CALL FOR PAPERS:
Native Lands, Climate Change and Environmental Issues
2009 Annual Meeting,
Association of American Geographers,
March 22-27, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada
Co-sponsored by the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group and the Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group.
Climate change and the associated shifting patterns of weather and plant and animal life have enormous impact on Indigenous peoples. Artic peoples and tropical islanders are currently the most significantly affected, but indigenous peoples as a whole—living closer to the land—are more quickly and acutely affected by the environmental issues of climate change.
There has been increasing scholarly involvement on these issues, including several sessions at recent AAG meetings, as well as other conferences around the hemisphere including the past two Tribal College Forums. In addition, there is increasing involvement of Native scholars and students in adapting GIS and other tools for addressing indigenous issues to perform scholarship in culturally appropriate ways.
This session or series of sessions seeks to further our ongoing engagement on this topic, and to showcase the latest scholarship in Geography on these issues. We invites scholars working with Indigenous peoples on climate change and environmental issues--anywhere in the world--to present on their work. Papers on any aspect of this topic will be welcome, as we look to see the range of scholarship being done in this important area.
What you must send:
In order to submit an abstract, go the AAG website (http://www.aag.org/), click on '2009 Annual Meeting'. You will then need to 'Register Online' for the conference and 'Submit an Abstract'. Once you do, you will receive a PIN number. Send that to me and I will include your paper in one of the sessions. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Nov. 13, 2008. Please contact the organizer *before* that deadline.
Organizer and contact:
Douglas Herman
Senior Geographer,
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution
hermand(at)si.edu
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