Title:

Spatial Strategies of Indigenous Resistance IV - Language and Identity

Description:

In most settler societies, indigenous peoples have been subjected to a range of spatial strategies aimed at dismantling culture and/or assimilating them into the mainstream society. Whether it is being relocated to reservations or having the structures and infrastructures of modernity imposed on Native societies, these "spatial strategies of incorporation" target everyday life in a way intended (consciously or otherwise) to disrupt indigenous socio-spatial structures and practices and align them with the mainstream.

At the same time, indigenous peoples engage various spatial strategies of resistance to retain cultural identity, if not a degree of sovereignty. This session focuses the role of language in the construction of space and the reassertion of identity.

Anticipated Attendance:

100

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Sponsorships:

Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group