“Reclaim, rename, reoccupy”: Decolonizing place and the reclaiming of PKOLS

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorRose-Redwood, Reuben
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-30T19:43:24Z
dc.date.available2025-01-30T19:43:24Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe naming of places is one of the primary ways in which the spatial imaginaries of colonialism have been entrenched within the spaces of everyday life in settler-colonial societies. Consequently, the reclaiming of Indigenous toponymies has become a key strategy for decolonizing space and place in the neocolonial present, thereby revalorizing place-based Indigenous ontologies and challenging the neocolonial state’s assertions of authority over geographical naming practices. This article examines the efforts of Indigenous peoples in W̱SÁNEĆ and Lekwungen Territories to reclaim their “storyscapes” through the renaming of PKOLS, a mountain known by the settler society as Mount Douglas in Saanich, British Columbia. In doing so, this study highlights how the reassertion of Indigenous ontologies of place calls into question the white supremacist logic embedded in the commemorative landscapes of settler colonialism as part of the broader struggle for Indigenous self-determination.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.identifier.citationRose-Redwood, R. (2016). “Reclaim, rename, reoccupy”: Decolonizing place and the reclaiming of PKOLS. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 15(1), 187–206. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v15i1.1215
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v15i1.1215
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/21034
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectdecolonization
dc.subjectIndigenous geographies
dc.subjectPKOLS
dc.subjectplace naming
dc.subjectsettler colonialism
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Geography
dc.title“Reclaim, rename, reoccupy”: Decolonizing place and the reclaiming of PKOLS
dc.typeArticle

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
rose-redwood_reuben_ACME_2016.pdf
Size:
16.13 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.62 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Faculty and Staff Publications
 
University of Victoria Libraries

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.