Dear all
We are excited to announce that the Institute of Australian Geographer’s Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights Study Group is organising a 1 day pre-conference workshop in Canberra on June 30 2015. This precedes the IAG conference itself July 1-3 (please note extension for abstracts, details below). We would love your participation and have secured funding from the IAG to support participation by Indigenous postgraduate and early career geographers as well as Indigenous research collaborators. Details are below – please contact us to register your interest for the Workshop, to submit an EoI for funding, to send us a copy of your abstract and if you have any questions at all.
June 30 IAG IPKR Study Group 1 day Workshop, Canberra – ‘Giving back’
At the heart of the workshop ’Giving back’ will be discussion of the Monk Archive, a 50 year old body of work that geographer Jan Monk collected in 1965 and which has been revisited through an ARC Discovery Project. Professor Richie Howitt will lead the workshop with presentations from Jan Monk and PhD candidate David Crew. Indigenous members of two communities involved - Griffith and Deniliquin - will attend the workshop to discuss the impact of the return of the Monk Archive, how each community has reflected on their own local history over the last 50 years and how they are working in partnership with researchers to identify stronger futures for their communities. This will be complemented by presentation and discussion of other geographical work around issues such as repatriation of ancestral remains.
The workshop is co-hosted with AIATSIS and supported by funds from the IAG.
July 1- 3 IAG Conference, Canberra
The IPRKSG is hosting the following two sessions at the IAG Conference.
Please note deadlinse for abstracts has been extended - new date * 24 March 2015 *. Abstracts may be submitted via the conference website: https://kaigi.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebsitePortal/iag2015/iag2015. Please also email us with a copy of your abstract.
Indigenous geographical research methodologies and ethics
Indigenous geographical research methods and ethics are context specific, focus on engagement, and often speak to the core of what it is to do research in geography. Researching Indigenous geographies in an ethical way invites us to rethink what research can do, and reposition power relationships in research processes. Indeed, ‘decolonized Indigenous geographies may reveal their potential to nurture, enliven, teach and transform.’ (Coombes, Johnson and Howitt , 2014: 851). We welcome contributions to this session that connect to – and reflect upon – multiple nurturing, enlivening, instructive and transformative approaches within Indigenous geographical methodologies and ethics.
Coombes, B., Johnson, J. and Howitt, R. 2014. Indigenous geographies III: Methodological innovation and the unsettling of participatory research, Progress in Human Geography 2014, Vol. 38(6) 845–854.
Session title: Contemporary research in Indigenous peoples' rights and knowledges
In this session, we invite participants to talk to their contemporary practice in researching Indigenous peoples’ rights and knowledges. What are the questions driving your research and what approaches are you taking to answer them? Who participates in and benefits from this research? How are Indigenous peoples’ rights and knowledges driving your work and what are you learning? Can these learnings contribute to transformative change and social justice?
The Study Group is also happy to announce that Professor Janice Monk will be giving a keynote address or semi-plenary at the conference.
Funding to support participation by Indigenous postgraduate and early career geographers as well as Indigenous research collaborators
To encourage the participation of Indigenous postgraduate and early career geographers as well as Indigenous research collaborators in these events we have funds from the Institute of Australian Geographers to subsidise travel costs and participation. If you would like to apply for these funds please send us an Expression of Interest by March 24. In the EoI please let us know how many participants are coming, from where and to attend which activities.
We look forward to seeing you in Canberra
Jess McLean and Sandie Suchet-Pearson, co-convenors of the IAG IPKRSG
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