Indigenous Peoples Knowledges and Rights Commission - Mission Statement

To create a network within geography which allows Indigenous and non-Indigenous geographers working with and for Indigenous communities to share their research and experiences with each other and the discipline as a whole.

To encourage and mentor young scholars, particularly Indigenous scholars, in pursuing geography as a career.

To encourage and foster geographic research for and with Indigenous communities with the long-range goal of bringing the research needs of these communities to the attention of the discipline.

For more information on the Commission, please e-mail ipkrc@earthlink.net.

Theme Issue of Geographical Research on
Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Knowledges

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CONTENTS

Creating Anti-colonial Geographies: Embracing Indigenous Peoples' Knowledges and Rights
JAY T. JOHNSON, GARTH CANT, RICHARD HOWITT and EVELYN PETERS

Re/placing Native Science: Indigenous Voices in Contemporary Constructions of Nature
JAY T. JOHNSON and BRIAN MURTON

Can You Hear us Now? Voices from the Margin: Using Indigenous Methodologies in Geographic Research
RENEE PUALANI LOUIS

Maps Narratives and Trails: Performativity, Hodology and Distributed Knowledges in Complex Adaptive Systems - an Approach to Emergent Mapping
DAVID TURNBULL

An Interwoven Learning Exchange: Transforming Research-Teaching Relationships in the Top End, Northern Australia
SARAH WRIGHT, SANDIE SUCHET-PEARSON and KATE LLOYD

Ways of Belonging: Reconciliation and Adelaide's Public Space Indigenous Cultural Markers
GAVIN MALONE

Corporate Social Responsibility, Supply-chains and Saami Claims: Tracing the Political in the Finnish Forestry Industry
REBECCA LAWRENCE

An Indigenous Perspective on National Parks and Sámi Reindeer Management in Norway
JAN ÅGE RISETH

Postcolonial Conservation and Kiekie Harvests at Morere New Zealand - Abstracting Indigenous Knowledge from Indigenous Polities
BRAD COOMBES

(Re)asserting Indigenous Rights and Jurisdictions within a Politics of Place: Transformative Nature of Native Title Negotiations in South Australia
PARRY AGIUS, TOM JENKIN, SANDY JARVIS, RICHIE HOWITT and RHIÂN WILLIAMS

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