Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session, 2008 Annual Meeting,
Association of American Geographers
Boston, Massachusettes, April 15-19 2008

Title:

New Stories for Old Places II: Politics of Place for Indigenous Geographies

Description:

The "New Stories for Old Places" sessions focus on grounding contemporary and historical examples of Indigenous politics within a robust philosophy of place that, in turn, will inform and promote productive place-based efforts in the future.

Anticipated Attendance:

40

Organizers:

Soren Larsen

Jay T. Johnson

Chairs:

Charles Bartlett Travis

Participants:

Presenter:

RDK Herman, The National Museum of the American Indian: (Re)Constructing a Native Place

Presenter:

Charles Bartlett Travis, 'Quaking Sod' Spaces of Alienation, Fear and Vertigo in Post-Colonial Ireland

Presenter:

Lance Howard, Toward an Modern-Indigenous Alliance on Place-Interaction

Presenter:

Charles Lippstreu, Bolivia on New Terms: Indigenous Socialism and 'La Visión de País'

Presenter:

William Forbes, Restoration of Apache Landscape and Memory in Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental

 

Sponsorships:

Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Cultural Geography Specialty Group

 

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