Geography and indigeneity I: Indigeneity, coloniality and knowledge

Radcliffe, Sarah A.

doi:10.1177/0309132515612952

Cited by 163Indigenous Health, Education, and RightsIndigenous Cultures and HistoryHistorical Geography and Geographical Thought

Geography and indigeneity I: Indigeneity, coloniality and knowledge

Open access

Radcliffe, Sarah A.·2017·Progress in Human Geography

DOI 10.1177/0309132515612952

Open this paper in CoChat — free account Open PDF

Abstract

Why talk of indigeneity rather than of Indigenous peoples? This report examines the critical purchase on questions of inequality, subjectivity and power offered by critical geographies of indigeneity. In comparison with accounts that treat indigeneity as relational with nature and the more-than-human, the report highlights literature that examines indigeneity as relational with deeply historical, institutionalized and power-inflected ontologies. To think about settler colonialism as an ongoing effect, not a singular event, recognizes how patterns of engagement with and oppression of indigeneity pervade the colonial present and its geographies beyond the specific locales associated with Indigenous peoples. Finally, the report examines how indigeneity figures in the geography discipline’s knowledge production, and argues that worldly Indigenous ontologies are theorizing the world precisely because they are forced to apprehend, appraise and then rethink ‘universals’.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1177/0309132515612952

Cites

71 of 71 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Indigeneity is fundamentally temporal, spatial and relational and cannot be disentangled from the (neo)colonial 'encounters' in which it is produced and reproduced until the present day.
“The term is thus fundamentally temporal, spatial and relational and cannot be disentangled from the (neo)colonial 'encounters,' in which it is produced and reproduced until the present day (Radcliffe, 2017).”
From Mining indigenous territories: Consensus, tensions and ambivalences in the Salar de Atacama (2022) · cites this paper as Radcliffe, 2017

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

8 Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Smith, L. T. (2024) · Multilingual Matters eBooks · doi:10.21832/9781800418868-012 · Cited by 9,765 · see citing works
Red Skin, White Masks
Coulthard, G. S., & Alfred, T. (2010) · University of Minnesota Press eBooks · doi:10.5749/9781452942421 · Cited by 4,042 · see citing works
Economies of Abandonment
Povinelli, E. A. (2011) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822394570 · Cited by 2,333 · see citing works
Mohawk interruptus: (political life across the borders of settler states)
(2014) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.185655 · Cited by 1,964 · see citing works
The Transit of Empire
Byrd, J. A. (2011) · University of Minnesota Press eBooks · doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816676408.001.0001 · Cited by 1,892 · see citing works
An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word For Colonialism
Todd, Z. (2016) · Journal of Historical Sociology · doi:10.1111/johs.12124 · Cited by 1,864 · see citing works
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
Simpson, A. (2014) · doi:10.1215/9780822376781 · Cited by 1,431 · see citing works
Progress in Human Geography
Johnston, R. J., Dicken, P., Smith, S., Williams, M., & Murphy, A. (2001) · Progress in Human Geography · doi:10.1191/030913201682688913 · Cited by 1,300 · see citing works
Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism
Povinelli, E. A. (2011) · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · Cited by 1,262 · see citing works
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Hallenbeck, J., Krebs, M., Hunt, S., Goonewardena, K., Kipfer, S. A., Pasternak, S., & Coulthard, G. S. (2016) · The AAG Review of Books · doi:10.1080/2325548x.2016.1146013 · Cited by 968 · see citing works
Decolonizing posthumanist geographies
Sundberg, J. (2013) · Cultural Geographies · doi:10.1177/1474474013486067 · Cited by 843 · see citing works
Ch'ixinakax utxiwa : A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization
Cusicanqui, S. R. (2012) · South Atlantic Quarterly · doi:10.1215/00382876-1472612 · Cited by 761 · see citing works
The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
Byrd, J. A. (2011) · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · Cited by 633 · see citing works
Co-becoming Bawaka
Country, B., Wright, S., Suchet‐Pearson, S., Lloyd, K., Burarrwanga, L., Ganambarr, R., Ganambarr‐Stubbs, M., Ganambarr, B., Maymuru, D., & Sweeney, J. (2015) · Progress in Human Geography · doi:10.1177/0309132515589437 · Cited by 589 · see citing works
Returns
Clifford, J. (2013) · Harvard University Press eBooks · doi:10.4159/9780674726222 · Cited by 509 · see citing works
The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now
Morgensen, S. L. (2011) · Settler Colonial Studies · doi:10.1080/2201473x.2011.10648801 · Cited by 458 · see citing works
Ontologies of Indigeneity: the politics of embodying a concept
Hunt, S. (2013) · Cultural Geographies · doi:10.1177/1474474013500226 · Cited by 457 · see citing works
The Settler Colonial Present
Veracini, L. (2015) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/9781137372475 · Cited by 338 · see citing works
Indigenizing Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the "Peculiar" Status of Native Peoples
Rifkin, M. (2009) · Cultural Critique · doi:10.1353/cul.0.0049 · Cited by 268 · see citing works
Returns: becoming indigenous in the twenty-first century
(2014) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.51-3919 · Cited by 245 · see citing works
Social and Cultural Geography
Ahamer, G. (2012) · Cited by 232 · see citing works
Indigenous development in the Andes: culture, power, and transnationalism
Andolina, R., Laurie, N., & Radcliffe, S. (2011) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.48-2859 · Cited by 190 · see citing works
Self-citation
Indigenous geographies III
Coombes, B., Johnson, J. T., & Howitt, R. (2014) · Progress in Human Geography · doi:10.1177/0309132513514723 · Cited by 159 · see citing works
Indigenous geographies I: mere resource conflicts? the complexities in Indigenous land and environmental claims
Coombes, B., Johnson, J. T., & Howitt, R. (2012) · Progress in Human Geography · doi:10.1177/0309132511431410 · Cited by 159 · see citing works
Toxic geographies: absences in critical race thought and practice in social and cultural geography
Mahtani, M. (2014) · Social & Cultural Geography · doi:10.1080/14649365.2014.888297 · Cited by 146 · see citing works
BETWEEN SUBALTERNITY AND INDIGENEITY
Byrd, J. A., & Rothberg, M. V. (2011) · Interventions · doi:10.1080/1369801x.2011.545574 · Cited by 143 · see citing works
THE GOVERNANCE OF THE PRIOR
Povinelli, E. A. (2011) · Interventions · doi:10.1080/1369801x.2011.545575 · Cited by 132 · see citing works
Remapping Bolivia : resources, territory, and indigeneity in a plurinational state
Fabricant, N., & Gustafson, B. (2011) · School for Advanced Research Press eBooks · Cited by 125 · see citing works
Reconceptualizing ecosystem services
Jackson, S., & Palmer, L. R. (2014) · Progress in Human Geography · doi:10.1177/0309132514540016 · Cited by 124 · see citing works
S ubaltern geographies: Geographical knowledge and postcolonial strategy
Jazeel, T. (2014) · Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography · doi:10.1111/sjtg.12053 · Cited by 119 · see citing works
Indigenous in the City
Peters, E., & Andersen, C. (2013) · University of British Columbia Press eBooks · doi:10.59962/9780774824668 · Cited by 117 · see citing works
Weaponizing maps: indigenous peoples and counterinsurgency in the Americas
(2015) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.192555 · Cited by 110 · see citing works
Where would we be without them? Knowledge, space and power in indigenous politics
Bryan, J. (2008) · Futures · doi:10.1016/j.futures.2008.07.005 · Cited by 109 · see citing works
Indigenous geographies II
Coombes, B., Johnson, J. T., & Howitt, R. (2012) · Progress in Human Geography · doi:10.1177/0309132512469590 · Cited by 104 · see citing works
Ethnogeomorphology
Wilcock, D. A., Brierley, G., & Howitt, R. (2013) · Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment · doi:10.1177/0309133313483164 · Cited by 103 · see citing works
Indigenous Development in the Andes
(2009) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822391067 · Cited by 103 · see citing works
Beyond Carbon: Enabling Justice and Equity in REDD+ Across Levels of Governance
Schroeder, H., & McDermott, C. L. (2014) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-06537-190131 · Cited by 102 · see citing works
Indigenous more-than-humanisms: relational ethics with the Hurunui River in Aotearoa New Zealand
Thomas, A. C. (2015) · Social & Cultural Geography · doi:10.1080/14649365.2015.1042399 · Cited by 98 · see citing works
Indigeneity and ontology
Cameron, E. S., de Leeuw, S., & Desbiens, C. (2013) · Cultural Geographies · doi:10.1177/1474474013500229 · Cited by 83 · see citing works
Dilemmas of difference: Indigenous women and the limits of postcolonial development policy
(2016) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.196635 · Cited by 83 · see citing works
Environmental governance through “Speaking Like an Indigenous State” and respatializing resources: Ethical livelihood concepts in Bolivia as versatility or verisimilitude?
Zimmerer, K. S. (2013) · Geoforum · doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.07.004 · Cited by 82 · see citing works
‘Our home, our way of life’: spiritual homelessness and the sociocultural dimensions of Indigenous homelessness in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada
Christensen, J. (2013) · Social & Cultural Geography · doi:10.1080/14649365.2013.822089 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
Indigenous in the city: contemporary identities and cultural innovation
(2013) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.51-2378 · Cited by 70 · see citing works
Planetary postcolonialism
Sidaway, J. D., Woon, C. Y., & Jacobs, J. M. (2014) · Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography · doi:10.1111/sjtg.12049 · Cited by 70 · see citing works
Reworking the Spaces of Indigeneity: The Bolivian Ayllu and Lowland Autonomy Movements Compared
Perreault, T., & Green, B. (2013) · Environment and Planning D Society and Space · doi:10.1068/d0112 · Cited by 64 · see citing works
Dilemmas of Difference
Radcliffe, S. A. (2015) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822375029 · Cited by 60 · see citing works
Self-citation
Resource Sovereignties in B olivia: Re‐Conceptualising the Relationship between Indigenous Identities and the Environment during the TIPNIS Conflict
Laing, A. F. (2014) · Bulletin of Latin American Research · doi:10.1111/blar.12211 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
Culturally articulated neoliberalisation: corporate social responsibility and the capture of indigenous legitimacy in New Caledonia
Horowitz, L. S. (2014) · Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers · doi:10.1111/tran.12057 · Cited by 53 · see citing works
Translocal assemblages and the circulation of the concept of “indigenous peoples” in Laos
Baird, I. G. (2014) · Political Geography · doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.12.001 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
Indigenous-Inclusive Citizenship: The City and Social Housing in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia
Walker, R. C., & Barcham, M. (2010) · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space · doi:10.1068/a41314 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
The Rise of Indigenous Hypermarginality
Bessire, L. (2014) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/676527 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
Weaponizing Maps: Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas
Bryan, J., & Wood, D. (2017) · The SHAFR Guide Online · doi:10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim090240004 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
Indigenous Albuquerque
Miller, D. K. (2012) · Ethnohistory · doi:10.1215/00141801-1537002 · Cited by 42 · see citing works
Composing postcolonial geographies: Postconstructivism, ecology and overcoming ontologies of critique
Jackson, M. (2014) · Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography · doi:10.1111/sjtg.12052 · Cited by 41 · see citing works
Animating the Sacred, Sentient and Spiritual in Post‐Humanist and Material Geographies
Gergan, M. D. (2015) · Geography Compass · doi:10.1111/gec3.12210 · Cited by 39 · see citing works
Subaltern Bureaucrats and Postcolonial Rule: Indigenous Professional Registers of Engagement with the Chilean State
Radcliffe, S. A., & Webb, A. (2015) · Comparative Studies in Society and History · doi:10.1017/s0010417514000668 · Cited by 38 · see citing works
Self-citation
Colonialism and the Tensioned Landscapes of Indigeneity
Kobayashi, A., & de Leeuw, S. (2010) · SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks · doi:10.4135/9780857021113.n5 · Cited by 35 · see citing works
Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo
Watson, M. K. (2014) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781315815435 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
State of care: the ontologies of child welfare in British Columbia
de Leeuw, S. (2013) · Cultural Geographies · doi:10.1177/1474474013491925 · Cited by 33 · see citing works
The fourth world
Eltit, D., & Gerdes, D. (1995) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 31 · see citing works
Searching for Aboriginal/Indigenous Self-Determination: Urban Citizenship in the Winnipeg Low-Cost-Housing Sector, Canada
Walker, R. C. (2006) · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space · doi:10.1068/a38136 · Cited by 29 · see citing works
GIS, Internal Colonialism, and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Palmer, M. H., & Rundstrom, R. A. (2012) · Annals of the Association of American Geographers · doi:10.1080/00045608.2012.720233 · Cited by 27 · see citing works
Resisting Environmental Dispossession in E cuador: Whom Does the Political Category of ‘Ancestral Peoples of the Mangrove Ecosystem’ Include and Aim to Empower?
Latorre, S. (2014) · Journal of Agrarian Change · doi:10.1111/joac.12052 · Cited by 25 · see citing works
Adapt or Die? The Biopolitics of Indigeneity—From the Civilising Mission to the Need for Adaptation
Lindroth, M., & Sinevaara-Niskanen, H. (2014) · Global Society · doi:10.1080/13600826.2014.887557 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
Plural Knowledges and Modernity: Social Difference and Geographical Explanations
Radcliffe, S. A. (2013) · International perspectives in geography · doi:10.1007/978-4-431-54406-7_5 · Cited by 16 · see citing works
Self-citation
“There are mentalities that need changing”: Constructing personhood, formulating citizenship, and performing subjectivities on a settler colonial frontier
Gombay, N. (2015) · Political Geography · doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.05.008 · Cited by 15 · see citing works
Indigeneity and the intercultural city
James, S. W. (2012) · Postcolonial Studies · doi:10.1080/13688790.2012.693045 · Cited by 14 · see citing works
Introduction
Stea, D., & Wisner, B. (1984) · Antipode · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.1984.tb00657.x · Cited by 13 · see citing works
Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo : Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics
Watson, M. K. (2014) · Cited by 11 · see citing works
Historicizing ‘ethnodevelopment’: Kamayoq and political-economic integration across governance regimes in the Peruvian Andes
Yates, J. S. (2014) · Journal of Historical Geography · doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2014.08.001 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
The I ndigenous A etas of B ataan, P hilippines: Extraordinary genetic origins, modern history and land rights
McHenry, M. P., Anwar‐McHenry, J., Balilla, V. S., et al. (2013) · Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography · doi:10.1111/sjtg.12038 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 6

Anthias, P. 2014. The Elusive Promise of Territory: An ethnographic case study of Indigenous land titling in the Bolivian Chaco. Unpublished PhD thesis. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Cambridge.
Jazeel, T. 2014 Subaltern geographies: Geographical knowledge and postcolonial strategy. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 35: 88-103.
Laing AF (2015) Resource sovereignties in Bolivia: Reconceptualizing the relationship between indigenous identity and the environment during the TIPNIS conflict. Bulletin of Latin American Research 34 (2): 149-166.
Lester, A. and Dussart, F. 2012 Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the 19 th century British Empire. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
McHenry, M., Anwar-McHenry, J., Balilla, V.S. and Parkinson, R.M. 2013 The indigenous Aetas of Bataan, Philippines: Extraordinary genetic origins, modern history and land rights. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 34: 292-306.
Radcliffe, S.A. forthcoming. The Difference Indigeneity Makes: Socio-natures, knowledges and contested policy. In M Raftopoulos and M Coletta (eds.) Provincializing Nature: Multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in Latin America. London, ILAS.

Sorted by citations

Mining indigenous territories: Consensus, tensions and ambivalences in the Salar de Atacama
Lorca, M., Olivera Andrade, M., Escosteguy, M., Köppel, J., Scoville-Simonds, M., & Hufty, M. (2022) · The Extractive Industries and Society · doi:10.1016/j.exis.2022.101047 · Cited by 62 · see citing works
At the intersection of place, gender, and ethnicity: changes in female circumcision among Kenyan Maasai
Van Bavel, H. (2020) · Gender, Place & Culture · doi:10.1080/0966369x.2019.1615415 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

ФОРМИРОВAНИЕ ГОТОВНОСТИ БУДУЩИХ ПЕДAГОГОВ К ОРГAНИЗAЦИИ РAБОТЫ ПО РAЗВИТИЮ ВAЛЕОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ ШКОЛЬНИКОВ
БАЗАРБАЕВА, Ә. А., Майгельдиева, Ш. М., & ЖҮНДІБАЕВА, Т. Н. (2023) · Pedagogy and Psychology · doi:10.51889/2077-6861.2023.1.30.016
à¤šà¤¿à¤¤à¤²à¤µà¤¾à¤¨à¤¾ à¤ªà¤‚à¤šà¤¾à¤¯à¤¤ à¤¸à¤®à¤¿à¤¤à¤¿ à¤®à¥‡à¤‚ à¤®à¤¾à¤¨à¤µ à¤—à¤°à¥€à¤¬à¥€ à¤¸à¥‚à¤šà¤•à¤¾à¤‚à¤• - 2016 ( à¤à¤• à¤—à¥à¤°à¤¾à¤® à¤¸à¥à¤¤à¤°à¥€à¤¯ à¤à¥Œà¤—à¥‹à¤²à¤¿à¤• à¤…à¤§à¥à¤¯à¤¯à¤¨ )
Gaurav, S. K., & Swarnkar, P. (2017) · International research journal of multidisciplinary studies
FEATURES AND DIFFERENCES OF ADEQUATE AND EQUIVALENT TRANSLATION
Кенжебaевa, У., Nadirova, G. E., & Seitmetova, Z. (2018) · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Коммуникaтивно- прaгмaтический aнaлиз дипломaтических бумaг (нa основе вербaльных нот)
Кaмирдиновa, Н., & Кaлиевa, Ш. С. (2018) · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
DETERMINING QUALITY REQUIREMENTS AT THE UNIVERSITIES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION
Mustafa, N. H., Kelesbayev, D., & Alibekova, Z. D. (2018) · The Journal of Economic Research & Business Administration · doi:10.26577/be-2018-2-2141

Authors: Radcliffe, S. A.
Affiliations: University of Cambridge (GB)
Corresponding author: Radcliffe, Sarah A.
ORCID: Radcliffe, Sarah A.
Venue: Progress in Human Geography
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2016-07-10
Volume: 41
Issue: 2
Pages: 220-229
ISSN: 0309-1325 (ISSN-L)
1477-0288
DOI: 10.1177/0309132515612952
OpenAlex: W2268046543
Cited by: 163
References: 71
Citations by year: 2026: 15 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 5
FWCI: 11.23
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Progress in Human Geography (publishedVersion)
Apollo (University of Cambridge) (acceptedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
Keywords: indigeneity, indigenous peoples, critical geography, settler colonialism, colonial present, Indigenous ontologies, more-than-human, relationality, inequality, subjectivity, power, knowledge production, coloniality

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

Geography and indigeneity I: Indigeneity, coloniality and knowledge

Abstract

Integrity signals

Claims the paper makes

Claims other papers make about this one

Self-check

Cites

Cited by

Related

Record

About these checks