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Decolonizing the Map

Recentering Indigenous Mappings

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ID14701391
AuthorsReuben Rose-Redwood (0000-0001-6384-5877, University of Victoria, corresponding author), Natchee Blu Barnd (Oregon State University), Annita Hetoevėhotohke’e Lucchesi (University of Arizona), Annita Lucchesi (University of Arizona), Sharon Dias (0000-0001-9567-5796, University of Victoria), Wil Patrick (University of Victoria)
Year2020
Volume55
Issue3
Pages151-162
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0317-7173 • E-ISSN: 1911-9925
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cart.53.3.intro
OpenAlexW3091713470
LanguageEN
Citations received71
References cited46

For over five centuries, cartographic map-making has played a pivotal role as a political technology of empire-building, settler colonialism, and the dispossession of Indigenous lands. Yet Indigenous peoples themselves have long engaged in their own mapping practices to share ancestral knowledge, challenge colonial rule, and reclaim Indigenous “place-worlds.” Although there is now a sizable body of scholarly literature on the mapping of empire, this special issue on “Decolonizing the Map” aims to recenter Indigenous mappings and decolonial cartographies as spatial practices of world-making. In this introductory article, we provide an overview of the theory and praxis of decolonial mapping and outline the key themes of the contributions to the present special issue. Drawing upon insights from this edited collection, we conclude that decolonial mapping requires a recentering of Indigenous geographical knowledge, respect for Indigenous protocols, and the active participation of Indigenous peoples in the mapping process itself if the project of decolonizing the map is to truly move beyond the colonial cartographic frame

Archaeology · Colonialism · Empire · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Ecology

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Citations per year14,2
Citation span2021 - 2026 (6)
Citation velocitycurrent
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