scholarly journals Indigenous Knowledges Driving Technological Innovation

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 241-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
The Hi‘iaka Working Group
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Geospatial Technologies ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Critical Step

This policy brief explores the use and expands the conversation on the ability of geospatial technologies to represent Indigenous cultural knowledge. Indigenous peoples’ use of geospatial technologies has already proven to be a critical step for protecting tribal self-determination. However, the ontological frameworks and techniques of Western geospatial technologies differ from those of Indigenous cultures, which inevitably lead to mistranslation and misrepresentation when applied to cultural knowledge. The authors advocate the creation of new technologies that are more conducive to Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies in an effort to break down the barriers to the expression and preservation of cultural heritage and cultural survival.

Indigenous Planning: From Forced Assimilation to Self-determination

2021 ◽  
pp. 088541222110266
Author(s):  
Michael Hibbard
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Indigenous Planning ◽  
Indigenous Land Rights ◽  
Indigenous Land

Interest in Indigenous planning has blossomed in recent years, particularly as it relates to the Indigenous response to settler colonialism. Driven by land and resource hunger, settler states strove to extinguish Indigenous land rights and ultimately to destroy Indigenous cultures. However, Indigenous peoples have persisted. This article draws on the literature to examine the resistance of Indigenous peoples to settler colonialism, their resilience, and the resurgence of Indigenous planning as a vehicle for Indigenous peoples to determine their own fate and to enact their own conceptions of self-determination and self-governance.

Part II Group Identity, Self-Determination, and Relations with States, Ch.6 The UNDRIP and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Existence, Cultural Integrity and Identity, and Non-Assimilation: Articles 7(2), 8, and 43

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hohmann Jessie
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
Cultural Entities

This chapter focuses on the rights to identity, existence, and non-assimilation in Articles 7(2), 8, and 43, which together enshrine rights to the protection of indigenous peoples' continued survival and existence, both physically as individuals and as cultural entities in accordance with levels of human dignity and well-being. Indigenous peoples pressed for the inclusion of such principles in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in the recognition that pre-existing international, regional, and national laws had failed to protect their survival as communities with distinct cultures, or recognise them as distinct peoples. The three provisions studied in this chapter reflect this central concern of indigenous group/cultural survival and flourishing as peoples. As such, the final agreed text of Articles 7(2), 8, and 43 must be seen as containing norms aimed at the development of existing international law, which would protect and confirm indigenous collectivities in ways not currently recognised or only now emerging.

scholarly journals Indigene Völker und Landrechte : ein Überblick

1988 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-176
Author(s):  
L. T. Søftestad
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Cultural Heterogeneity ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
The Future ◽  
Indigenous Human Rights ◽  
Special Rights

Abstract. The paper focuses on indigenous peoples, their present Situation and prospects for the future. While emphasizing the cultural heterogeneity of indigenous peoples worldwide, the paper at the same time Stresses certain basic similarities especially as concerns their relation with land. It argues that in order for indigenous cultures to regain control of their own future, necessary recognition of their special rights to land as well as acceptance of some form of self-determination is mandatory. The ongoing work on securing these rights by indigenous and non-indigenous NGO's and within the UN and ILO is discussed. It is argued that this work on indigenous human rights must continue and that increased international concern is necessary in order to secure to indigenous peoples their basic and necessary human rights.

Realisation of the right to self-determined development and the protection of indigenous women against discrimination in Tanzania

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Zacharia Matinda
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Central Pillar ◽  
The Right

The UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in 2007, marking the culmination of thorough negotiations, lobbying and advocacy involving indigenous peoples’ representatives as key actors. Among other rights, the UNDRIP affirms the right to self-determination for indigenous peoples. Also referred to as the right to self-determined development, the right to self-determination, as stated in the UNDRIP, encompasses indigenous communities’ rights to determine their development trajectories. To indigenous peoples, the significance of the right to self-determination includes the promotion of cultural distinctiveness, which is central to their survival as communities. However, women’s rights scholars and activists are sceptical about the emancipatory potential of realising the right to self-determination for indigenous women. In contrast, exercising this right might also entail the perpetuation of gender-based violence and other forms of discrimination, thus heightening women’s fragility and subordination among indigenous communities and beyond. Using UNDRIP and other relevant international and regional human-rights instruments as vantage points, this paper seeks to juxtapose the implementation of the right to self-determination and the realisation of indigenous women’s rights in Tanzania. The article posits that the protection of indigenous women’s rights should form the central pillar of the enjoyment of the right to self-determination. This is because the cultural survival, vitality and continuity of indigenous peoples’ distinctiveness largely hinges on respect for the rights of indigenous women.

Food Sovereignty, Justice, and Indigenous Peoples

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Powys Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Wild Rice ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Collective Self

Indigenous peoples often claim that colonial powers, such as settler states, violate Indigenous peoples’ collective self-determination over their food systems, or food sovereignty. Violations of food sovereignty are often food injustices. Yet Indigenous peoples claim that one of the solutions to protecting food sovereignty involves the conservation of particular foods, from salmon to wild rice. This chapter advances an argument that claims of this kind advance particular theories of food sovereignty and food injustice that are not actually grounded in static conceptions of Indigenous cultures; instead, such claims offer important contributions for understanding how settler colonial domination is a form of injustice that undermines key relationships that support Indigenous collective self-determination as an adaptive capacity.

Part II Substantive Aspects, Ch.18 Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorough Dalee Sambo ◽  
Wiessner Siegfried
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
World Order ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Culturally Grounded ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ways Of Life

This chapter explores Indigenous peoples’ culture and cultural heritage, a global treasure in urgent need for safeguarding and space for flourishing. It arrives at four conclusions. First, Indigenous peoples’ rights are essentially culturally grounded and culturally bounded. They are intended to sustain and intensify the colours of the tapestry of global cultural diversity. Second, Indigenous cultural heritage encompasses a wide variety of tangible and intangible elements. To effectively safeguard them, a holistic definition is needed. Third, the right to self-determination empowers Indigenous peoples to define their identity through their own interpretation, continuation, or modification of their ways of life. Lastly, access to and use of their traditional lands, territories, and resources is essential to the survival and flourishing of Indigenous cultural heritage. Other manifestations of their culture are to be safeguarded as well, cherishing their traditions and values in the quest for an inclusive world order of human dignity.

Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

2018 ◽  
pp. 618-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maivân Clech Lâm
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Historical Antecedents

This chapter compares and contrasts the separate UN regimes of rights for minorities and for indigenous peoples: their historical antecedents; the conditions and actors behind the emergence of the present regimes; their foundational texts and enabling mechanisms; their common as well as divergent goals. The chapter highlights minorities’ pursuit of equality and non-discrimination. Indigenous peoples, on the other hand, use the normative tool of self-determination, which they hope will help them maintain or regain their traditional lands, territories, and resources that have sustained their physical and cultural survival but are endangered by globalization. The two sets of goals, while appreciably different, are not mutually exclusive; both assert the rights to be equal to and different or separate from dominant populations.

scholarly journals RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION FOR THE KNOWLEDGE, CONSERVATION AND VALORIZATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN SICILY

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W15 ◽  
pp. 247-254
Author(s):  
A. Cardaci ◽  
A. Versaci
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reverse Engineering ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Digital Equipment

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> In our time, new technologies are progressively more and more approaching the cultural heritage's world. The opportunity to obtain – quickly and in a non-invasive way – virtual models of ancient sites, monuments and objects, using data taken by photo-modelling, digital photogrammetry or laser scanning techniques, offers new possibilities for their proper documentation, monitoring, physical conservation, restoration, archiving and valorization. Moreover, reverse engineering techniques allow a deeper understanding of architectural artefacts and collections by increasing their communication, display and interpretation. By showing a number of experiences related to the rich and famous archaeological heritage of Sicily Island, this paper intends to highlight how the use of new digital equipment and methodologies can be of great benefit for its safeguarding, representation, promotion and enjoyment.</p>

scholarly journals CULTURAL HERITAGE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES: THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN PRESERVING, RESTORING AND DISSEMINATING CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Joubert ◽  
K Biernacka
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Research Outcomes ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
The Right

This article focuses on the role of new technology in the preservation, restoration and dissemination of cultural knowledge illustrated by the example of the ‘Hoffmann Collection of Cultural Knowledge’ (HC-CK). Some background information on the conceptualisation and aims of the project are given in the introduction. New technologies as an integral part of research, preservation, restoration and presentation are then discussed. The focus of the discussion in the second part will be on the inclusion of new technology as an essential part of research outputs, on the powerful capacities of intermediality as observed in the ‘Hoffmann Collection of Cultural Knowledge’ and on an example of a digitally created space (database) where all genera of primary and secondary productions meet to offer researchers the possibility to convene multiple places. This article finally suggests that it is the right time to connect the astounding predisposition of new technologies in the form of digital media to reshape the unique spaces of research and the dissemination of research outcomes.

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