2007 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
April 17-21 2007, San Francisco, CA
2412: Re/envisioning Place in a Spatial World:
Indigenous Peoples and 'Place-based struggle'
Wednesday, 4/18/07, from 1:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Description:
"One could say that today there is an emerging philosophy
and politics of place even if it still is clearly under construction
(Escobar 2001: 143)." This emerging philosophy and politics
of place, described by Escobar, has been the focus of study for
a number of phenomenologist, for whom body and place are the foundation
of human existence, for ecological anthropologist through their
discussions of place-based models of nature and for the place-based
struggles of Indigenous/local peoples around the world who, "take
place and place-based modes of consciousness as both the point of
departure and goal of their political strategies (Escobar 2001:
153)." This paper session seeks to promote work done by geographers
to "get back into place (Casey 1997)," particularly with
regard to research concerning the place-based struggles of Indigenous
communities that reasserts place in an effort to rethink and rework
"Eurocentric forms of analysis (Escobar 2001)." Papers
may include but are not limited to; place-based educational models,
place specific expressions of self-determination, non-capitalist
Indigenous/local economic models, and the expression of place-based
Indigenous struggles within international forums.
Organizer: Jay T. Johnson - University of Nebraska
Chair: Ezra Zeitler - University Of Nebraska-Lincoln
Presenters:
Jay T. Johnson, PhD - University of Nebraska
Place-based learning and knowing: Critical pedagogies
anchored in Indigeneity
Joel Regehr - York University
Rethinking Politics and Place: Red Power Activism
in San Francisco and Vancouver
Renee Pualani Louis - University of Hawai'i
*Margaret Wickens Pearce - Ohio University
Incorporating depth of place in Indigenous cartographies
Kallen M. Martin, ABD - St. Lawrence University; Syracuse University
Life Along The Line: Places of Memory and Landscapes
of Contestation
Discussant: Anne Godlewska - Queens University
