Creating Anti-colonial Geographies: Embracing Indigenous Peoples' Knowledges and Rights

摘要

In June, 2006, an international meeting on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), Australia began a new journey for geography with the first gathering of the International Geographical Union's (IGU) newest commission on Indigenous Peoples' Knowledges and Rights. The formal launch of this new commission at the regional conference of the IGU in Brisbane, Australia, Regional Responses to Global Changes: A View from the Antipodes, was the culmination of decades of work by geographers working toward the development of what Jose Barreiro has called, 'an encompassing, innovative and pragmatic new discipline - Indigenous Geography' (Barreiro, 2004). The formation of the new commission is a significant step toward bringing 'international disciplinary attention to indigenous geographies' (Shaw et al., 2006).