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Indigenous
Peoples Specialty Group |
Title: | The Colonial Present II: Geographical Imaginations | ||||||||||
Description: | This second session on the "Colonial Present" focuses on imaginings: both hegemonic representations/constructions of indigenous peoples that facilitate the perpetuation of colonial present/presence, and the production of new indigenous discourses of place and identity. The first paper explores the links between aviation, imperialism and the generation of geographical imaginations in fascist Italy, analysing aviation as a hybridisation process uniting a rational yet geographically situated political-ideological system with an identified colonial space. The second paper examines the different ways a Ngai Tahu story in New Zealand is told in publications and in visitor centers of the world heritage area management units, and explores how stories in these interpretation materials serve as sites of political negotiation over different understandings of this landscape. The third paper draws on ethnographic material from the community of Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory and its inhabitants, and demonstrates the connection between the physical Arctic environment and the changing identities of the Inuit of Iqaluit as their connection with the landscape weakens. The fourth paper considers the emerging field of place-conscious education, and how its orientation towards social justice, accountability and local/global knowledge synthesis offers an entry point for a more robust appreciation of the physical/spiritual relationships and attachments. The final paper will look at how underscoring 'ethnic' im/migrant's and Indigenous people's common experiences with postcolonial policies could lead to opportunities to reclaim similarities and differences in their stories, to recreate contemporary identity and to re-present points of intersection for integrative and decolonizing social change agendas. |
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Anticipated Attendance: | 100 | ||||||||||
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Sponsorships: | Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group |