Concluding Comparatively: Discovery in the English Colonies

Miller, Robert J.; Ruru, Jacinta; Behrendt, Larissa; Lindberg, Tracey

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579815.003.0010

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“…The 47th Call to Action challenges the Doctrine of Discovery and the principle of terra nullius. The Doctrine of Discovery was used to justify European Colonization on vacant landscapes free of the religiously Christian and seemingly sophisticated man ( Miller et al, 2010 ). The terra nullius principle, similarly, self-justifies European colonization and holds that Indigenous Peoples are inferior to Europeans and therefore cannot own and cultivate land ( Asch, 2002 ).…”

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(Re)producing wilderness tourism discourses in Algonquin Provincial Park

Pludwinski

Grimwood

2021

Tourist Studies

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Particular types of nature-based tourism programs, including multi-day children’s overnight/residential summer camp canoe tripping programs in North America, often (re)produce (neo)colonial constructions of nature and the “wilderness.” The purpose of this paper is to expose how wilderness is constructed and circulated in the context of a particular summer camp’s canoe trips in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Within this paper, we identify how specific legacies of colonialism are maintained and redeployed through the practices and representations of summer camp canoe trippers. Specifically, analyses show how canoe trippers (re)produce and (re)enact the wilderness as seemingly empty, untouched, and pristine spaces. Drawing on a Foucauldian-styled discourse analysis, this research exposes recurrent power relations that normalize, re-inscribe, and enable unjust wilderness discourses on Canadian summer camp canoe trips.

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(Re)producing wilderness tourism discourses in Algonquin Provincial Park

Pludwinski

Grimwood

2021

Tourist Studies

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“…Drawing on limited perspectives in creating the framework led to use of problematic language that, in its current form, makes it unworkable in many international contexts. Three divisions by which the original criteria were sorted risk perpetuating systemic knowledge generation and use problems, particularly given northern colonial histories of knowledge appropriation (Miller et al, 2010). The following three dimensions for evaluation were delineated as (1) scientific impact, (2) learning and empowerment of participants and (3) impact for wider society; the latter labelled as ‘socio-ecological and economic’ in Table 1.…”

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“…A question unaddressed in the initially proposed framework is: easing access for whom? Indigenous scholars have criticised the possessive logic (Moreton-Robinson, 2007) of understanding from its meaning-making contextual relations, reabsorbed into commodity form as ‘intellectual property’ (Coburn et al, 2013; Miller et al, 2010; Simpson, 2001). Rich meanings of relational and situational knowledge are inherently not easily accessed, as relationships take time and context may be inalienable from land.…”

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Improving a framework for evaluating participatory science

Calyx

Finlay

2022

Evaluation

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This article proposes improvements to an open framework for evaluating participatory science, including projects framed as citizen science. An original proposed framework, while valuable in its comprehensiveness, used problematic language that makes it unworkable in many international contexts. In countries like Australia where Indigenous data sovereignty matters profoundly, language about ‘target groups’ and ‘easing access’ to knowledge can harmfully perpetuate colonial discourses. The original proposed framework is sufficiently useful that it is worth constructively revising, so critique in this article is aimed towards collaborative progression of an open framework more suitable for international use. As well as replacing ‘target groups’ with partnership approaches, we argue that ‘easing access’ to knowledge for exploitation is a frame perpetuating the colonial doctrine of discovery, proposing recovery as an alternative aligned with several international movements for social justice and sustainability.

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“…In territories occupied by indigenous peoples considered by their colonizers to stand too low on the development scale to have the capacity to own the land, the land was considered empty, waste, “legally unoccupied until the arrival of a colonial presence,” and thereby open for the taking (United Nations 2005, para. 31; Miller et al 2010; Sheehan 2012, 239). Scholars such as Andrew Fitzmaurice, Stuart Banner, Lauren Benton, and Benjamin Straumann demonstrate convincingly that the regular employment of the term terra nullius began only in the twentieth century.…”

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Dignity Takings and Dispossession in Israel

Kedar¹

2016

Law soc. inq.

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This article examines the concept of dignity takings, as developed by Bernadette Atuahene, and its applicability to the Israeli situation, focusing on takings from the Arab‐Palestinian minority in Israel. Although I find dignity takings a valuable concept, as it emphasizes the interconnections between land dispossession and the denial of human dignity, I offer some qualifications and suggestions. I then examine the applicability of the concept to the dispossession of Arabs/Palestinians in Israel through two case studies: one, a close reading of the (in)famous Ikrit villagers' dispossession; the other, an examination of the dispossession of Negev (southern Israel) Bedouin citizens of Israel, which takes place, not unlike terra nullius, simultaneously with a denial of this very taking. The article concludes that with some modifications, the concept of dignity taking applies to the situation of Arab/Palestinian citizens of Israel.

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Concluding Comparatively: Discovery in the English Colonies

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(Re)producing wilderness tourism discourses in Algonquin Provincial Park

(Re)producing wilderness tourism discourses in Algonquin Provincial Park

Improving a framework for evaluating participatory science

Dignity Takings and Dispossession in Israel

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