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How is mapping produced and mobilized by indigenous peoples to defend their political, cultural and territorial rights? That is the question this research in critical cartography and postcolonial geography will seek to answer. It is argued that indigenous mapping strategies are experiencing a process of “globalization” or “transnationalization”, which is part of the general tendency of transnationalization of indigenous political movements since the 1970s. The research will be based on qualitative methods from the social sciences (interviews and participant observation) and a multiscalar analysis of the political, cultural, technological and methodological processes characterizing the production and use of mapping by indigenous peoples. Taking into account the North-South diversity of indigenous realities, the project will concentrate on two research sites: Canada and Bolivia. Canadian indigenous people have been the first to use maps since the 1960s, which allows making an assessment of the impacts of indigenous mapping in the long-term. Bolivia, on the opposite, enables observation of “the making of” indigenous mapping, since it takes place within the recent political changes of the country. Research will be completed by fieldwork in international organizations (United Nations and International Labour Organization), in order to investigate the mechanisms of Bolivian and Canadian indigenous territorial claims and mapping within those institutions. The investigation will contribute to a better understanding not only of the role of cartography in the development of indigenous territorial claims but also of the globalized production and movement of ideas, representations and geographical imaginations related to contemporaneous indigeneity. Indigenous mapping, challenging the political and cultural foundations of modern nation-states and territories, is an essential topic to be studied within the social sciences and European Research.
Dziedzina nauki
Zaproszenie do składania wniosków
FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IOF
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System finansowania
MC-IOF - International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF)Koordynator
1211 Geneve
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