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Undoing settler imaginaries

(Re)imagining digital knowledge politics

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ID8094697
AuthorsIsaac Rivera (0000-0002-8281-9153, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume47
Issue2
Pages298-316
Publication date2023-02-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/03091325231154873
OpenAlexW4319789914
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited122

Geography as a discipline is entangled in settler colonial regimes that continue to shape geographic practice and the boundaries of geographical knowledge. Digital technologies play an instrumental role in shaping the view of geography and sociospatial relations. This paper traces the construction of the settler imaginary in geographic thought through scholarship and digital geographies and anticolonialism. By bridging anticolonial scholarship and digital geographies, this paper contributes to debates on anticolonial and decolonial refusal politics and its role in realizing reciprocal land-life relations. The (re)imagining of digital knowledge politics begins with accountable digital geographic practices on the terms of Indigenous peoples

Biopower · Colonialism · Critical geography · Cultural geography · Discipline · Human geography · Indigenous · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · The Imaginary · Undoing · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law

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