Pickerill, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-705X (2024) Unsettling geography: enacting the politics of indigenous ontologies. Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory, 1 (1). ISSN: 2976-8578
Abstract
Indigenous ontologies are multiple, place-specific, fluid, irreducible, and complex. The recognition that multiple ontologies exist, overlap, and interact, should unsettle geographical disciplinary thought. Using the praxis of ‘unsettling’ this article examines how Indigenous ontologies critically challenge how relationalities, place, and knowledge production are often understood by geographers. Drawing on Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latinx geographical scholarship, it argues for different ways of ‘doing’ geography that enable the transformative practices of resisting colonising university institutions, working beyond critique to advance hopeful alternatives, promoting (and working through the complex implications of) self-determination, and advocating for multispecies justice.
Mae ontolegau brodorol yn niferus, yn perthyn i leoedd penodol, yn amhendant, yn anostyngadwy, ac yn gymhleth. Dylai'r gydnabyddiaeth bod sawl ontoleg yn bodoli, yn gorgyffwrdd ac yn rhyngweithio, siglo syniadaeth ddisgyblaethol ddaearyddol. Gan ddefnyddio’r arfer o 'siglo', mae'r erthygl hon yn trin a thrafod sut mae ontolegau brodorol yn herio'n feirniadol y modd y mae perthynoldeb, lleoedd a chynhyrchu gwybodaeth yn aml yn cael eu deall gan ddaearyddwyr. Gan dynnu ar ysgolheictod daearyddol Du, Brodorol, Asiaidd a Latinx, mae'r erthygl yn dadlau o blaid gwahanol ffyrdd o 'wneud' daearyddiaeth, sy'n hwyluso arferion trawsnewidiol o wrthsefyll sefydliadau prifysgol gwladychol, gweithio y tu hwnt i feirniadaeth i hyrwyddo dewisiadau amgen llawn gobaith, hyrwyddo (ac ymdrin â goblygiadau cymhleth) hunan-benderfyniad, a siarad o blaid cyfiawnder amlrywogaethol.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 Jenny Pickerill. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (unless stated otherwise) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| Keywords: | Relationalities; Pluralversality; Political action; decolonising geography; Indigenous ontologies; place; transformative practices |
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| Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
| Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Geography and Planning |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Oct 2025 08:19 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2025 08:24 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Cardiff University Press |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Identification Number: | 10.18573/agoriad.16 |
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| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:233139 |


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