cultural geographies essay: Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories

This essay considers the politics of describing Indigenous peoples as ghostly or haunting presences. Focusing on the history of haunting tropes in Canadian cultural production and the recent re-emergence of the spectral Indigenous figure in, among other places, a wilderness park in southwestern Brit...

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Published in:Cultural geographies 2008-07, Vol.15 (3), p.383-393
Main Author: Cameron, Emilie
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Canadian culture
Culture
Folklore
Geographers
Geography
Ghosts
Indigenous peoples
Mobilization
Native peoples
Politics
Popular culture
Postcolonialism
Power
Rhetorical figures
Spectra
Wilderness
Wilderness areas
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subjects Canadian culture
Culture
Folklore
Geographers
Geography
Ghosts
Indigenous peoples
Mobilization
Native peoples
Politics
Popular culture
Postcolonialism
Power
Rhetorical figures
Spectra
Wilderness
Wilderness areas
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