2007 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
April 17-21 2007, San Francisco, CA
4246: Locating Indigenous Methodologies
Friday, 4/20/07, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Description:
A common thread running through the emerging tapestry of indigenous
methodologies is the refusal to lose site/sight/cite of questions
(and answers) about the cultural politics that color environmental
inquiry. And an important institutional adjustment emerging out
of research and writing practices embedded within this perspective
is an amplification (albeit sporadic) of methodological strategies
designed to foster greater inclusion of differentially-located social
and technological actors. This panel asks: What other analytical
angles also call our attention to the jagged edges of uneven participation
in the production of authoritative knowledge and/or suggest alternative
frameworks for critically appraising representational practices?
For example, several concerns and concepts addressed by proponents
and practioners of indigenous methodologies productively overlap
the politics of positionality, which are centered in postcolonial
and/or feminist inquiries. Furthermore, recent examinations and
articulations of indigenous geographies profitably connect to a
growing body of scholarship that dismantles time-honored binaries
such as nature-society (or culture), as well as human and unhuman.
Organizer: Laurel Smith - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Chair: Laurel Smith - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Panelist(s):
