« Why consult with indigenous peoples when it’s only about recognising them? Abbott is from circa 1885
Decolonising is about engaging: Ravi de Costa, Tom Clark, ‘On the responsibility to engage: non-Indigenous peoples in settler states’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2015 »

Decolonising is about reorganising: Marisa Elena Duarte, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, ‘Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies’, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 53, 5-6, 2015, pp. 677-702

04Aug15

Abstract: For at least half a century, catalogers have struggled with how to catalog and classify Native American and Indigenous peoples materials in library, archive, and museum collections. Understanding how colonialism works can help those in the field of knowledge organization appreciate the power dynamics embedded in the marginalization of Native American and Indigenous peoples materials through standardization, misnaming, and other practices. The decolonizing methodology of imagining provides one way that knowledge organization practitioners and theorists can acknowledge and discern the possibilities of Indigenous community-based approaches to the development of alternative information structures.


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