Indigenous Mapping: Elements for a Critical Analysis
Hirt, Irène
Indigenous Mapping: Elements for a Critical Analysis - 2009.
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Studies of indigenous mapping represent an under-developed academic field in French-language geography. This article reviews recent developments on the subject in English-language literature. It gives also an account of the main theoretical debates, which consider the use of Western mapping by indigenous peoples either as an instrument of empowerment and decolonisation or as a source of cultural assimilation. These aspects are examined in the light of an experiment in indigenous mapping performed by the Mapuche people in Chile.
Indigenous Mapping: Elements for a Critical Analysis - 2009.
58
Studies of indigenous mapping represent an under-developed academic field in French-language geography. This article reviews recent developments on the subject in English-language literature. It gives also an account of the main theoretical debates, which consider the use of Western mapping by indigenous peoples either as an instrument of empowerment and decolonisation or as a source of cultural assimilation. These aspects are examined in the light of an experiment in indigenous mapping performed by the Mapuche people in Chile.
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