aim of tourism is to counter emigration so that people remain on and exploit the tribal lands located in the two provinces where the Kanak are the majority.
@article{dhauteserre_new_2008,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {New {Caledonian} development and the {Kanak} voice},
volume = {32},
url = {https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dx051fv},
doi = {10.17953/aicr.32.3.n222720885h18108},
abstract = {Prolonged stays in French Polynesia and Madagascar and later in the state of Connecticut awakened my interest in Indigenous culture and its preservation, colonial imposition and appropriations, and postcolonial relations between the colonized and colonizers. Such research could seem unreasonably rash because, according to Lyotard, Indigenous people are different, “irrepresentable,” for Europeans. Stokes too cautions to “tread warily as this is not our geography.” As a bilingual researcher in the Pacific, I feel compelled to bring knowledge of the French-speaking territories and some understanding of their different and differing political contexts to the attention of the English-speaking world I live in. Research in Pacific Island countries, including French pays, requires that its methodology and approaches be decolonized so that the Kanak (in New Caledonia) or the Polynesian (in French Polynesia and the Territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands) voice “enunciates” or spells out their concerns and priorities rather than mine. This article analyzes how tourism, because it is possible to establish it from the grass roots, encouraged within New Caledonia by the French government is used to (try to) overcome decades of colonial rule in spite of political and colonial resistance by the white settler community known as Caldoche (see fig. 1). Caldoche also often includes other white groups who have settled in New Caledonia, even if only temporarily. The article will first justify the postcolonial framework used for this analysis, including its limitations. It will then describe the (post?) colonial context of New Caledonia. Tourism is examined from a postcolonial geographic perspective to determine its validity as a tool to rebalance economic wealth in New Caledonia through economic growth in areas where the Kanak population is predominant. One aim of tourism is to counter emigration so that people remain on and exploit the tribal lands located in the two provinces where the Kanak are the majority.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
journal = {American Indian Culture and Research Journal},
author = {D'HAUTESERRE, Anne-Marie},
year = {2008},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: France-New Caledonia},
pages = {29--50},
file = {D'HAUTESERRE - 2008 - New Caledonian development and the Kanak voice.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/IILG9WPE/D'HAUTESERRE - 2008 - New Caledonian development and the Kanak voice.pdf:application/pdf},
}2007 (5)
Defending community? Indigeneity, selfdetermination and institutional ambivalence in the restoration of Lake Whakaki. COOMBES, B. Geoforum, 38(1):60–72, 2007.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Conservation practitioners have scrutinized the credibility and eVectiveness of community-based natural resource management, noting its romantic misconceptions about communities and their capacities. Early approaches failed to acknowledge the heterogeneity of collective agents, the synergy between decentralization and neoliberalism, or the need to aYrm rural peoples’ entitlements to resources. A Maori community’s attempt to restore Lake Whakaki on New Zealand’s east coast conWrms many of these critiques. The restoration confronts institutional ambivalence, obstructive forces from beyond the zone of Maori inXuence and non-correspondence between community and catchment dynamics. FulWlment of the project requires exogenous resources and authority, but state conservation agencies are ambivalent towards local demands for self-determined development. Nonetheless, an uncommon degree of agency which is grounded within community aspirations for sovereignty suggests that the motivational characteristics of community retain their importance in debates about integrated conservation and development.
@article{coombes_defending_2007,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Defending community? {Indigeneity}, selfdetermination and institutional ambivalence in the restoration of {Lake} {Whakaki}},
volume = {38},
issn = {00167185},
shorttitle = {Defending community?},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016718506000637},
doi = {10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.05.006},
abstract = {Conservation practitioners have scrutinized the credibility and eVectiveness of community-based natural resource management, noting its romantic misconceptions about communities and their capacities. Early approaches failed to acknowledge the heterogeneity of collective agents, the synergy between decentralization and neoliberalism, or the need to aYrm rural peoples’ entitlements to resources. A Maori community’s attempt to restore Lake Whakaki on New Zealand’s east coast conWrms many of these critiques. The restoration confronts institutional ambivalence, obstructive forces from beyond the zone of Maori inXuence and non-correspondence between community and catchment dynamics. FulWlment of the project requires exogenous resources and authority, but state conservation agencies are ambivalent towards local demands for self-determined development. Nonetheless, an uncommon degree of agency which is grounded within community aspirations for sovereignty suggests that the motivational characteristics of community retain their importance in debates about integrated conservation and development.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
urldate = {2024-03-10},
journal = {Geoforum},
author = {COOMBES, Brad},
year = {2007},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: New Zealand},
pages = {60--72},
file = {Coombes - 2007 - Defending community Indigeneity, self-determinati.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/S274QRTN/Coombes - 2007 - Defending community Indigeneity, self-determinati.pdf:application/pdf},
}Re/placing native science: indigenous voices in contemporary constructions of nature. JOHNSON, J. & MURTON, B. Geographical Research, 45(2):121–129, 2007.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Since the earliest days of the European Enlightenment, Western people have sought to remove themselves from nature and the ‘savage’ non-European masses. This distancing has relied upon various intellectual techniques and theories. The social construction of nature precipitated by Enlightenment thinking separated culture from nature, culture being defined as civilised European society. This separation has served to displace the Native voice within the colonial construction of Nature. This separation has also served as one thread in the long modern ‘disenchantment’ of Westerners and nature, a ‘disenchantment’ described so adeptly by Adorno and Horkheimer (1973). Unfortunately though, this displacement is not only a historical event. The absence of modern Native voices within discussions of nature perpetuates the colonial displacement which blossomed following the Enlightenment. In his book entitled, Native Science, Gregory Cajete describes Native science as ‘a lived and creative relationship with the natural world ... [an] intimate and creative participation [which] heightens awareness of the subtle qualities of a place’ (2000, 20). Perhaps place offers a ‘common ground’ between Western and Indigenous thought; a ‘common ground’ upon which to re/write the meta-narrative of Enlightenment thought. This paper will seek to aid in the re/placement of modern Native voices within constructions of nature and seek to begin healing the disenchantment caused through the rupture between culture and nature in Western science.
@article{johnson_replacing_2007,
series = {Transregional},
title = {Re/placing native science: indigenous voices in contemporary constructions of nature},
volume = {45},
issn = {1745-5863, 1745-5871},
shorttitle = {Re/placing {Native} {Science}},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-5871.2007.00442.x},
doi = {10.1111/j.1745-5871.2007.00442.x},
abstract = {Since the earliest days of the European Enlightenment, Western people have sought to remove themselves from nature and the ‘savage’ non-European masses. This distancing has relied upon various intellectual techniques and theories. The social construction of nature precipitated by Enlightenment thinking separated culture from nature, culture being defined as civilised European society. This separation has served to displace the Native voice within the colonial construction of Nature. This separation has also served as one thread in the long modern ‘disenchantment’ of Westerners and nature, a ‘disenchantment’ described so adeptly by Adorno and Horkheimer (1973). Unfortunately though, this displacement is not only a historical event. The absence of modern Native voices within discussions of nature perpetuates the colonial displacement which blossomed following the Enlightenment. In his book entitled, Native Science, Gregory Cajete describes Native science as ‘a lived and creative relationship with the natural world ... [an] intimate and creative participation [which] heightens awareness of the subtle qualities of a place’ (2000, 20). Perhaps place offers a ‘common ground’ between Western and Indigenous thought; a ‘common ground’ upon which to re/write the meta-narrative of Enlightenment thought. This paper will seek to aid in the re/placement of modern Native voices within constructions of nature and seek to begin healing the disenchantment caused through the rupture between culture and nature in Western science.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2024-03-09},
journal = {Geographical Research},
author = {JOHNSON, Jay and MURTON, Brian},
year = {2007},
keywords = {Region: Transregional, Language: English},
pages = {121--129},
file = {Johnson et Murton - 2007 - Replacing Native Science Indigenous Voices in Co.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/W3JG8P5V/Johnson et Murton - 2007 - Replacing Native Science Indigenous Voices in Co.pdf:application/pdf},
}Critiquing environmental management in indigenous Australia: two case studies. CARTER, J. & HILL, G. Area, 39(1):43–54, 2007.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex The notion of community participation in sustainable environmental management is well documented, but applications between environmental scientists and indigenous Australians are less known. Many indigenous Australians are socially and culturally marginalized, and agencies debate over appropriate designs for collaborative, crosscultural environmental programmes that will alleviate marginalization. This paper presents two case studies from northern Australia, where indigenous people participated in an environmental project exploring the commercial potential of the local sea cucumber resource. A framework with principles of participation and knowledge exchange guided project implementation at both localities. Participant observation data that related to these principles suggests that abuse of power imbalances and exploitation (institutional racism) may be more easily disguised within formalized governance structures than in the informal networks and structures that can be supported through less formalized representation. Linking informal and formal governance structures and canvassing a range of governance modalities will ultimately connect the human behaviours and governance structures needed to progress indigenous environmental management in Australia.
@article{carter_critiquing_2007,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Critiquing environmental management in indigenous {Australia}: two case studies},
volume = {39},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00716.x},
doi = {10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00716.x},
abstract = {The notion of community participation in sustainable environmental management is well documented, but applications between environmental scientists and indigenous Australians are less known. Many indigenous Australians are socially and culturally marginalized, and agencies debate over appropriate designs for collaborative, crosscultural environmental programmes that will alleviate marginalization. This paper presents two case studies from northern Australia, where indigenous people participated in an environmental project exploring the commercial potential of the local sea cucumber resource. A framework with principles of participation and knowledge exchange guided project implementation at both localities. Participant observation data that related to these principles suggests that abuse of power imbalances and exploitation (institutional racism) may be more easily disguised within formalized governance structures than in the informal networks and structures that can be supported through less formalized representation. Linking informal and formal governance structures and canvassing a range of governance modalities will ultimately connect the human behaviours and governance structures needed to progress indigenous environmental management in Australia.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
journal = {Area},
author = {CARTER, Jennifer and HILL, Greg},
year = {2007},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {43--54},
file = {Carter et Hill - 2007 - Critiquing environmental management in BlackwellPu.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/2UX448HB/Carter et Hill - 2007 - Critiquing environmental management in BlackwellPu.pdf:application/pdf},
}Ethics, hegemonic whiteness, and the contested imagination of ‘Aboriginal community’ in social science research in Canada. BERG, L., EVANS, M., FULLER, D., & Collective, T. O. U. A. H. R. ACME, 6(3):395–410, 2007.
Paper abstract bibtex
Paper abstract bibtex This paper examines bureaucratic structures and the interplay of race, place and institutional ethics involved in a process of establishing a multi-cultural research project with Aboriginal peoples in a Canadian urban context. The paper focuses on the way that one of Canada's national research councils (SSHRC) has attempted to respond positively to contest the marginalization of Aboriginal people in research settings. In revising its research ethics policies to better protect Aboriginal peoples involved in research projects that it funds, SSHRC policy has had the somewhat contradictory effect of further marginalizing urban Aboriginal people. The paper is thus an attempt to illustrate empirically some of the power laden character of the ethics of 'participation'. A key point we wish to illustrate is that especially in Participatory Action Research, the who and the how of participation is never innocent or purely process driven, but rather always already power- full. These power relations have significant implications for the way that we should understand ethics as relational processes in research with Aboriginal and other indigenous peoples.
@article{berg_ethics_2007,
series = {North {America}},
title = {Ethics, hegemonic whiteness, and the contested imagination of ‘{Aboriginal} community’ in social science research in {Canada}},
volume = {6},
url = {https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/788},
abstract = {This paper examines bureaucratic structures and the interplay of race, place and institutional ethics involved in a process of establishing a multi-cultural research project with Aboriginal peoples in a Canadian urban context. The paper focuses on the way that one of Canada's national research councils (SSHRC) has attempted to respond positively to contest the marginalization of Aboriginal people in research settings. In revising its research ethics policies to better protect Aboriginal peoples involved in research projects that it funds, SSHRC policy has had the somewhat contradictory effect of further marginalizing urban Aboriginal people. The paper is thus an attempt to illustrate empirically some of the power laden character of the ethics of 'participation'. A key point we wish to illustrate is that especially in Participatory Action Research, the who and the how of participation is never innocent or purely process driven, but rather always already power- full. These power relations have significant implications for the way that we should understand ethics as relational processes in research with Aboriginal and other indigenous peoples.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
journal = {ACME},
author = {BERG, Lawrence and EVANS, Mike and FULLER, Duncan and The Okanagan Urban Aboriginal Health Research Collective},
year = {2007},
keywords = {Region: North America, Language: English, Country: Canada},
pages = {395--410},
file = {Berg et al. - Ethics, Hegemonic Whiteness, and the Contested Ima.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/2JY6VVID/Berg et al. - Ethics, Hegemonic Whiteness, and the Contested Ima.pdf:application/pdf},
}Can you hear us now? Voices from the margin: using indigenous methodologies in geographic research. LOUIS, R. P. Geographical Research, 45(2):130–139, 2007.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Indigenous methodologies are an alternative way of thinking about research processes. Although these methodologies vary according to the ways in which different Indigenous communities express their own unique knowledge systems, they do have common traits. This article argues that research on Indigenous issues should be carried out in a manner which is respectful and ethically sound from an Indigenous perspective. This naturally challenges Western research paradigms, yet it also affords opportunities to contribute to the body of knowledge about Indigenous peoples. It is further argued that providing a mechanism for Indigenous peoples to participate in and direct these research agendas ensures that their communal needs are met, and that geographers then learn how to build ethical research relationships with them. Indigenous methodologies do not privilege Indigenous researchers because of their Indigeneity, since there are many ‘insider’ views, and these are thus suitable for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers. However, there is a difference between research done within an Indigenous context using Western methodologies and research done using Indigenous methodologies which integrates Indigenous voices. This paper will discuss those differences while presenting a historical context of research on Indigenous peoples, providing further insights into what Indigenous methodologies entail, and proposing ways in which the academy can create space for this discourse.
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title = {Can you hear us now? {Voices} from the margin: using indigenous methodologies in geographic research},
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shorttitle = {Can {You} {Hear} us {Now}?},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-5871.2007.00443.x},
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abstract = {Indigenous methodologies are an alternative way of thinking about research processes. Although these methodologies vary according to the ways in which different Indigenous communities express their own unique knowledge systems, they do have common traits. This article argues that research on Indigenous issues should be carried out in a manner which is respectful and ethically sound from an Indigenous perspective. This naturally challenges Western research paradigms, yet it also affords opportunities to contribute to the body of knowledge about Indigenous peoples. It is further argued that providing a mechanism for Indigenous peoples to participate in and direct these research agendas ensures that their communal needs are met, and that geographers then learn how to build ethical research relationships with them. Indigenous methodologies do not privilege Indigenous researchers because of their Indigeneity, since there are many ‘insider’ views, and these are thus suitable for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers. However, there is a difference between research done within an Indigenous context using Western methodologies and research done using Indigenous methodologies which integrates Indigenous voices. This paper will discuss those differences while presenting a historical context of research on Indigenous peoples, providing further insights into what Indigenous methodologies entail, and proposing ways in which the academy can create space for this discourse.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2024-03-09},
journal = {Geographical Research},
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}2006 (2)
Aboriginal perspectives on kangaroo management in South Australia. THOMSEN, D., MUIR, K., & DAVIES, J. The Rangeland Journal, 28(2):127–137, 2006.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Kangaroos are culturally significant to Aboriginal people but Aboriginal people are generally not involved in kangaroo management or in the kangaroo industry. Our research has provided the first opportunity for Aboriginal people in South Australia to present their perspectives on the commercial harvest of kangaroos. Research methods were qualitative, involving consultations with authoritative Aboriginal people about their perspectives, aspirations, and how they see their rights and interests in relation to the commercial harvest of kangaroos. We found diverse views on this topic from Aboriginal research participants. For some Aboriginal people, strict cultural protocols preclude any involvement in the commercial harvest, but for people from other regions where the cultural laws concerning kangaroos are quite different, there is interest in developing enterprises based on kangaroo harvest. Despite the diversity of views about commercial kangaroo harvest, Aboriginal people across South Australia highly value kangaroos, and want to be included in decision-making processes for kangaroo management. There is potential for appropriate engagement of Aboriginal people in kangaroo management through improved communication, greater understanding and respect for the diversity of Aboriginal perspectives and protocols regarding native wildlife.
@article{thomsen_aboriginal_2006,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Aboriginal perspectives on kangaroo management in {South} {Australia}},
volume = {28},
url = {https://www.publish.csiro.au/RJ/RJ05028},
doi = {10.1071/RJ05028},
abstract = {Kangaroos are culturally significant to Aboriginal people but Aboriginal people are generally not involved in kangaroo management or in the kangaroo industry. Our research has provided the first opportunity for Aboriginal people in South Australia to present their perspectives on the commercial harvest of kangaroos. Research methods were qualitative, involving consultations with authoritative Aboriginal people about their perspectives, aspirations, and how they see their rights and interests in relation to the commercial harvest of kangaroos. We found diverse views on this topic from Aboriginal research participants. For some Aboriginal people, strict cultural protocols preclude any involvement in the commercial harvest, but for people from other regions where the cultural laws concerning kangaroos are quite different, there is interest in developing enterprises based on kangaroo harvest. Despite the diversity of views about commercial kangaroo harvest, Aboriginal people across South Australia highly value kangaroos, and want to be included in decision-making processes for kangaroo management. There is potential for appropriate engagement of Aboriginal people in kangaroo management through improved communication, greater understanding and respect for the diversity of Aboriginal perspectives and protocols regarding native wildlife.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {The Rangeland Journal},
author = {THOMSEN, Dana and MUIR, Kado and DAVIES, Jocelyn},
year = {2006},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {127--137},
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}Conservation encounters: transculturation in the ‘contact zones’ of empire. SUNDBERG, J. Cultural Geographies, 13(2):239–265, 2006.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex In the last 20 years, Latin American countries have experienced a boom in conservation territories. At the same time, neoliberal restructuring of Latin American economies has devolved funding and management responsibilities to international NGOs. In this context, conservation projects have become important zones of encounter and contact, wherein those inhabiting protected areas are necessarily subject to and subjected by the discourses and practices of conservation institutions. How do local actors engage with these processes? This paper examines the cultural politics of conservation encounters in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a protected area in Guatemala's northern department of Petén. Drawing upon the concept of transculturation and anti–essentialist framings of subject formation as performative, I outline how differently situated social groups in the reserve negotiate, contest and enact the daily discourses and practices of conservation as articulated by powerful US based international organizations.
@article{sundberg_conservation_2006,
title = {Conservation encounters: transculturation in the ‘contact zones’ of empire},
volume = {13},
issn = {1474-4740, 1477-0881},
shorttitle = {Conservation encounters},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1191/1474474005eu337oa},
doi = {10.1191/1474474005eu337oa},
abstract = {In the last 20 years, Latin American countries have experienced a boom in conservation territories. At the same time, neoliberal restructuring of Latin American economies has devolved funding and management responsibilities to international NGOs. In this context, conservation projects have become important zones of encounter and contact, wherein those inhabiting protected areas are necessarily subject to and subjected by the discourses and practices of conservation institutions. How do local actors engage with these processes? This paper examines the cultural politics of conservation encounters in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a protected area in Guatemala's northern department of Petén. Drawing upon the concept of transculturation and anti–essentialist framings of subject formation as performative, I outline how differently situated social groups in the reserve negotiate, contest and enact the daily discourses and practices of conservation as articulated by powerful US based international organizations.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2023-12-02},
journal = {Cultural Geographies},
author = {SUNDBERG, Juanita},
year = {2006},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Guatemala},
pages = {239--265},
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}2005 (3)
Conflicts for control of Mapuche-Pehuenche land and natural resources in the Biobio highlands. AZOCAR GARCIA, G., SANHUEZA, R., AGUAYO, M., ROMERO ARAVENA, H., & MUÑOZ, M. Chile Journal of Latin American Geography, 4(2):57–76, 2005.
bibtex
bibtex
@article{azocar_garcia_conflicts_2005,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Conflicts for control of {Mapuche}-{Pehuenche} land and natural resources in the {Biobio} highlands},
volume = {4},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Chile Journal of Latin American Geography},
author = {AZOCAR GARCIA, Gerardo and SANHUEZA, Rodrigo and AGUAYO, Mauricio and ROMERO ARAVENA, Hugo and MUÑOZ, María},
year = {2005},
keywords = {Country: Chile, Language: English, Region: Latin America / Caribbean},
pages = {57--76},
file = {AZOCAR GARCIA et al. - 2005 - Conflicts for control of Mapuche-Pehuenche land an.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/22EU97Z7/AZOCAR GARCIA et al. - 2005 - Conflicts for control of Mapuche-Pehuenche land an.pdf:application/pdf},
}A ‘demographic turnaround’. The rapid growth of indigenous populations in lowland Latin America. McSWEENEY, K. & ARPS, S. Latin American Research Review, 40(1):3–29, 2005.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex In contrast to the rich scholarship documenting the traumatic postcontact destruction of indigenous populations in the Latin American tropics, little is known about their contemporary population dynamics. What accounts for the "demographic turnaround" reported for some groups? How widespread is population recovery, and what are its implicationsfor indigenous political resurgence? We address these questions by compiling recent (post-1980) demographic indieators for over one hundred lowland indigenous populations. Despite remarkable socioeconomic and cultural diversity among tiiese groups, we find compelling evidence that they nevertheless share a common trajectory of very rapid growth over the past two decades, especially in contrast to non-indigenous populations. We briefly review the implications of their dramatic physical resurgence and show how closer attention to this phenomenon is overdue. We discuss the relevance of indigenous societies' recovery to scholarship and praxis in the areas of health and education, cultural and political gains, and demographic theory.
@article{mcsweeney_demographic_2005,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {A ‘demographic turnaround’. {The} rapid growth of indigenous populations in lowland {Latin} {America}},
volume = {40},
url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/178324},
doi = {10.1353/lar.2005.0012},
abstract = {In contrast to the rich scholarship documenting the traumatic postcontact destruction of indigenous populations in the Latin American tropics, little is known about their contemporary population dynamics. What accounts for the "demographic turnaround" reported for some groups? How widespread is population recovery, and what are its implicationsfor indigenous political resurgence? We address these questions by compiling recent (post-1980) demographic indieators for over one hundred lowland indigenous populations. Despite remarkable socioeconomic and cultural diversity among tiiese groups, we find compelling evidence that they nevertheless share a common trajectory of very rapid growth over the past two decades, especially in contrast to non-indigenous populations. We briefly review the implications of their dramatic physical resurgence and show how closer attention to this phenomenon is overdue. We discuss the relevance of indigenous societies' recovery to scholarship and praxis in the areas of health and education, cultural and political gains, and demographic theory.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
journal = {Latin American Research Review},
author = {McSWEENEY, Kendra and ARPS, Shahna},
year = {2005},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English},
pages = {3--29},
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}Knowledge, values, uses and management of the Araucaria araucana forest by the Indigenous Mapuche Pewenche people: a basis for collaborative natural resource management in Southern Chile. HERRMANN, T. Natural Resources Forum, 29(2):120–134, 2005.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex One of the most important endemic tree species of Chile and at the same time one of the most endangered ones is Araucaria araucana (Mol.) C. Koch, the monkey-puzzle tree. It grows in the Andes Mountains, homeland of the indigenous Mapuche Pewenche people who depend on this tree. This paper is based on field research that investigated the ecological knowledge, uses and management of the Araucaria araucana forest by indigenous Mapuche Pewenche people based on the sociocultural, spiritual and ecological relationships they have with the Araucaria forest, to find out how indigenous people and their knowledge could contribute to sustainable Araucaria forest management. A Mapuche Pewenche community located in the IX region of Chile contributed to this study. Based on the analyses this paper illustrates the nature of indigenous ecological knowledge of Araucaria araucana on the one hand, and its utility in native forest management on the other. The research shows that the Mapuche Pewenche hold ecological knowledge and conduct practices to manage their Araucaria forest in a balanced way. They conserve and use forest biodiversity at one and the same time. This paper provides recommendations for sustainable Araucaria forest management and conservation strategies ex-situ and in-situ incorporating indigenous knowledge and scientific knowledge and for promoting a collaborative natural resources management.
@article{herrmann_knowledge_2005,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Knowledge, values, uses and management of the {Araucaria} araucana forest by the {Indigenous} {Mapuche} {Pewenche} people: a basis for collaborative natural resource management in {Southern} {Chile}},
volume = {29},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1477-8947.2005.00121.x},
doi = {10.1111/j.1477-8947.2005.00121.x},
abstract = {One of the most important endemic tree species of Chile and at the same time one of the most endangered ones is Araucaria araucana (Mol.) C. Koch, the monkey-puzzle tree. It grows in the Andes Mountains, homeland of the indigenous Mapuche Pewenche people who depend on this tree. This paper is based on field research that investigated the ecological knowledge, uses and management of the Araucaria araucana forest by indigenous Mapuche Pewenche people based on the sociocultural, spiritual and ecological relationships they have with the Araucaria forest, to find out how indigenous people and their knowledge could contribute to sustainable Araucaria forest management. A Mapuche Pewenche community located in the IX region of Chile contributed to this study. Based on the analyses this paper illustrates the nature of indigenous ecological knowledge of Araucaria araucana on the one hand, and its utility in native forest management on the other. The research shows that the Mapuche Pewenche hold ecological knowledge and conduct practices to manage their Araucaria forest in a balanced way. They conserve and use forest biodiversity at one and the same time. This paper provides recommendations for sustainable Araucaria forest management and conservation strategies ex-situ and in-situ incorporating indigenous knowledge and scientific knowledge and for promoting a collaborative natural resources management.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Natural Resources Forum},
author = {HERRMANN, Thora},
year = {2005},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Chile},
pages = {120--134},
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}2004 (2)
Anxious reconciliation(s): unsettling foundations and spatializing history. BHANDAR, B. Environment and Planning D - Society and Space, 22(6):831–845, 2004.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex In this paper I explore the relationship between law, history, and reconciliation in the Canadian context. I argue that linear, teleological forms of history are employed by courts to continually reiterate the myth of a legitimate assertion of colonial sovereignty. By doing so, any potential for political transformation that lies in the objective of reconciliation is stunted; political challenges brought in the form of aboriginal rights claims are folded back into the existing political, economic, and juridical structures of the nation-state. I conclude with an examination of how spatializing history in a nonlinear, nonteleological way could open up possibilities for political change and transformation.
@article{bhandar_anxious_2004,
series = {North {America}},
title = {Anxious reconciliation(s): unsettling foundations and spatializing history},
volume = {22},
issn = {0263-7758, 1472-3433},
shorttitle = {Anxious {Reconciliation}(s)},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/d412},
doi = {10.1068/d412},
abstract = {In this paper I explore the relationship between law, history, and reconciliation in the Canadian context. I argue that linear, teleological forms of history are employed by courts to continually reiterate the myth of a legitimate assertion of colonial sovereignty. By doing so, any potential for political transformation that lies in the objective of reconciliation is stunted; political challenges brought in the form of aboriginal rights claims are folded back into the existing political, economic, and juridical structures of the nation-state. I conclude with an examination of how spatializing history in a nonlinear, nonteleological way could open up possibilities for political change and transformation.},
language = {en},
number = {6},
urldate = {2023-12-02},
journal = {Environment and Planning D - Society and Space},
author = {BHANDAR, Brenna},
year = {2004},
keywords = {Region: North America, Language: English, Country: Canada},
pages = {831--845},
file = {Bhandar - 2004 - Anxious Reconciliation(s) Unsettling Foundations .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/LRFWL999/Bhandar - 2004 - Anxious Reconciliation(s) Unsettling Foundations .pdf:application/pdf},
}Ladino and Q’eqchí Maya land use and land clearing in the Sierra de Lacandón National Park, Petén, Guatemala. CARR, D. Agriculture and Human Values, 21(2-3):171–179, 2004.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This paper examines potential differences in land use between Q'eqchí Maya and Ladino (Spanish speakers of mixed ancestry) farmers in a remote agricultural frontier in northern Petén, Guatemala. The research site, the Sierra de Lacandón National Park (SLNP), is a core conservation zone of Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR). In recent years, much has been written about the dramatic process of colonization and deforestation in Petén, Guatemala's largest and northernmost department. Since the early 1980s a rapid rural transformation has occurred where once remote forested regions have been colonized by small farmers, and lands have been converted to maize fields and cattle pastures. Consequently, less than half of the original forest cover in the department remains. Although approximately half of Petén's rural settlers have been Q'eqchí Maya, their land use, and its subsequent impact on Petenero forests, has been little studied. Results suggest that despite heterogeneous land use systems in migrant origin areas, given similar physical and socio-economic conditions following settlement in this remote frontier, Q'eqchí and Ladino farmer land use is remarkably similar. Only a modest land use difference appears to exist between the two groups: Q'eqchí Maya appear to have more extensive swidden maize rotations while Ladinos dedicate more land to pasture.
@article{carr_ladino_2004,
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title = {Ladino and {Q}’eqchí {Maya} land use and land clearing in the {Sierra} de {Lacandón} {National} {Park}, {Petén}, {Guatemala}},
volume = {21},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:AHUM.0000029397.69419.11},
doi = {10.1023/B:AHUM.0000029397.69419.11},
abstract = {This paper examines potential differences in land use between Q'eqchí Maya and Ladino (Spanish speakers of mixed ancestry) farmers in a remote agricultural frontier in northern Petén, Guatemala. The research site, the Sierra de Lacandón National Park (SLNP), is a core conservation zone of Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR). In recent years, much has been written about the dramatic process of colonization and deforestation in Petén, Guatemala's largest and northernmost department. Since the early 1980s a rapid rural transformation has occurred where once remote forested regions have been colonized by small farmers, and lands have been converted to maize fields and cattle pastures. Consequently, less than half of the original forest cover in the department remains. Although approximately half of Petén's rural settlers have been Q'eqchí Maya, their land use, and its subsequent impact on Petenero forests, has been little studied. Results suggest that despite heterogeneous land use systems in migrant origin areas, given similar physical and socio-economic conditions following settlement in this remote frontier, Q'eqchí and Ladino farmer land use is remarkably similar. Only a modest land use difference appears to exist between the two groups: Q'eqchí Maya appear to have more extensive swidden maize rotations while Ladinos dedicate more land to pasture.},
language = {en},
number = {2-3},
journal = {Agriculture and Human Values},
author = {CARR, David},
year = {2004},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Guatemala},
pages = {171--179},
file = {CARR - 2004 - Ladino and Q’eqchí Maya land use and land clearing.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/XFZ7QBDJ/CARR - 2004 - Ladino and Q’eqchí Maya land use and land clearing.pdf:application/pdf},
}2003 (2)
(Post)Colonial encounters: gendered racialisations in Australian courtrooms. SHAW, W. Gender, Place and Culture, 10(4):315–332, 2003.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex This article identifies how the Australian legal system has generated knowledge about ‘traditional’ gender relations in Aboriginal Australia. Using a sample of artefact cases from the Australian judicial system, constructions of Aboriginal gender relations are mapped. By tracing knowledge production in these cases, it demonstrates how the non-Aboriginal Australian legal system has fabricated its own versions of ‘Aboriginal Customary Laws’, or Aboriginal ‘traditions’ about violence committed by Aboriginal men, against Aboriginal women. (Post)colonial understandings about the Aboriginal ‘other’ have occupied spaces in legal understandings and then been enforced in law. The Australian judicial system itself is therefore guilty of perpetuating and privileging the ‘colonial’ in these encounters.
@article{shaw_postcolonial_2003,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {({Post}){Colonial} encounters: gendered racialisations in {Australian} courtrooms},
volume = {10},
issn = {0966-369X, 1360-0524},
shorttitle = {({Post}){Colonial} [1] {Encounters}},
url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369032000153296},
doi = {10.1080/0966369032000153296},
abstract = {This article identifies how the Australian legal system has generated knowledge about ‘traditional’ gender relations in Aboriginal Australia. Using a sample of artefact cases from the Australian judicial system, constructions of Aboriginal gender relations are mapped. By tracing knowledge production in these cases, it demonstrates how the non-Aboriginal Australian legal system has fabricated its own versions of ‘Aboriginal Customary Laws’, or Aboriginal ‘traditions’ about violence committed by Aboriginal men, against Aboriginal women. (Post)colonial understandings about the Aboriginal ‘other’ have occupied spaces in legal understandings and then been enforced in law. The Australian judicial system itself is therefore guilty of perpetuating and privileging the ‘colonial’ in these encounters.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
urldate = {2021-09-28},
journal = {Gender, Place and Culture},
author = {SHAW, Wendy},
year = {2003},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {315--332},
file = {Shaw - 2003 - (Post)Colonial [1] Encounters gendered racialisat.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/M65A3DD8/Shaw - 2003 - (Post)Colonial [1] Encounters gendered racialisat.pdf:application/pdf},
}The geography of Indigenous identity in the United States. COMENETZ, J. Espace Populations Sociétés, 2003/1:77–88, 2003.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex In the 2000 census, Americans were allowed to choose more than one "racial" group for the first time. Indigenous people had a higher rate of multiracial identification than other population groups. The larger number of people who identify as partly indigenous, along with the reduction in the level of undercount compared with the 1990 census, means that the total enumerated indigenous or partly indigenous population in 2000 was more than twice the size of the reported population in 1990. The intensity of indigenous identification among American Indians (measured by the share of indigenous people who claim a single racial identity) varied geographically, with higher levels on and near reservations and in western states. The core (one-race) population was much more spatially clustered than the peripheral (multi-race) population.
@article{comenetz_geography_2003,
series = {North {America}},
title = {The geography of {Indigenous} identity in the {United} {States}},
volume = {2003/1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3406/espos.2003.2065},
doi = {10.3406/espos.2003.2065},
abstract = {In the 2000 census, Americans were allowed to choose more than one "racial" group for the first time. Indigenous people had a higher rate of multiracial identification than other population groups. The larger number of people who identify as partly indigenous, along with the reduction in the level of undercount compared with the 1990 census, means that the total enumerated indigenous or partly indigenous population in 2000 was more than twice the size of the reported population in 1990. The intensity of indigenous identification among American Indians (measured by the share of indigenous people who claim a single racial identity) varied geographically, with higher levels on and near reservations and in western states. The core (one-race) population was much more spatially clustered than the peripheral (multi-race) population.},
language = {en},
journal = {Espace Populations Sociétés},
author = {COMENETZ, Joshua},
year = {2003},
keywords = {Region: North America, Language: English, Country: USA},
pages = {77--88},
file = {COMENETZ - 2003 - The geography of Indigenous identity in the United.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/5T849PHD/COMENETZ - 2003 - The geography of Indigenous identity in the United.pdf:application/pdf},
}2002 (1)
Two years after Hurricane ‘Mix’: indigenous response in the rain forest of Eastern Honduras. McSWEENEY, K. Focus on Geography, 46(4):15–21, 2002.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex NOT AVAILABLE
@article{mcsweeney_two_2002,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Two years after {Hurricane} ‘{Mix}’: indigenous response in the rain forest of {Eastern} {Honduras}},
volume = {46},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-8535.2002.tb00022.x},
doi = {10.1111/j.1949-8535.2002.tb00022.x},
abstract = {NOT AVAILABLE},
language = {en},
number = {4},
journal = {Focus on Geography},
author = {McSWEENEY, Kendra},
year = {2002},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Honduras},
pages = {15--21},
file = {McSweeney_IndigenousResponseToHurricaneInHonduras.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/3DF922PU/McSweeney_IndigenousResponseToHurricaneInHonduras.pdf:application/pdf},
}2001 (2)
Out of sight, out of mind, out of power: leprosy, race and colonization in Hawai’i. HERMAN, R. D. K. Journal of Historical Geography, 27(3):319–337, 2001.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Leprosy policies in late nineteenth-century Hawai‘i reflect and embody the mobilization of racial discourses to disempower Hawaiians. These discourses began with early missionary assessments of the causes for disease and depopulation among Hawaiians, but became more focused as white commercial interests needed control of land and power for the booming plantation industry. The isolation of ‘lepers’ to Kalaupapa peninsula occurred at the same time that white business interests were steadily taking over the Hawaiian government, culminating in the overthrow of the Queen Lili‘uokalani in 1893. An analysis of historical materials concerning leprosy during this time reveals the intertwining of leprosy policies and colonization.
@article{herman_out_2001,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Out of sight, out of mind, out of power: leprosy, race and colonization in {Hawai}’i},
volume = {27},
issn = {03057488},
shorttitle = {Out of sight, out of mind, out of power},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0305748801903251},
doi = {10.1006/jhge.2001.0325},
abstract = {Leprosy policies in late nineteenth-century Hawai‘i reflect and embody the mobilization of racial discourses to disempower Hawaiians. These discourses began with early missionary assessments of the causes for disease and depopulation among Hawaiians, but became more focused as white commercial interests needed control of land and power for the booming plantation industry. The isolation of ‘lepers’ to Kalaupapa peninsula occurred at the same time that white business interests were steadily taking over the Hawaiian government, culminating in the overthrow of the Queen Lili‘uokalani in 1893. An analysis of historical materials concerning leprosy during this time reveals the intertwining of leprosy policies and colonization.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2024-03-24},
journal = {Journal of Historical Geography},
author = {HERMAN, R. Douglas K.},
year = {2001},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: USA-Hawai'i},
pages = {319--337},
file = {Herman - 2001 - Out of sight, out of mind, out of power leprosy, .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/E5U53SNP/Herman - 2001 - Out of sight, out of mind, out of power leprosy, .pdf:application/pdf},
}Representations of rurality: is Foxwood Casino Resort threatening the quality of life in southeastern Connecticut?. D'HAUTESERRE, A. Tourism Geographies, 3(4):405–429, 2001.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex The paper will examine the dimensions of rurality in southeastern Connecticut to understand whether the area is truly threatened by the continued existence of Foxwoods Casino Resort (a major tourist attraction), as the white residents of the area assert. Antagonism towards the casino and its alleged environmental threats are a response to the new economic muscle of the Pequots, owners of Foxwoods, who should have ‘disappeared’ following the Pequot War of 1637. The paper will demonstrate that the non-Indian residents of southeastern Connecticut appreciate only an abstract aesthetic notion of ‘rural’ and that they are using this ‘quality of life’ narrative in an attempt to recover control over all land use in the region.
@article{dhauteserre_representations_2001,
series = {North {America}},
title = {Representations of rurality: is {Foxwood} {Casino} {Resort} threatening the quality of life in southeastern {Connecticut}?},
volume = {3},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/146166800110070496},
doi = {10.1080/146166800110070496},
abstract = {The paper will examine the dimensions of rurality in southeastern Connecticut to understand whether the area is truly threatened by the continued existence of Foxwoods Casino Resort (a major tourist attraction), as the white residents of the area assert. Antagonism towards the casino and its alleged environmental threats are a response to the new economic muscle of the Pequots, owners of Foxwoods, who should have ‘disappeared’ following the Pequot War of 1637. The paper will demonstrate that the non-Indian residents of southeastern Connecticut appreciate only an abstract aesthetic notion of ‘rural’ and that they are using this ‘quality of life’ narrative in an attempt to recover control over all land use in the region.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
journal = {Tourism Geographies},
author = {D'HAUTESERRE, Anne-Marie},
year = {2001},
keywords = {Region: North America, Language: English, Country: USA},
pages = {405--429},
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}2000 (1)
Beyond deforestation: the social context of forest change in two Indigenous communities in Highland Mexico. KLOOSTER, D. Yearbook. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 26:47–59, 2000.
Paper abstract bibtex
Paper abstract bibtex Narratives of environmental change can overwhelm analysis and interpretation. "Deforestation," for example, usually communicates a unilinear process of agricultural expansion and biomass mining. Using participant observation, aerial photographs, and forest inventories, this article analyzes the social context of forest change in two neighboring indigenous communities in the Lake Patzcuaro Basin, central western Mexico. Deforestation statistics and drastic deficits between fuel wood demand and growth rates suggest severe environmental degradation in this region and in these communities, but case study results show an increase in tree cover and unexpected changes to forest composition. These are related to agricultural abandonment and the ecological effect of selective woodcutting.
@article{klooster_beyond_2000,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Beyond deforestation: the social context of forest change in two {Indigenous} communities in {Highland} {Mexico}},
volume = {26},
url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/25765886},
abstract = {Narratives of environmental change can overwhelm analysis and interpretation. "Deforestation," for example, usually communicates a unilinear process of agricultural expansion and biomass mining. Using participant observation, aerial photographs, and forest inventories, this article analyzes the social context of forest change in two neighboring indigenous communities in the Lake Patzcuaro Basin, central western Mexico. Deforestation statistics and drastic deficits between fuel wood demand and growth rates suggest severe environmental degradation in this region and in these communities, but case study results show an increase in tree cover and unexpected changes to forest composition. These are related to agricultural abandonment and the ecological effect of selective woodcutting.},
language = {en},
journal = {Yearbook. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers},
author = {KLOOSTER, Daniel},
year = {2000},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Mexico},
pages = {47--59},
file = {KLOOSTER - 2000 - Beyond deforestation the social context of forest.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/WBSMXLML/KLOOSTER - 2000 - Beyond deforestation the social context of forest.pdf:application/pdf},
}1997 (1)
For whom the nation? Internationalization, zapatismo, and the struggle over Mexican modernity. HILBERT, S. Antipode, 29(2):115–148, 1997.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Recent literature on interactions arising between capital forces and local communities has tended to equate “the global” with economic globalization and “the local” as a more or less reactive formation. Less attention is paid to the fact that processes very particular to a locale are crucial mediators between global and local scales. Perhaps the most salient of these is the production of national ideology. This paper examines Mexico in the 1990s and explores the way leaders wove articulations of modernity through reproductions of nationalism to exclude those—poor, largely rural and indigenous—who didn't fit the picture of progress, then looks at how several indigenous communities contested these elite notions, demanding equal access as citizens of Mexico, and radically altered the public view of elite notions of progress.
@article{hilbert_for_1997,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {For whom the nation? {Internationalization}, zapatismo, and the struggle over {Mexican} modernity},
volume = {29},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8330.00039},
doi = {10.1111/1467-8330.00039},
abstract = {Recent literature on interactions arising between capital forces and local communities has tended to equate “the global” with economic globalization and “the local” as a more or less reactive formation. Less attention is paid to the fact that processes very particular to a locale are crucial mediators between global and local scales. Perhaps the most salient of these is the production of national ideology. This paper examines Mexico in the 1990s and explores the way leaders wove articulations of modernity through reproductions of nationalism to exclude those—poor, largely rural and indigenous—who didn't fit the picture of progress, then looks at how several indigenous communities contested these elite notions, demanding equal access as citizens of Mexico, and radically altered the public view of elite notions of progress.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Antipode},
author = {HILBERT, Sarah},
year = {1997},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Mexico},
pages = {115--148},
file = {Hilbert - For Whom the Nation Internationalization, Zapatis.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/FB83Z2R8/Hilbert - For Whom the Nation Internationalization, Zapatis.pdf:application/pdf},
}1996 (4)
Nurturing culture through country: resource management strategies and aspirations of local landowning families at Napranum. SUCHET-PEARSON, S. Australian Geographical Studies, 34(2):200–215, 1996.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex In the context of generations of living in the ‘long and terrible shadow’ (Berger, 1991) cast by hostile political structures, mission influences and industrial resource management systems, the culture and identities of the local Aboriginal landowning families of the Weipa area have survived. These families actively nurture their culture through the development of resource management strategies. Local landowners' experiences of colonisation and the ways in which they sense their history and geography are explored and various cultural maintenance and transmission practices centred on country and resources are described. Active engagement with wider scale processes is contributing to more effective outcomes for the landowning families.
@article{suchet-pearson_nurturing_1996,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Nurturing culture through country: resource management strategies and aspirations of local landowning families at {Napranum}},
volume = {34},
issn = {0004-9190, 1467-8470},
shorttitle = {{\textless}b{\textgreater}{Nurturing} {Culture} {Through} {Country}},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8470.1996.tb00116.x},
doi = {10.1111/j.1467-8470.1996.tb00116.x},
abstract = {In the context of generations of living in the ‘long and terrible shadow’ (Berger, 1991) cast by hostile political structures, mission influences and industrial resource management systems, the culture and identities of the local Aboriginal landowning families of the Weipa area have survived. These families actively nurture their culture through the development of resource management strategies. Local landowners' experiences of colonisation and the ways in which they sense their history and geography are explored and various cultural maintenance and transmission practices centred on country and resources are described. Active engagement with wider scale processes is contributing to more effective outcomes for the landowning families.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2023-11-09},
journal = {Australian Geographical Studies},
author = {SUCHET-PEARSON, Sandra},
year = {1996},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {200--215},
file = {Suchet - 1996 - Nurturing Culture Through Country Resource Man.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/E9V7I5RH/Suchet - 1996 - Nurturing Culture Through Country Resource Man.pdf:application/pdf},
}Between Orellana and Acuña: a lost century in the history of the North-West Amazon. NEWSON, L. Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Etudes Andines, 25(2):203–231, 1996.
Paper abstract bibtex
Paper abstract bibtex This study reviews the history of the Napo Valley between 1580 and 1636. Between these dates major changes occurred in the character, size and distribution of native groups. It has generally been assumed that Spanish contacts in this region were limited, but documentary evidence from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville and from the Jesuit archive in Rome indicates that between 1580 to 1636 several expeditions were mounted into Coca, Aguarico, and Napo valleys, and some may even have penetrated the Amazon. The most notable were the expeditions commissioned by Alonso de Miranda between 1618 and 1622. The documentary evidence provides new information on native groups in the Napo Valley, especially the Omagua, and also shows that as late as the early seventeenth century substantial populations still inhabited the headwaters of the Upper Amazon. However, they suffered a marked decline as a result of the expeditions and slave raids conducted between 1618 and 1622.
@article{newson_between_1996,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Between {Orellana} and {Acuña}: a lost century in the history of the {North}-{West} {Amazon}},
volume = {25},
url = {https://www.persee.fr/doc/bifea_0303-7495_1996_num_25_2_1230},
abstract = {This study reviews the history of the Napo Valley between 1580 and 1636. Between these dates major changes occurred in the character, size and distribution of native groups. It has generally been assumed that Spanish contacts in this region were limited, but documentary evidence from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville and from the Jesuit archive in Rome indicates that between 1580 to 1636 several expeditions were mounted into Coca, Aguarico, and Napo valleys, and some may even have penetrated the Amazon. The most notable were the expeditions commissioned by Alonso de Miranda between 1618 and 1622. The documentary evidence provides new information on native groups in the Napo Valley, especially the Omagua, and also shows that as late as the early seventeenth century substantial populations still inhabited the headwaters of the Upper Amazon. However, they suffered a marked decline as a result of the expeditions and slave raids conducted between 1618 and 1622.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Etudes Andines},
author = {NEWSON, Linda},
year = {1996},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Ecuador, Country: Peru},
pages = {203--231},
file = {Newson_HistoryOfNorthWestAmazon.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/CWA2ZBCI/Newson_HistoryOfNorthWestAmazon.pdf:application/pdf},
}Claiming territory: the Saami Assemblies as ethno-political institutions. KORSMO, F. Polar Geography, 20(3):163–179, 1996.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex A political scientist explores the process leading to the establishment of Saami Assemblies in Sweden, Norway, and Finland and reviews claims advanced through these assemblies for rights to land and natural resources in the northern regions of those countries. Initial sections examine reasons for variations in the relative status of each country's Assembly, followed by an assessment of the Assemblies’ efforts to enhance ethnic identity and cultural rights. A major argument of the paper is that the Assemblies’ lack of an identified land base has provided both an impetus and a means for Saami to pursue their territorial aspirations.
@article{korsmo_claiming_1996,
series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {Claiming territory: the {Saami} {Assemblies} as ethno-political institutions},
volume = {20},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/10889379609377598},
doi = {10.1080/10889379609377598},
abstract = {A political scientist explores the process leading to the establishment of Saami Assemblies in Sweden, Norway, and Finland and reviews claims advanced through these assemblies for rights to land and natural resources in the northern regions of those countries. Initial sections examine reasons for variations in the relative status of each country's Assembly, followed by an assessment of the Assemblies’ efforts to enhance ethnic identity and cultural rights. A major argument of the paper is that the Assemblies’ lack of an identified land base has provided both an impetus and a means for Saami to pursue their territorial aspirations.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
journal = {Polar Geography},
author = {KORSMO, Fae},
year = {1996},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: Norway, Country: Finland, Country: Sweden, Topic: Land tenure},
pages = {163--179},
file = {KORSMO - 1996 - Claiming territory the Saami Assemblies as ethno-.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/QHZD3SPK/KORSMO - 1996 - Claiming territory the Saami Assemblies as ethno-.pdf:application/pdf},
}Folk house-types as indicators of tradition: the case of the Mopan Maya in Southern Belize. STEINBERG, M. Yearbook Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 22:87–92, 1996.
Paper abstract bibtex
Paper abstract bibtex It is often assumed that indigenous folk house-types are indicators of traditional cultural patterns. Indigenous villages that are dominated by folk structures are generally thought to maintain many traditional culture traits in contrast to villages that are dominated by modern, national-culture house-types. These modern looking villages appear to have exchanged their indigenous heritage for the culture of the developed world. However, in southern Belize, field work in three Mopan Maya villages contradicts these assumptions. My research found little correlation between house-types and various other aspects of indigenous culture. This paper discusses cultural circumstances that argue against the assumption that traditional housing can be correlated with traditional cultures. Se supone a menudo que las viviendas indígenas típicas constituyen un indicador de estructuras culturales tradicionales. Se considera normalmente que los poblados indígenas en que predominan las construcciones tradicionales mantienen numerosos rasgos culturales de carácter ancestral en oposición a aquellos en que abundan las viviendas de tipo moderno y nacional. Estos poblados de apariencia moderna parecen haber cambiado su herencia indígena por la cultura del mundo desarrollado. Sin embargo, en el Belize meridional, las investigaciones de campo en tres poblados mayas de Mopan contradicen estas suposiciones. En mis propias investigaciones, apenas encontré correlación entre el tipo de vivienda y otros aspectos de la cultura indígena. En este trabajo se discuten las circunstancias culturales que constituyen factores en contra de una supuesta correlación entre vivienda y cultura.
@article{steinberg_folk_1996,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Folk house-types as indicators of tradition: the case of the {Mopan} {Maya} in {Southern} {Belize}},
volume = {22},
url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/25765831},
abstract = {It is often assumed that indigenous folk house-types are indicators of traditional cultural patterns. Indigenous villages that are dominated by folk structures are generally thought to maintain many traditional culture traits in contrast to villages that are dominated by modern, national-culture house-types. These modern looking villages appear to have exchanged their indigenous heritage for the culture of the developed world. However, in southern Belize, field work in three Mopan Maya villages contradicts these assumptions. My research found little correlation between house-types and various other aspects of indigenous culture. This paper discusses cultural circumstances that argue against the assumption that traditional housing can be correlated with traditional cultures. Se supone a menudo que las viviendas indígenas típicas constituyen un indicador de estructuras culturales tradicionales. Se considera normalmente que los poblados indígenas en que predominan las construcciones tradicionales mantienen numerosos rasgos culturales de carácter ancestral en oposición a aquellos en que abundan las viviendas de tipo moderno y nacional. Estos poblados de apariencia moderna parecen haber cambiado su herencia indígena por la cultura del mundo desarrollado. Sin embargo, en el Belize meridional, las investigaciones de campo en tres poblados mayas de Mopan contradicen estas suposiciones. En mis propias investigaciones, apenas encontré correlación entre el tipo de vivienda y otros aspectos de la cultura indígena. En este trabajo se discuten las circunstancias culturales que constituyen factores en contra de una supuesta correlación entre vivienda y cultura.},
language = {en},
journal = {Yearbook Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers},
author = {STEINBERG, Michael},
year = {1996},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Belize},
pages = {87--92},
file = {STEINBERG - 1996 - Folk house-types as indicators of tradition the c.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/QNTZCEI4/STEINBERG - 1996 - Folk house-types as indicators of tradition the c.pdf:application/pdf},
}1995 (1)
Indigenous political and property rights and economic/environmental reform in Northwest Siberia. OSHERENKO, G. Post-Soviet Geography, 36(4):225–237, 1995.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex An American specialist on environmental law with extensive field experience in the Russian Arctic outlines changes affecting land tenure relationships and traditional economies of northern peoples as a result of oil and gas development. Particuler emphasis is placed on the Yamal Peninsula, where economic transition, natural gas extraction, and pipeline construction are disrupting reindeer-herding operations based on large-scale seasonal migration within extensive sovkhozy. the author presents several possble variants for the transfer of land rights from state farm ownership to private or cooperative entities and describes the implications of each (based on the experience in Alaska and Canada) for retention of indigenous culture and sustainable resource development.
@article{osherenko_indigenous_1995,
series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {Indigenous political and property rights and economic/environmental reform in {Northwest} {Siberia}},
volume = {36},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640990},
doi = {10.1080/10605851.1995.10640990},
abstract = {An American specialist on environmental law with extensive field experience in the Russian Arctic outlines changes affecting land tenure relationships and traditional economies of northern peoples as a result of oil and gas development. Particuler emphasis is placed on the Yamal Peninsula, where economic transition, natural gas extraction, and pipeline construction are disrupting reindeer-herding operations based on large-scale seasonal migration within extensive sovkhozy. the author presents several possble variants for the transfer of land rights from state farm ownership to private or cooperative entities and describes the implications of each (based on the experience in Alaska and Canada) for retention of indigenous culture and sustainable resource development.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
journal = {Post-Soviet Geography},
author = {OSHERENKO, Gail},
year = {1995},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: Russia},
pages = {225--237},
}1994 (1)
Tourism development and Indigenous people: the Maya experience in Southern Belize. STEINBERG, M. Focus on Geography, 44(2):17–20, 1994.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex NOT AVAILABLE
@article{steinberg_tourism_1994,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Tourism development and {Indigenous} people: the {Maya} experience in {Southern} {Belize}},
volume = {44},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-8535.1994.tb00080.x},
doi = {10.1111/j.1949-8535.1994.tb00080.x},
abstract = {NOT AVAILABLE},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Focus on Geography},
author = {STEINBERG, Michael},
year = {1994},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Belize},
pages = {17--20},
file = {STEINBERG - 1994 - Tourism development and Indigenous people the May.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/Z52EQCNB/STEINBERG - 1994 - Tourism development and Indigenous people the May.pdf:application/pdf},
}1993 (2)
The variations of a land use pattern: seasonal movements and cultural change among the Copper Inuit. COLLIGNON, B. Études/Inuit/Studies, 17(1):71–89, 1993.
Paper abstract bibtex
Paper abstract bibtex The Copper Inuit have demonstrated their ability to adapt to new conditions a number of times during the 20th century. They have developed an elaborate practice of using their territory on the basis of seasonal alternance. Their land use pattern has changed at least four times during this century, but the underlying principle has remained the same up to the late 1970' s. Since then, the Copper Inuit, particularly younger generations, have ceased to build up their identity on the relation to the land, a land they live on less and less year after year. This geographical approach is an attempt to question the nature of modern Inuit society. Is this society only one more stage in the evolution of an old culture, or is it a transitional step towards a new Arctic culture? This concept appears more promising than the concept of acculturation to grasp the nature of contemporary Inuit society and to look for solutions to the many problems this society is today struggling with.
@article{collignon_variations_1993,
series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {The variations of a land use pattern: seasonal movements and cultural change among the {Copper} {Inuit}},
volume = {17},
url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/42869860},
abstract = {The Copper Inuit have demonstrated their ability to adapt to new conditions a number of times during the 20th century. They have developed an elaborate practice of using their territory on the basis of seasonal alternance. Their land use pattern has changed at least four times during this century, but the underlying principle has remained the same up to the late 1970' s. Since then, the Copper Inuit, particularly younger generations, have ceased to build up their identity on the relation to the land, a land they live on less and less year after year. This geographical approach is an attempt to question the nature of modern Inuit society. Is this society only one more stage in the evolution of an old culture, or is it a transitional step towards a new Arctic culture? This concept appears more promising than the concept of acculturation to grasp the nature of contemporary Inuit society and to look for solutions to the many problems this society is today struggling with.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
journal = {Études/Inuit/Studies},
author = {COLLIGNON, Béatrice},
year = {1993},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: Canada},
pages = {71--89},
file = {COLLIGNON - 1993 - The variations of a land use pattern seasonal mov.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/YZYA5RSI/COLLIGNON - 1993 - The variations of a land use pattern seasonal mov.pdf:application/pdf},
}Ecotourism and Indigenous peoples in the resource frontier of the Ecuadorian Amazon. WESCHE, R. Yearbook. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 19:35–45, 1993.
Paper abstract bibtex
Paper abstract bibtex Studies of indigenous involvement in Third World ecotourism have focused on tourism impact and highlighted negative effects. This paper examines the implications of the resource frontier context for indigenous participation in Third World ecotourism using a case study of Napo Province in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The transformation of indigenous societies under the impact of resource frontier expansion, insertion into the ecotourism industry and the beginnings of indigenous controlled ecotourism are traced. The advantages of indigenous controlled ecotourism as an appropriate adaptive strategy under resource frontier conditions are demonstrated. Estudios de participación en ecoturismo por pueblos indígenas del Tercer Mundo se han concentrado hasta el momento en los impactos ambientales de turismo y enfatizaron los aspectos negativos. El presente estudio de caso de la Provincia del Napo en Ecuador examina las implicaciones de participación de poblaciones indígenas en ecoturismo en el contexto de una frontera de explotación de recursos naturales. Se trazan la transformación de sociedades indígenas bajo el impacto de la expansión de fronteras de explotación de recursos naturales, la inserción en el ecoturismo, y la génesis de un ecoturismo controlado por los indígenas mismos. Finalmente, el estudio demustra los beneficios de ecoturismo controlado por los pueblos indígenas como una estrategia apropiada para las condiciones de una frontera de explotación de recursos naturales.
@article{wesche_ecotourism_1993,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Ecotourism and {Indigenous} peoples in the resource frontier of the {Ecuadorian} {Amazon}},
volume = {19},
url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/25765783},
abstract = {Studies of indigenous involvement in Third World ecotourism have focused on tourism impact and highlighted negative effects. This paper examines the implications of the resource frontier context for indigenous participation in Third World ecotourism using a case study of Napo Province in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The transformation of indigenous societies under the impact of resource frontier expansion, insertion into the ecotourism industry and the beginnings of indigenous controlled ecotourism are traced. The advantages of indigenous controlled ecotourism as an appropriate adaptive strategy under resource frontier conditions are demonstrated. Estudios de participación en ecoturismo por pueblos indígenas del Tercer Mundo se han concentrado hasta el momento en los impactos ambientales de turismo y enfatizaron los aspectos negativos. El presente estudio de caso de la Provincia del Napo en Ecuador examina las implicaciones de participación de poblaciones indígenas en ecoturismo en el contexto de una frontera de explotación de recursos naturales. Se trazan la transformación de sociedades indígenas bajo el impacto de la expansión de fronteras de explotación de recursos naturales, la inserción en el ecoturismo, y la génesis de un ecoturismo controlado por los indígenas mismos. Finalmente, el estudio demustra los beneficios de ecoturismo controlado por los pueblos indígenas como una estrategia apropiada para las condiciones de una frontera de explotación de recursos naturales.},
language = {en},
journal = {Yearbook. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers},
author = {WESCHE, Rolf},
year = {1993},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Ecuador, Topic: Tourism},
pages = {35--45},
file = {WESCHE - 1993 - Ecotourism and Indigenous peoples in the resource .pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/H2X6HIIW/WESCHE - 1993 - Ecotourism and Indigenous peoples in the resource .pdf:application/pdf},
}1992 (1)
Spanish colonization and Indian property in central Mexico, 1521-1620. PREM, H. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 82(3):444–459, 1992.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex After the conquest of Mexico (1519-21), the Spaniards coopted Indian administrative structures, allowing the King and the new Colonial government to exploit traditional regional revenues. Key participants of the military campaigns were rewarded with rights to the tribute and limited labor conscription (encomienda) required of the indigenous population in a particular district. Legally, encomienda did not confer property rights, but holders of the privilege also received most of the earliest land grants and had the advantage of conscript labor during the planting and harvest seasons. As the encomienda system was gradually reformed and phased out, agriculture and stockraising became the major source of rural income for increasing numbers of Spanish settlers. Public land was overwhelmingly awarded to officials, the military, and the Colonial elite. Following the failure of the Puebla experiment (1531-34), designed to create a new class of farmers with small holdings, agricultural work was relegated to Indian labor. Property became the focus of competition between Spaniard and Indian, ending with partial dispossession of Indian lands by the early 1600s. The granting of lands (mercedes) is explicated by three examples: the Basin of Mexico, the district northwest of Puebla, and the Valley of Toluca. Archival documentation of land grants provides a powerful tool to decipher regional settlement histories and to examine the degree to which the Spanish legal system safeguarded Indian property rights. Spanish agricultural expansion was made possible by the Indian demographic collapse, as a result of recurrent epidemics, and was facilitated by Indian settlement amalgamation (congregacion). While the processes and temporal patterns of property transfer show structural similarities in the heart of Central Mexico, settlement histories in peripheral areas are unique. The means by which Indian communities slowed Spanish expansion are discussed. The pattern of dispossession of the Indian was established during the first hundred years, setting in motion a process that culminated with the powerful haciendas of the nineteenth century.
@article{prem_spanish_1992,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Spanish colonization and {Indian} property in central {Mexico}, 1521-1620},
volume = {82},
url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/2563355},
doi = {10.1111/j.1467-8306.1992.tb01969.x},
abstract = {After the conquest of Mexico (1519-21), the Spaniards coopted Indian administrative structures, allowing the King and the new Colonial government to exploit traditional regional revenues. Key participants of the military campaigns were rewarded with rights to the tribute and limited labor conscription (encomienda) required of the indigenous population in a particular district. Legally, encomienda did not confer property rights, but holders of the privilege also received most of the earliest land grants and had the advantage of conscript labor during the planting and harvest seasons. As the encomienda system was gradually reformed and phased out, agriculture and stockraising became the major source of rural income for increasing numbers of Spanish settlers. Public land was overwhelmingly awarded to officials, the military, and the Colonial elite. Following the failure of the Puebla experiment (1531-34), designed to create a new class of farmers with small holdings, agricultural work was relegated to Indian labor. Property became the focus of competition between Spaniard and Indian, ending with partial dispossession of Indian lands by the early 1600s. The granting of lands (mercedes) is explicated by three examples: the Basin of Mexico, the district northwest of Puebla, and the Valley of Toluca. Archival documentation of land grants provides a powerful tool to decipher regional settlement histories and to examine the degree to which the Spanish legal system safeguarded Indian property rights. Spanish agricultural expansion was made possible by the Indian demographic collapse, as a result of recurrent epidemics, and was facilitated by Indian settlement amalgamation (congregacion). While the processes and temporal patterns of property transfer show structural similarities in the heart of Central Mexico, settlement histories in peripheral areas are unique. The means by which Indian communities slowed Spanish expansion are discussed. The pattern of dispossession of the Indian was established during the first hundred years, setting in motion a process that culminated with the powerful haciendas of the nineteenth century.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
journal = {Annals of the Association of American Geographers},
author = {PREM, Hanns},
year = {1992},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Mexico},
pages = {444--459},
file = {PREM - 1992 - Spanish colonization and Indian property in centra.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/UWSJFC4Z/PREM - 1992 - Spanish colonization and Indian property in centra.pdf:application/pdf},
}1990 (1)
Epidemiology of obesity in relationship to some chronic medical conditions among Inuit and Cree Indian populations in New Quebec, Canada. EKOE, J., THOUEZ, J., PETITCLERC, C., FOGGIN, P., & GHADIRIAN, P. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 10:S17–S27, 1990.
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series = {Arctic / {Subarctic}},
title = {Epidemiology of obesity in relationship to some chronic medical conditions among {Inuit} and {Cree} {Indian} populations in {New} {Quebec}, {Canada}},
volume = {10},
issn = {01688227},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/016882279090135G},
doi = {10.1016/0168-8227(90)90135-G},
abstract = {NOT AVAILABLE},
language = {en},
urldate = {2021-07-07},
journal = {Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice},
author = {EKOE, Jean-Marie and THOUEZ, Jean-Pierre and PETITCLERC, Claude and FOGGIN, Peter and GHADIRIAN, Parviz},
year = {1990},
keywords = {Region: Arctic / Subarctic, Language: English, Country: Canada},
pages = {S17--S27},
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}1984 (1)
Toward lndigeneous liberation: the Sandinistas and the Miskito of Northeastern Nicaragua. BALLARD, P. Antipode, 16(2):54–64, 1984.
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@article{ballard_toward_1984,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Toward lndigeneous liberation: the {Sandinistas} and the {Miskito} of {Northeastern} {Nicaragua}},
volume = {16},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8330.1984.tb00663.x},
doi = {10.1111/j.1467-8330.1984.tb00663.x},
abstract = {NOT AVAILABLE},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Antipode},
author = {BALLARD, Patricia},
year = {1984},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Nicaragua},
pages = {54--64},
file = {BALLARD - 1984 - Toward lndigeneous liberation the Sandinistas and.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/35RNBKQS/BALLARD - 1984 - Toward lndigeneous liberation the Sandinistas and.pdf:application/pdf},
}1983 (1)
Sociospatial aspects of Australian Aboriginal underdevelopment. Empirical evidence from the East kimberley. ROSS, H. & DRAKAKIS-SMITH, D. Geoforum, 14(3):325–332, 1983.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex Prior to the penetration of the European capitalist economy into central and northern Australia, the Aboriginal mode of production was one of hunting and gathering. Spiritual, economic and social relationships betwen people and land produced a spatial distribution of small bands of people living on their traditional lands. To the incoming white settlers the low population density and type of land use appeared uneconomic. This observation was used as ideological justification for the expropriation and development of the land for commercial pastoralism. This paper discusses the articulation of the Aboriginal and European modes of production in the East Kimberley region of northwest Australia. It argues that the introduced capitalist economy virtually destroyed the Aboriginal means of subsistence, incorporating Aborigines into the new mode of production within various subordinate roles. The exploitation of Aborigines, formerly as labour and now predominantely as consumers, is fundamental to the maintenance of the capitalist mode of production in pastoral areas. The spatial effects of the dominant mode of production have been to centralise Aborigines in locations suited to the various phases of development of the European economy, undermining the traditional Aboriginal social-spatial structure. The centralisation of the Aboriginal population also enhances the opportunities for the further development of the mining industry, which is in direct competition with Aboriginal interests in land. Aboriginal resistance to these spatial tendencies is intense in many quarters, but efforts to return to living on traditional lands and to develop alternative ways of living are hampered by the dominant mode of production.
@article{ross_sociospatial_1983,
series = {Oceania / {Pacific}},
title = {Sociospatial aspects of {Australian} {Aboriginal} underdevelopment. {Empirical} evidence from the {East} kimberley},
volume = {14},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0016718583900519},
doi = {10.1016/0016-7185(83)90051-9},
abstract = {Prior to the penetration of the European capitalist economy into central and northern Australia, the Aboriginal mode of production was one of hunting and gathering. Spiritual, economic and social relationships betwen people and land produced a spatial distribution of small bands of people living on their traditional lands. To the incoming white settlers the low population density and type of land use appeared uneconomic. This observation was used as ideological justification for the expropriation and development of the land for commercial pastoralism. This paper discusses the articulation of the Aboriginal and European modes of production in the East Kimberley region of northwest Australia. It argues that the introduced capitalist economy virtually destroyed the Aboriginal means of subsistence, incorporating Aborigines into the new mode of production within various subordinate roles. The exploitation of Aborigines, formerly as labour and now predominantely as consumers, is fundamental to the maintenance of the capitalist mode of production in pastoral areas. The spatial effects of the dominant mode of production have been to centralise Aborigines in locations suited to the various phases of development of the European economy, undermining the traditional Aboriginal social-spatial structure. The centralisation of the Aboriginal population also enhances the opportunities for the further development of the mining industry, which is in direct competition with Aboriginal interests in land. Aboriginal resistance to these spatial tendencies is intense in many quarters, but efforts to return to living on traditional lands and to develop alternative ways of living are hampered by the dominant mode of production.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
journal = {Geoforum},
author = {ROSS, Helen and DRAKAKIS-SMITH, David},
year = {1983},
keywords = {Region: Oceania / Pacific, Language: English, Country: Australia},
pages = {325--332},
file = {ROSS et DRAKAKIS-SMITH - 1983 - Sociospatial aspects of Australian Aboriginal unde.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/W4Z8N9CH/ROSS et DRAKAKIS-SMITH - 1983 - Sociospatial aspects of Australian Aboriginal unde.pdf:application/pdf},
}1982 (1)
The depopulation of Nicaragua in the Sixteenth-Century. NEWSON, L. Journal of Latin American Studies, 14(2):253–286, 1982.
Paper doi abstract bibtex
Paper doi abstract bibtex At the time of the Spanish conquest Nicaragua was inhabited by tribes and chiefdoms whose total population ran into hundreds of thousands: today only 4 per cent of the population is classified as Indian. With the exception of a short period in the eighteenth century, the Indian population has declined continuously since the sixteenth century, with the greatest losses being sustained during the first few decades of Spanish rule. Reconstructing the demographic history of Nicaragua is not an easy task since much of the documentary record has been lost as the result of natural disasters and political upheavals.
@article{newson_depopulation_1982,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {The depopulation of {Nicaragua} in the {Sixteenth}-{Century}},
volume = {14},
issn = {0022-216X, 1469-767X},
url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022216X00022422/type/journal_article},
doi = {10.1017/S0022216X00022422},
abstract = {At the time of the Spanish conquest Nicaragua was inhabited by tribes and chiefdoms whose total population ran into hundreds of thousands: today only 4 per cent of the population is classified as Indian. With the exception of a short period in the eighteenth century, the Indian population has declined continuously since the sixteenth century, with the greatest losses being sustained during the first few decades of Spanish rule. Reconstructing the demographic history of Nicaragua is not an easy task since much of the documentary record has been lost as the result of natural disasters and political upheavals.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2021-03-30},
journal = {Journal of Latin American Studies},
author = {NEWSON, Linda},
year = {1982},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Nicaragua},
pages = {253--286},
file = {Newson - 1982 - The Depopulation of Nicaragua in the Sixteenth Cen.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/JJ6QDYGA/Newson - 1982 - The Depopulation of Nicaragua in the Sixteenth Cen.pdf:application/pdf},
}1974 (1)
New thinking on the Peruvian highland peasantry. BERTRAM, G. Pacific Viewpoint, 15(2):89–110, 1974.
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series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {New thinking on the {Peruvian} highland peasantry},
volume = {15},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.152001},
doi = {10.1111/apv.152001},
abstract = {NOT AVAILABLE},
language = {en},
number = {2},
journal = {Pacific Viewpoint},
author = {BERTRAM, Geoff},
year = {1974},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Peru},
pages = {89--110},
file = {Bertram_PeruvianHighlandPeasantry.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/VZY2CRCJ/Bertram_PeruvianHighlandPeasantry.pdf:application/pdf},
}1971 (1)
The study of indigenous food production systems: mere subsistence or merrily subsisting?. NIETSCHMANN, B. Revista Geográfica, 74:83–99, 1971.
Paper abstract bibtex
Paper abstract bibtex Estudios recientes sugieren la necessidad de establecer medios para formular una nueva valoración de la productividad, estabilidad, adaptabilidad y capacidad de los sistemas de subsistencia. Tales estudios empiezan a proporcionar respuestas a la pregunta de si vivir a nivel de subsistencia significa trabajar arduamente para conseguirla, o si no es necesario trabajar tan intensamente.
@article{nietschmann_study_1971,
series = {Transregional},
title = {The study of indigenous food production systems: mere subsistence or merrily subsisting?},
volume = {74},
url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/40992134},
abstract = {Estudios recientes sugieren la necessidad de establecer medios para formular una nueva valoración de la productividad, estabilidad, adaptabilidad y capacidad de los sistemas de subsistencia. Tales estudios empiezan a proporcionar respuestas a la pregunta de si vivir a nivel de subsistencia significa trabajar arduamente para conseguirla, o si no es necesario trabajar tan intensamente.},
language = {en},
journal = {Revista Geográfica},
author = {NIETSCHMANN, Bernard},
year = {1971},
keywords = {Region: Transregional, Language: English},
pages = {83--99},
file = {Nietschmann - The Study of Indigenous Food Production Systems M.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/7K54IQI2/Nietschmann - The Study of Indigenous Food Production Systems M.pdf:application/pdf},
}1963 (1)
Indian economic life in Chiapas. WAGNER, P. Economic Geography, 39(2):156–164, 1963.
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series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Indian economic life in {Chiapas}},
volume = {39},
issn = {00130095},
url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/142508?origin=crossref},
doi = {10.2307/142508},
abstract = {NOT AVAILABLE},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2021-04-30},
journal = {Economic Geography},
author = {WAGNER, Philip},
year = {1963},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Mexico},
pages = {156--164},
file = {Wagner - 1963 - Indian Economic Life in Chiapas.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/A6V69LFY/Wagner - 1963 - Indian Economic Life in Chiapas.pdf:application/pdf},
}1947 (1)
Indians of Southeastern Colombia. ALLEN, P. The Geographical Review, 37(4):567–582, 1947.
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@article{allen_indians_1947,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {Indians of {Southeastern} {Colombia}},
volume = {37},
issn = {00167428},
url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/211186?origin=crossref},
doi = {10.2307/211186},
abstract = {NOT AVAILABLE},
language = {en},
number = {4},
urldate = {2021-04-27},
journal = {The Geographical Review},
author = {ALLEN, Paul},
year = {1947},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Colombia},
pages = {567--582},
file = {Allen - 1947 - Indians of Southeastern Colombia.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/V5RRIHJF/Allen - 1947 - Indians of Southeastern Colombia.pdf:application/pdf},
}1941 (1)
The personality of Mexico. SAUER, C. The Geographical Review, 31(3):353–364, 1941.
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@article{sauer_personality_1941,
series = {Latin {America} / {Caribbean}},
title = {The personality of {Mexico}},
volume = {31},
url = {https://doi.org/10.2307/210171},
doi = {10.2307/210171},
abstract = {NOT AVAILABLE},
language = {en},
number = {3},
journal = {The Geographical Review},
author = {SAUER, Carl},
year = {1941},
keywords = {Region: Latin America / Caribbean, Language: English, Country: Mexico},
pages = {353--364},
file = {2021 - The Personality of Mexico.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/WHLL77YT/2021 - The Personality of Mexico.pdf:application/pdf},
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