Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies

Martin, Peter R.; Armston‐Sheret, Edward

doi:10.1111/gec3.12476

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“…This now considerable body of work has explored the processes that played out as European travellers and explorers came into contact with Indigenous peoples in the field during their expeditions (Armston‐Sheret, 2023; Driver & Jones, 2009; Kennedy, 2013; Konishi et al, 2015; Shellam et al, 2016; Wisnicki, 2019). More importantly though, these literatures have also considered the roles played by Indigenous actors within the formation of various forms of knowledge during these expeditionary activities (Bravo, 1999; Martin & Armston‐Sheret, 2020; Raj, 2007; Safier, 2008; Schaffer et al, 2009). These studies have revealed that much of the vast range of information generated through exploratory processes in different parts of the world was in fact regularly produced in collaboration with local Indigenous peoples.…”

Section: Colonial Co‐optations Of Indigenous Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘deer‐men’ and the ‘bowhead‐men’: The colonial co‐optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates

Martin

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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Drawing on recent literatures that explore the complicated role of ‘Indigenous intermediaries’ within histories of geographical exploration, and bringing these into dialogue with research exposing the colonial nature of geographical knowledge, this article studies the ways in which information extracted from an Indigenous Arctic informant named Nocum was crucial in the formation of troubling geographical understandings regarding Inuit ‘origins’ and migration. The article analyses the extractive nature of the intellectual contributions offered by the American traveller and scholar William Healey Dall, and situates them amidst their troubling imperial and racialised context. The article concludes by arguing that geographers must continue to identify and reflect critically on the role of indigenous peoples within the historical (co)production of geographical knowledge, but that they must be equally attentive to the ways this knowledge was regularly used to inform and justify various forms of imperial intervention and colonial violence.

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Section: Colonial Co‐optations Of Indigenous Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘deer‐men’ and the ‘bowhead‐men’: The colonial co‐optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates

Martin

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…For this reason, Science on the Roof of the World is an inherently interdisciplinary work, skilfully weaving together ideas from geography, history, history of science, and literary criticism. In this sense, this book continues in a longer tradition in which studies of imperial-era travel have been a vital source of new theoretical and conceptual insights for geographers and an important interface between geography and other disciplines (Martin and Armston-Sheret, 2020).…”

Section: Tropes Truth and Interdisciplinaritymentioning

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Why study the history of exploration?

Armston-Sheret

2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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To some critical geographers, the history of exploration might seem an unpromising field. Colonial-era expeditions embody many of the values that most contemporary scholars seek to move away from, including racism, heroic masculinity, and imperial expansion. This reflection on Lachlan Fleetwood's important book, Science on the Roof of the World, will address one central question: 'What does the discipline of geography gain by further analysis of nineteenth century expeditions?' This is an important questionand not a new one (Barnett, 1995). In answering it, this commentary will reflect on the productive role that the history of exploration can play within contemporary geographical research.

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“…As P. R. Martin and Edward Armston-Sheret note, such work has taken postcolonial approaches "a stage further by re-examining and re-evaluating western travel and exploration with the purpose of identifying the complex array of actors who were involved in these processes." 24 We mean to work similarly. We aim to bring disparate texts together and, through the lens of critical theory, to lay out the complexities and poetics of a particular space.…”

Section: Critical Digital Editing Nineteenth-century Textsmentioning

confidence: 99%