Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

http://whq.oxfordjournals.org/content/whq/9/2/215.full.pdf

Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774–1890

This paper addresses the decolonizing potential of Indigenous counter-mapping in the context of (what is now called) Canada. After historicizing cartography as a technique of colonial power, and situating Indigenous counter-mapping as an assertion of political and intellectual sovereignty, we examine the digital map of Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Plains Cree for Edmonton, Alberta) produced by the Pipelines Collective, which overlays Treaty 6 Indigenous maps onto ‘conventional’ maps to denaturalize and challenge colonial renderings of city space. We then discuss the expanding trend of guerrilla mapping techniques engaged in by Indigenous groups, emphasizing the Ogimaa Mikana project in Toronto, wherein Anishinaabemowin names were stickered over settler street names. Expanding the spatial theories of Michel de Certeau and Gilles Deleuze, and drawing on the research and insights of Indigenous scholars Jodi Byrd and Mishuana Goeman, our paper considers how emerging digital counter-mapping efforts offer ambiv...

Decolonizing geographies of power: indigenous digital counter-mapping practices on turtle Island

Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843

Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World 1492–1640. By Patricia Seed (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. vii plus 199pp. $49.95/cloth $14.95/paperback)

This paper contributes to recent postcolonial debates about the cartography of European expansion and its implications for constructing North American landscapes. It does so by moving beyond a pure deconstructionist critique of mapping by drawing on range of theoretical literature that encourages a view of cartography as being inextricably tied to the social relations of production and consumption. In particular, it emphasizes the point that maps have social lives not necessarily different in kind from other forms of material culture. Drawing on the cartographic creation of the northwest, the argument develops through examining the social and material dimensions of map making and its afterlife. The paper suggests, therefore, that the ‘power of maps’ had varying and often contradictory outcomes.

On mapping and its afterlife: unfolding landscapes in northwestern North America

The concept of ethnicity is a prevailing explanatory device in studies of colonial architecture. This paper argues for decentring ethnicity in buildings research through treating buildings as ‘asse...

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Jeffry Monson Oliver

Papers

On mapping and its afterlife: unfolding landscapes in northwestern North America

On decentring ethnicity in buildings research: The settler homestead as assemblage:

Elbow Grease and Time to Spare: The Place of Tree Carving

The Paradox of Progress: Land Survey and the Making of Agrarian Society in Colonial British Columbia

Wild Signs: An Introduction