RT Journal Article
SR 00
A1 Palmer, Mark
A1 Korson, Cadey
T1 Decolonizing World Heritage maps using indigenous  toponyms, stories, and interpretive attributes
JF Cartographica
YR 2020
FD 2020
VO 55
IS 3
SP 183
OP 192
K1 world heritage
K1 world heritage sites
K1 cultural landscapes
K1 intangible cultural heritage
K1 communities
K1 indigenous peoples
K1 indigenous knowledge systems
K1 management plans
K1 maps
K1 indigital
K1 australia
K1 canada
K1 new zealand
K1 usa
AB 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.
PB University of Toronto Press
LK http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2491/