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Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) and the Protection of Cultural Landscapes 
Convenors:
Brian Thom (University of Victoria)
Jennifer Argan (University of Victoria)
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Discussant:
Justine Townsend (University of Guelph)
Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Thursday 28 October, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) provide a powerful mechanism to centre Indigenous-led stewardship initiatives that foreground cultural sites and landscapes. We will attend to the ways the cultural knowledge, languages, and practices entangle IPCAs with cultural landscapes.

Long Abstract:

This session will explore the ways culturally significant sites and landscapes are entangled with Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) frameworks. While many large-scale conservation efforts centre protecting the environment as a core rationale for their efforts, Indigenous peoples often foreground cultural values, knowledges and governance alongside ecological issues as key criteria for land and sea protection. Central to Indigenous land protection is understanding the importance of continued relationships people have with the land, which are exemplified and maintained through discourses like oral narratives and place names, and through embodied actions. These places form a network, a cultural landscape which collects individual experiences yet underlines a specific society's shared ontological and epistemological relations with the land. Cultural sites, sacred sites, and cultural landscapes are thus intimately entangled with Indigenous-led land stewardship through IPCAs. IPCAs also centre a different dynamic of law, policy and practicalities than standard state approaches to heritage or archaeological site protection and management, which often facilitate the destruction of these places.

Panelists are invited to share insights into how IPCAs are entangled with the protection of cultural landscapes through a research focus on cultural knowledge, languages, and practices, including place names, private knowledge of sacred sites, and embodied and emplaced oral traditions. We are interested in the role of IPCAs in the protection of cultural landscapes, and how the IPCA framework and goals can support Indigenous knowledge and governance towards better relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and the land.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 28 October, 2021, -
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