A5080205078- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Indigenous and Place-Based Education
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Mining and Resource Management
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Data Analysis and Archiving
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- South Asian Studies and Conflicts
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Critical and Liberation Pedagogy
- Urban Planning and Governance
- American Environmental and Regional History
University of Kansas
2011-2023
Sandia National Laboratories California
2021
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
2005-2008
Indigenous peoples live in challenging environments and engage complex negotiations to access their rights. Yet research on social mobilization often stereotypes them as victims of environmental management. We review three debates through which human geographers are beginning more meaningfully with environmentalism: the political ecology neoliberalism; deliberation within claims settlement; propertization socio-ecological relations. A movement away from conflating local is evident those...
Working with Indigenous peoples has stretched geographers’ presumptions about appropriate modes of engagement and representation. Early feminist geography prompted methodological experimentation that exercised significant lasting influence on the discipline. The politics working yields similarly insights research leadership choices are now recognized more widely. We juxtapose prevailing ethnographic collaborative approaches to researching against Indigenes’ preference for leading into their...
Contemporary Indigenous activism asserts an agency for place not normally found in geographical scholarship. Through place-based protest, organizing, and direct action, Native non-Native people are interacting with as a conscious being the capacity to speak, create, teach responsibilities required more inclusive forms of coexistence today's settler states. This "placework" articulates more-than-human self whose subjectivities grounded in, accountable to, land-based relationships knowledges....
Abstract Background Drawing upon multiple types of knowledge (e.g., Indigenous knowledge, local science-based knowledge) strengthens the evidence-base for policy advice, decision making, and environmental management. While benefits incorporating in research management are many, doing so has remained a challenge. This systematic map examined extent, range, nature published literature (i.e., commercially grey) that seeks to respectively bridge coastal marine Canada. Methods applied...
Abstract Since the earliest days of European Enlightenment, Western people have sought to remove themselves from nature and ‘savage’ non‐European masses. This distancing has relied upon various intellectual techniques theories. The social construction precipitated by Enlightenment thinking separated culture nature, being defined as civilised society. separation served displace Native voice within colonial Nature. also one thread in long modern ‘disenchantment’ Westerners a described so...
Required to negotiate a transcultural present in which their rights and opportunities are circumscribed by the pleadings of multicultural others, Indigenous peoples have attracted attention for approaches alliance-building, responsible co-existence self-determined care. In this second report on geographies 1 , we associate those projects with hope but, recognizing that futuristic gaze allegedly progressive cases can lapse into naivety, call further postcolonial critique influences cases. We...
This article contributes to ongoing efforts in human geography theorize place as a basis for progressive politics by linking recent work phenomenology with contemporary interpretations of affinity politics. The phenomenological insight is that existence foundational kind placing through which the world presents itself and place-based ontology can be developed exploring features situatedness. Affinity involves creating noncoercive, cooperative, spontaneous relationships direct action mutual...
In June, 2006, an international meeting on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), Australia began a new journey for geography with the first gathering of International Geographical Union's (IGU) newest commission Indigenous Peoples' Knowledges and Rights. The formal launch this at regional conference IGU in Brisbane, Australia, Regional Responses to Global Changes: A View from Antipodes, was culmination decades work by geographers working toward development what José Barreiro has called, 'an...
Abstract In this introduction to the special issue, we explore how experience of on-the-ground research in Indigenous geography transforms Native and non-Native practitioners by challenging, reworking, ultimately expanding their existential, social, conceptual understandings place. Following a brief overview contemporary work area geography, essay unpacks process place-based metamorphosis with specific reference contributions that appear volume. As part discussion, identify epistemological,...
Abstract Mutually respectful and reciprocal relationships between people their environment is a central tenet of many Indigenous worldviews. Across the Americas, this relational connection particularly evident when it comes to freshwater ecosystems. However, there are numerous threats these peoples environment. Using all available ways knowing conserve, prioritize, restore they live in, part of, critical. Despite legislative requirements policy commitments, developing implementing inclusive...
Multiculturalism has been offered as an answer to the civil rights claims of a wide variety ethnic and national minorities within liberal democratic settler-states. This article adds critiques appropriateness multiculturalism in answering self-determination indigenous populations by investigating biculturalism Aotearoa/New Zealand. Indigenous groups continue demand greater recognition not only sui generis land resources but also acceptance philosophies perspectives management resources. As...
Following up on our previous article, "Weaving Indigenous science, protocols and sustainability science" we posited that for Western Sciences to work together there must be reciprocity. For reciprocity, science adhere the of People's science. The fundamental underpinnings reciprocity being "reciprocal appropriation," first described by Kiowa intellectual N. Scott Momaday in edited volume, Seeing with a Native eye: Essays American religion. explained reciprocal appropriation as paradox which...
This editors’ introduction seeks to spark a conversation and further debate through the 14 papers 3 commentaries comprising this special issue entitled “Indigenous Research Sovereignty.” By inviting authors publish in edition address Indigenous Sovereignty from variety of viewpoints, we have brought together collection that inspires, transforms, expands on ways which non-Indigenous researchers are engaging with communities research agendas across globe. Through our work over past 8 years,...