Greetings listmembers,
please pardon multi-posts.
Below is a CALL FOR PAPERS for paper presentation session exploring Indigenous Identity Politics and Technoscience at the Centennial Association of American Geographers (AAG) Meeting in Philadelphia, 14-19 March 2004.
PLEASE NOTE:
Since AAG abstracts, conference registration and specialty group sponsorship all involve deadlines (most details and dates available at www.aag.org), I sure would appreciate hearing from folks before September 10th. I thank you kindly for your time and attention!
cheers,
Laurel
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Laurel Smith
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Geography
University of Kentucky
POT 1457
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
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http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geography/dept/laurelsmith.htm
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INDIGENOUS IDENTITY POLITICS and TECHNOSCIENCE
Many geographers theorize identity as a relational (and thus politicized) socio-spatial process of demarcating cultural differences. And identity politics are usually understood as the power relations that enable the inclusion or exclusion of groups and individuals by fostering cohesion, mobilization and resource acquisition. Recent research on indigenous identity politics indicate that much negotiation over who and what comprises indigenous peoples, places and practices unfolds within the arenas of action surrounding the numerous conservation and development initiatives currently shaping rural livelihood options and opportunities throughout the world. This would suggest that both pragmatic and programmatic evocations of indigenous identity largely emerge in relation to technoscientific interventions and the often-transnational networking that make possible such projects.
Technoscience is technology-mediated knowledge that is unevenly and collectively produced. (Consider, for instance, the technoscientific and networked nature of this electronically posted CFP and the tools with which we will prepare and present our conference presentations.) Studies of technoscience reveal how the highly influential, institutionalized and industrialized representational practices of technoscience legitimate particular cultural constructions of knowledge and economies of nature. In response to need(ling), increasing numbers of technoscientific interventions claim interest and perhaps investment in knowledges and practices that are often categorized as local and/or indigenous.
What happens when the strategies and tactics of activists, organizations, and/or federations that self-identify as indigenous encounter and engage with scholarly inquiry into human, network and/or physical geographies? Is it helpful to conceptualize and examine these socio-spatial intersections--embodied by our own research as well as that of others--in terms of indigenous identity politics and technoscience?
If these questions, theories or themes (also represented via bullets and selected references down below) touch base with your experiences and/or interests, please consider presenting a paper in the AAG session(s) that I hope to rally around the rubric of "Indigenous Identity Politics and Technoscience."
* analyzing & administrating indigenous (re)sources [1]
* delimiting & demanding territorial integrity [2]
* "hybrid research & democratic policy" [3]
* "cultural geographies in practice" [4]
* "articulating indigenous identity" [5]
* academic advocacy
* visualizing agency & situating knowledges
* networking alliances & entangling states
* intellectual property & organizational relations
[1] Rundstrom, R, D Deur, K Berry, and D Winchell. "Recent Geographical Research on Indians and Inuit in the United States and Canada." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 24, no. 2 (2000): 85-110, especially p. 89.
[2] Knapp, G, and P Herlihy. "Mapping the Landscape of Identity." In Latin America in the 21st Century: Challenges and Solutions, edited by G Knapp, 251-68. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
[3] Batterbury, S, T Forsyth, and K Thomson. "Environmental Transformations in Developing Countries: Hybrid Research and Democratic Policy." The Geographical Journal 163, no. 2 (1997): 126-32.
[4] Bravo, M T. "Cultural Geographies in Practice." Ecumene 7, no. 4 (2000): 468-74.
[5] Li, T M. "Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot." Comparative Studies in Society and History 42 (2000): 149-79.
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