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Contestations of Space: Developing a Twenty-First Century Indigenous Cartographic Practice

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Although technology is changing the way maps are made and viewed, maps themselves are not a new invention. Throughout history, communities have made maps for a variety of purposes. For western cultures, the process of creating a map is primarily a political act, as maps are used to set boundaries and limits of governmental authority. In fact, mapping was one of the colonial tools used to establish European hegemony over the ‘New’ World and to systematically move land from Indigenous to European hands.

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  1. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    Gina D. Stuart-Richard

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  1. School of Law, Leeds University, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Jennifer Hendry

  2. James E Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Melissa L. Tatum

  3. Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Miriam Jorgensen

  4. Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Aust Capital Terr, Australia

    Deirdre Howard-Wagner

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Stuart-Richard, G.D. (2018). Contestations of Space: Developing a Twenty-First Century Indigenous Cartographic Practice. In: Hendry, J., Tatum, M., Jorgensen, M., Howard-Wagner, D. (eds) Indigenous Justice. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60645-7_12

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