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Decolonizing the Map: Recentering Indigenous Mappings
Abstract
For over five centuries, cartographic map-making has played a pivotal role as a political technology of empire-building, settler colonialism, and the dispossession of Indigenous lands. Yet Indigenous peoples themselves have long engaged in their own mapping practices to share ancestral knowledge, challenge colonial rule, and reclaim Indigenous "place-worlds." Although there is now a sizable body of scholarly literature on the mapping of empire, this special issue on "Decolonizing the Map" aims to recenter Indigenous mappings and decolonial cartographies as spatial practices of world-making. In this introductory article, we provide an overview of the theory and praxis of decolonial mapping and outline the key themes of the contributions to the present special issue. Drawing upon insights from this edited collection, we conclude that decolonial mapping requires a recentering of Indigenous geographical knowledge, respect for Indigenous protocols, and the active participation of Indigenous peoples in the mapping process itself if the project of decolonizing the map is to truly move beyond the colonial cartographic frame. (English)
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- Authors
- Rose-Redwood, R., Blu Barnd, N., Lucchesi, A. H., Dias, S., & Patrick, W.
- Affiliations
- Department of Geography / University of Victoria / Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ Territories / Victoria / British Columbia / Canada
- Department of Ethnic Studies / Oregon State University / Ampinefu Band of Kalapuya Territory / Corvallis / Oregon / United States
- University of Arizona (US)
- University of Victoria (CA)
- Venue
- Cartographica
- Published
- 2020-09
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 151-162
- ISSN
- 0317-7173 (ISSN-L)
- 1911-9925
- OpenAlex
- W3091713470
- Semantic Scholar
- a1b6efe1e9382b1505f227eb30aca506e2a79e4c
- Cited by
- 136
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 36 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 25.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Historical Geography and Cartography
- Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Keywords
- decolonial cartography, Indigenous mapping, settler colonialism, Indigenous protocols, world-making
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