I know it’s awfully late to circulate a CFP, but I thought I’d give it a go
anyway. Please accept my apologies for any cross-postings.
And please note that this session might be of particular interest to graduate
students and others who may be in the throes of formulating research strategies
and proposals.
_______ Locating Indigenous Methodologies, a discussion panel_______
Striving to build on the three years of AAG-centered conversations about
indigenous methodologies organized by Renee Pualani Louis, and to complement
other San Francisco AAG conference configurations concerned with indigenous
geographies, this DISCUSSION PANEL sets out to situate indigenous methodologies
in relation to other theoretical praxis.
A common thread running through the emerging tapestry of indigenous
methodologies is the refusal to lose site/sight/cite of questions (and answers)
about the cultural politics that color environmental inquiry. And an important
institutional adjustment emerging out of research and writing practices
embedded within this perspective is an amplification (albeit sporadic) of
methodological strategies designed to foster greater inclusion of
differentially-located social and technological actors.
This panel asks: What other analytical angles also call our attention to the
jagged edges of uneven participation in the production of authoritative
knowledge and/or suggest alternative frameworks for critically appraising
representational practices? For example, several concerns and concepts
addressed by proponents and practioners of indigenous methodologies
productively overlap the politics of positionality, which are centered in
postcolonial and/or feminist inquiries. Furthermore, recent examinations and
articulations of indigenous geographies profitably connect to a growing body of
scholarship that dismantles time-honored binaries such as nature-society (or
culture), as well as human and unhuman.
Do you see these and/or any other linkages? Or do you think I should get my lens
prescription fixed? Would you care to talk about such matters during a
DISCUSSION PANEL (which means it will not interfere with your presentation on a
paper panel) at the San Francisco AAG? Basically, your participation would
entail a 5-8 minute commentary filled with observations and/or suggestions and
then listening to and (hopefully) engaging with what other presenters and
attendees have to say.
Kindly send expressions of interest as quickly as you can (to [log in to unmask]).
Perhaps enough interest will congeal over the next week, before the AAG
deadline on October 26)...
all my best,
Laurel
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Laurel C. Smith, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53211
(414) 426-0782
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http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Geography/faculty/smith.html
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