With the usual apologies....
Final Call for Papers:
Geography and Indigenous Peoples (Multiple Sessions)
AAG Annual Meeting
22-27 March 2009: Las Vegas, Nevada
Current CFPs:
-- Places Postcolonialism Forgot: New Examinations of Center & Periphery
-- Is Saying Sorry Enough? Confronting the Enduring Legacies of Settler-state Colonialisms' Atrocities against Indigenous Populations.
-- Modest Witnesses: Fieldwork, Indigenous Knowledges, and Truth-Making
-- Postcolonial Geographies of Texts and Textuality
-- The Impacts of Ruralness to Indigenous Peoples
-- Native Lands, Climate Change and Environmental Issues
-- Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas: Conservation Through Self-Determination
-- Spatial Strategies of Indigenous Resistance
-- Lost in Translation: Collaborating with Community Partners
-- Native Peoples and the Water Nations: issues, problems and solutions
-- The Changing Geographies of the Arctic Region
-- Spatiality of Indigenous Sovereignty
-- Designing Sustainable Non-Timber Forest Product Management Systems
IPSG sponsored sessions are listed on the IPSG website:
http://www.pacificworlds.com/ipsg/meetings.html:
The Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group (IPSG) welcomes scholars working on issues that involve Indigenous peoples, across all regions and specializations within Geography, to contribute to IPSG-sponsored sessions. Indigenous Geography issues operate on the forefront of Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory, as well as addressing issues of Human Rights, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Protected Areas, Environmental Management, Borders and Mobility, and much, much more.
“Indigenous Peoples” is a loosely defined category but generally refers to peoples that exist within a nation-state
-- before its subsequent colonization or annexation; or
-- alongside other cultural groups during the formation of a nation-state; or
-- independently or largely isolated from the influence of the claimed governance by a nation-state, and
-- have maintained at least in part their distinct linguistic, cultural and social / organizational characteristics, and in doing so remain differentiated in some degree from the surrounding populations and dominant culture of the nation-state, and/or
-- who are self-identified as indigenous, and/or those recognized as such by other groups.
The United Nations recognizes More than 370 million indigenous people in some 70 countries worldwide, hence the likelihood that Geographic research may pertain to them.
“Indigenous” can also refer to practices, sciences, or ways of knowing that are culturally and geographically rooted and distinct from the dominant modern-scientific fields of discourse.
If your work intersects with Indigenous issues, consider contributing your paper for inclusion in one of our sessions, or if you have a session that pertains (at least in part) to indigenous people and their issues, please let us know that we may look into (co-)sponsorship. Every year, the IPSG sponsors a range of sessions, some of which are conceptualized from the start, and some which come together out of the diverse interests expressed by potential participants.
If you are interested in participating in a particular session, you can contact the session organizer directly. Otherwise, interested persons, including session organizers and discussants, should contact Doug Herman at The National Museum of the American Indian:
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Abstracts and materials must be received in time to submit before the 16 October 2008 deadline.
Dr. Douglas Herman
Senior Geographer
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution
4th St. & Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20560
Tel: 202-633-8843
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