The Language of Secret Proof: Indigenous Truth and Representation - Couverture souple

Kolowratnik, Nina Valerie

 
9783956790973: The Language of Secret Proof: Indigenous Truth and Representation
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3956790979 ISBN 13 : 9783956790973
Editeur : Sternberg Press, 2019

Synopsis

New spatial notational systems for protecting and regaining Indigenous lands in the United States.

In The Language of Secret Proof, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik challenges the conditions under which Indigenous rights to protect and regain traditional lands are currently negotiated in United States legal frameworks. This tenth volume in the Critical Spatial Practice series responds to the urgent need for alternative modes of evidentiary production by introducing an innovative system of architectural drawing and notation.

Kolowratnik focuses on the double bind in which Native Pueblo communities in the United States find themselves when they become involved in a legal effort to reclaim and protect ancestral lands; the process of producing evidence runs counter to their structural organization around oral history and cultural secrecy. The spatial notational systems developed by Kolowratnik with Hemish tribal members from northern New Mexico and presented in this volume are an attempt to produce evidentiary documentation that speaks Native truths while respecting demands on secrecy. These systems also attempt to instigate a dialogue where there currently is none, working to deconstruct the fixed opposition between secrecy and disclosure within Western legal systems.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nina Valerie Kolowratnik is an architect and researcher currently based in Vienna. Her practice is situated in the context of forced migration and cultural claims to territory and develops spatial notational systems that operate within human rights debates. Since 2014 she has been teaching graduate courses on borderlands, migration, and counter-narratives at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Technische Universität Wien.

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Éditeur
Sternberg Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3956790979
ISBN 13 
9783956790973
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
152
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