Indigenous Space Research Articles

Imagined geographies: Sovereignty, indigenous space, and American Indian struggle

ABSTRACTIn this article, I seek to complicate scholars' understanding of the “modular” form of the nation‐state by examining four kinds of indigenous political space that figure in contemporary American Indian struggle in the United States: (1) “tribal” or indigenous‐nation sovereignty on reservation homelands; (2) comanagement of off‐reservation resources and sites shared between tribal, federal, and state governments; (3) national indigenous space in which Indian people exercise portable rights beyond reservations; and (4) hybrid political space in which Indian people exercise dual citizenship and assert rights as tribal citizens under treaty and other federal Indian law, as U.S. citizens under the Constitution, and as social or cultural citizens within a multicultural U.S. society.

The Use of Tropical Forest (Agroecosystems and Wild Plant Harvesting) as a Source of Food in the Bribri and Cabecar Cultures in the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica

For the Bribri and the Cabecar Indians of Costa Rica the environment is divided in two: the “near”, indigenous space; and the “far”, natural space, which they think does not belong to them. In the former, the following agroecosystems can be distinguished according to biodiversity and intensity of human activity: tropical home garden, rotating slash-and-burn agriculture, plantain polyculture, and plantain monoculture. In the “far” space, these two culturally close groups harvest wild plants observing ancestral rules, which have helped ensure a sustainable use of forest resources. Their diet is based on 84 species, of which 24 are harvested in the “far” environment (hombron, semko, platanillo, tacaco, etc.) and 60 are obtained in the “near” environment (maize, bean, cacao, manioc, etc.). Owing to acculturation, exotic species (mainly rice, sugarcane, plantain, cacao and citrus fruit) have become part of their diet and crops.

Socialisation for (Dis)empowerment? The Role of Women in African Theatrical Performances

Contemporary scholarship on gender in African society tends to be mostly preoccupied with women's disempowerment by the different forms of patriarchy. While acknowledging the privileged position ascribed to men in African society, this article attempts to challenge the predominant view of power attributed to patriarchy. The article argues that, in the indigenous African theatrical space, women exercised considerable power and authority together with, if not over, their menfolk. An exploration of African narrative performances, religious rituals and children's ‘dramatic play’ will be made to demonstrate that African women also wielded material, intellectual and ideological power.

1.1.3 Concept Exploration into an Australian Indigenous Space Launch Capability

AbstractThis paper endeavours to explore the possibility of establishing an Australian indigenous space launch capability. The paper examines a trade space made up of a series of requirements and alterables derived from a mission statement and a set of objectives. This trade space is then optimised in an effort to maximise the benefits of such a capability, in order to determine whether the proposal is worth pursuing at the next level of system design.

Commercial space and international trade rules: an assessment of the WTO's influence on the sector

This paper explores how the WTO process may affect the development of commercial space industries in Asia. It does so by examining how the ever greater reach of trade rules may constrain industrial and technology policies aimed at developing an indigenous space capability. The role of the USA is also examined, as it is the US industry that will be among the most affected by increased competition in satellite and launcher services.

Like blood in your mouth: Topographies of flamenco voice and pedagogy in Diaspora

Over the last century flamenco has crossed national, cultural, ethnic and linguistic borders, traveling from its indigenous space of Andalusia to varied performance contexts around the globe. These border crossings have catalyzed new music cultures and markets, transforming flamenco musicology, pedagogy, performance and consumption. Focusing on a small community of flamenco performers in Chicago, Illinois, this ethnographic study examines the “diaspora pedagogy” of Andalusian musician and teacher Tomás de Utrera. Facilitating the symbolic collapse of geographic space, Tomás recreates flamenco's originary musical context in Chicago. Focusing on the articulation of the flamenco voice, I posit diaspora as the principal exigency behind Tomás’ flamenco pedagogy, as well as an animating force behind his “voice of authority “ and the fledgling voices of his students.

The Idea of Indigenous People

Malgre les nombreux changements de la pratique anthropologique depuis une cinquantaine d'annees, notamment une amplitude des objets de recherche, les societes dites traditionnelles, primitives, orales, simples font toujours l'objet de l'interet privilegie des ethnologues. Si la terminologie utilisee pour designer ces societes a ete modifiee au cours du temps (afin de s'eloigner, entre autres, des theories evolutionnistes), les definitions restent encore imprecises, en particulier celle de tribu. L'expression peuple autochtone, utilisee depuis peu, laisse apparaitre une idee de morale et d'ethique mais ne peut s'appliquer qu'a des contextes particuliers, a l'instar de la notion de tribu, et peut alimenter des ideologies diverses qui pronent les liens du sang et de la terre et pour lesquelles les ethnologues ne mesurent peut-etre pas les utuilisations ambivalentes.