Bounded recognition: urban planning and the textual mediation of Indigenous rights in Canada and Australia

Porter, Libby; Barry, Janice

doi:10.1080/19460171.2014.912960

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“…The two approaches to engaging Indigenous peoples in civic affairs discussed above—engagement in planning as stakeholders, and facilitating municipal‐Indigenous relations through the Indigenous Relations Division—are examples of what Porter and Barry () refer to as the “bounded recognition” of Indigenous rights, where the boundaries are set by non‐Indigenous governments. When there are Indigenous employees put in charge of the City's process, an Indigenous process is not necessarily nearer at hand.…”

Section: Lived Experience Engagement Mechanisms and Conditions Inhimentioning

confidence: 99%

“This is an Indigenous city; why don't we see it?” Indigenous urbanism and spatial production in Winnipeg

Nejad

Walker

Macdougall

et al. 2019

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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This paper examines indigeneity and spatial production in the city of Winnipeg, home to the largest urban Indigenous population in Canada. Using data from semi‐structured interviews with Indigenous inhabitants, municipal officials, and Indigenous leaders, this paper argues that the right to the city and to difference are deradicalized for urban Indigenous communities. Indigenous engagement in processes of everyday urbanism occurs through broadly participatory public consultation and through mechanisms designed by City Hall to communicate with Indigenous communities about municipal initiatives. To arrive at a more robust and meaningful Indigenous urban visibility in Canadian cities, spatial production and programming mechanisms will need to be reconstituted. Guided by the perspectives of Indigenous participants, this paper considers some of what Indigenous urbanism might yet entail. Fulfilling coexistence and reconciliation is dependent on enabling Indigenous urbanism to guide the course taken in urban governance, spatial planning, and the built environment of Canadian cities.

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Section: Lived Experience Engagement Mechanisms and Conditions Inhimentioning

confidence: 99%

“This is an Indigenous city; why don't we see it?” Indigenous urbanism and spatial production in Winnipeg

Nejad

Walker

Macdougall

et al. 2019

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…The legal duty to consult with Indigenous peoples may also become a requirement at the urban scale in coming years, as legal proceedings generate further clarity on the role of municipalities as administrative bodies of the provincial crown, stemming from the Supreme Court's 2004 decision in British Columbia on the duty to consult, and where appropriate, accommodate Indigenous rights (MacCallum Fraser and Viswanathan ). Legal touchstones like these and several others (see Belanger ) prepare the terrain for potentially larger “contact zones” for municipal governments and Indigenous peoples (Porter and Barry ).…”

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“…Libby Porter and Janice Barry () argue that the spaces of interaction between Indigenous peoples and municipal government can be conceived as the contact zone, where efforts at mutual recognition and respect for one another's worldviews, rights, governance processes, and practices occur, mediated through historic and contemporary power relations. The contact zone constrains the scope for deliberation and collaboration at a point in time, while also providing the arena within which to critically challenge and broaden that scope.…”

Section: Background and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public attitudes towards Indigeneity in Canadian prairie urbanism

Walker

Berdahl

Lashta

et al. 2017

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Prairie cities have large and growing Indigenous populations. The great resurgence of strong Indigenous cultures in Canada should foretell the impact Indigeneity will have over coming years across the full spectrum of urban geography. The study uses original 2014 survey data collected from seven prairie cities to examine the following question: What does the non‐Indigenous majority public think about increasing the role of Indigeneity in the procedural and material approaches to urbanism in prairie cities? Based on our findings we suggest that public attitudes among the non‐Indigenous populations of prairie cities are changing and becoming more positive towards trying new approaches to enabling Indigenous urbanism. Support is somewhat greater for municipal‐Indigenous governance options than for specific actions to infuse Indigeneity into the design and naming of public spaces. L'attitude du public face à l'indigénisme dans l'urbanisme des Prairies canadiennes La population indigène qui habite dans les villes des Prairies est nombreuse et grandissante. La forte recrudescence des cultures indigènes au Canada permettrait d'anticiper l'impact que l'indigénisme aura au cours des prochaines années sur l'ensemble de la géographie urbaine. Cet article propose d'explorer la question qui suit à partir des données originales d'enquête recueillies dans sept villes des Prairies en 2014: qu'est‐ce que les personnes de la majorité non indigène pensent de l'augmentation du rôle de l'indigénisme dans les démarches opérationnelles et substantielles de l'urbanisme des villes des Prairies? Les constats qui se dégagent de nos travaux montrent que l'attitude du public chez les populations non autochtones des villes des Prairies évolue et devient plus encline à essayer de nouvelles approches en matière d'urbanisme indigène. On est plutôt partisan des modes de gouvernance municipale indigène que des actions spécifiques visant à incorporer l'indigénisme dans la conception et la toponymie des espaces publics.

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“…The expansion of the ethnocratic inquiry into these areas has already begun (see : Porter and Barry 2015;Roy 2009). Using a 'grounded theorization' approach, my own work has explored the changing spatio-political positioning of these groups in rapidly expanding urban regions.…”

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Extending Ethnocracy: Reflections and Suggestions

Yiftachel

2016

CCS Journal

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As prelude to the special issue, this short piece reflects on the scholarly origins of the 'ethnocracy' concept, and comments on the arguments made by James Anderson's insightful opening article. It then outlines several concepts developed in the author's own work in later years as 'offsprings' of ethnocracy. Finally, it answers the challenge raised by Anderson by suggesting future theoretical, conceptual and empirical directions for research into ethnocratic dynamics on urban, state and global scales.

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Bounded recognition: urban planning and the textual mediation of Indigenous rights in Canada and Australia

Cited by 38 publications

References 25 publications

“This is an Indigenous city; why don't we see it?” Indigenous urbanism and spatial production in Winnipeg

“This is an Indigenous city; why don't we see it?” Indigenous urbanism and spatial production in Winnipeg

Public attitudes towards Indigeneity in Canadian prairie urbanism

Extending Ethnocracy: Reflections and Suggestions

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