Publicomos

Réf.

43225

Type

article

Titre

Decolonizing World Heritage maps using indigenous toponyms, stories, and interpretive attributes

Langues

English

Auteurs

Palmer, Mark / Korson, Cadey

Maison d'édition

University of Toronto Press

Date

2020

Pagination de section

183-192

Titre de la revue

Cartographica

Vol. & n°

v. 55 n. 3

Mots-clés

cultural landscapes / communities / knowledge systems / indigenous peoples / management plans / maps / World Heritage / World Heritage Sites / intangible heritage / qualitative analysis / nomination forms / indigenous or traditional landscapes / geographical data

Pays mentionnés

Australia / Canada / New Zealand / United States

Résumé en anglais

Maps and GIS used for the nomination and subsequent management of UNESCO World Heritage sites have primarily served bureaucratic resource management purposes. However, bureaucratic maps offer an opportunity to represent associative cultural landscapes, intangible cultural elements, and the geographies of Indigenous peoples. Indigenous toponyms can be found on many World Heritage maps for sites located within settler societies such as New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Canada. Currently, bureaucratic heritage maps do not emphasize or even have a method for presenting the meaning and significance of Indigenous toponyms. Instead, the names are represented as static, inanimate objects void of meaning. This article presents archival evidence that bureaucratic state maps found within some UNESCO World Heritage nomination dossiers and resource management plans contain Indigenous cartographic elements that Indigenous communities could use as the basis for creating Indigital story maps.

Document joint

Palmer and Korson 2020.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)