A History of Shifting Settler-colonial Borders: Reading the Native/Non-Native Territorial Palimpsest in and around Rapid City, SD
Résumé
In “A History of Shifting Settler-colonial Borders: Reading the Native/Non-Native Territorial Palimpsest in and around Rapid City, SD,” Sandrine Baudry and Céline Planchou explore the relationship between the concept of imagined geographies and border studies. They are taking a border town and its surrounding territory as a case study to reflect on overlapping native and non-native geographies, re-placing the drawing of arbitrary borders within the broader context of settler colonial violence. They explore how the dominant discourse on local geography is intertwined with the historical national narrative of territorial expansion and the move West, and the political project of erasure of Indigenous peoples, cultures, geogra- phies and resistance. They also look at how current mundane practices, artistic expressions and decolonized research can offer counter narratives at the political and infrapolitical levels, and thus enable the resurgence of native geographies and spatially-based resistance. The chapter concludes with an epistemological reflection on the need for researchers to question their own ingrained tendency to validate dominant geographies as a given.
Domaines
GéographieOrigine | Accord explicite pour ce dépôt |
---|