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Papers by Bernard Perley

Research paper thumbnail of Indigenous Conceptual Cartographies and Landscape Pedagogy: Vibrant Modalities Across Semiotic Domains

Educational linguistics, Dec 31, 2022

This chapter explores how aspects of the landscape can be incorporated in language teaching pract... more This chapter explores how aspects of the landscape can be incorporated in language teaching practices. Drawing on the area of research known as "linguistic landscape," language teachers have recently begun to see the linguistic landscape as a pedagogical resource. Jaworski and Thurlow's (2010) work broadens these ideas. They use the term semiotic landscape, which is "any (public) space with visible inscription made through deliberate human intervention and meaning making" (p. 2). In addition, we link this approach to the notion of indigenous conceptual cartographies, which we use to describe the multiple ways that indigenous teachers conceptualize language, landscape, and cosmology. This includes physical artifacts of cartographic representation such as maps, signs, and the landscape itself, as well as metaphorical cartographies such as ideas of the landscape, concepts of sustainability, and the relationships between language, landscape, and cosmology. We apply these concepts to one lesson that was organized as a narrated walking tour on the grounds of an indigenous community school, arguing that indigenous ways of learning in the landscape offer a rich experience that promotes not only language learning but also other learning that may help create a sustainable future.

Research paper thumbnail of Teaching Indigenous Canada: Learning from “Externality”

Research paper thumbnail of Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing by Michelle M. Jacob. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013. xii + 140 pp

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Aug 1, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Future imperfect

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Being There

University of Wisconsin Press eBooks, Aug 30, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon by Sarah Shulist Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 241 pp

American Anthropologist, Dec 5, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Language Revitalization

The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Nov 9, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Indigenous Translocality: Emergent Cosmogonies in the New World Order

Theory and Event, Oct 1, 2020

Abstract:Indigenous peoples have endured the transformative processes of colonization that result... more Abstract:Indigenous peoples have endured the transformative processes of colonization that resulted in varying degrees of eradication, relocation, and transformation of their communities, ecosystems, and cosmogonies. Settler-colonial erasing of Indigenous worlds has initiated over 500 years of Indigenous translocalizing strategies that enabled surviving Indigenous communities to reconfigure ancestral worlds into contemporary emergent cosmogonies. These survival strategies offer the world's populations a hopeful model of adaptation to the looming catastrophes of global warming and environmental disasters. This article reconceptualizes translocality in order to offer a corrective imaginary to remediate the slow violence of colonial imaginaries of progress and to promote hopeful futures.

Research paper thumbnail of 12. Gaming the System: Imperial Discomfort and the Emergence of Coyote Capitalism

Rutgers University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Going Native: What is Anthropology

Anthropology News, Sep 1, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Mascots, Name Calling, and Racial Slurs

Routledge eBooks, Dec 12, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Surviving the Sixth Extinction

Research paper thumbnail of Linguistic Imperialism

The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology

Research paper thumbnail of Language Revitalization

Research paper thumbnail of Living Traditions

Research paper thumbnail of A Common Cause

Research paper thumbnail of Going Native: What is Anthropology

Research paper thumbnail of Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing by Michelle M. Jacob. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013. xii + 140 pp

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of No time like the present

Manufacturing Engineer, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Defying Maliseet language death: Emergent vitalities of language, culture, & identity in Eastern Canada (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Indigenous Conceptual Cartographies and Landscape Pedagogy: Vibrant Modalities Across Semiotic Domains

Educational linguistics, Dec 31, 2022

This chapter explores how aspects of the landscape can be incorporated in language teaching pract... more This chapter explores how aspects of the landscape can be incorporated in language teaching practices. Drawing on the area of research known as "linguistic landscape," language teachers have recently begun to see the linguistic landscape as a pedagogical resource. Jaworski and Thurlow's (2010) work broadens these ideas. They use the term semiotic landscape, which is "any (public) space with visible inscription made through deliberate human intervention and meaning making" (p. 2). In addition, we link this approach to the notion of indigenous conceptual cartographies, which we use to describe the multiple ways that indigenous teachers conceptualize language, landscape, and cosmology. This includes physical artifacts of cartographic representation such as maps, signs, and the landscape itself, as well as metaphorical cartographies such as ideas of the landscape, concepts of sustainability, and the relationships between language, landscape, and cosmology. We apply these concepts to one lesson that was organized as a narrated walking tour on the grounds of an indigenous community school, arguing that indigenous ways of learning in the landscape offer a rich experience that promotes not only language learning but also other learning that may help create a sustainable future.

Research paper thumbnail of Teaching Indigenous Canada: Learning from “Externality”

Research paper thumbnail of Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing by Michelle M. Jacob. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013. xii + 140 pp

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Aug 1, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Future imperfect

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Being There

University of Wisconsin Press eBooks, Aug 30, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon by Sarah Shulist Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 241 pp

American Anthropologist, Dec 5, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Language Revitalization

The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, Nov 9, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Indigenous Translocality: Emergent Cosmogonies in the New World Order

Theory and Event, Oct 1, 2020

Abstract:Indigenous peoples have endured the transformative processes of colonization that result... more Abstract:Indigenous peoples have endured the transformative processes of colonization that resulted in varying degrees of eradication, relocation, and transformation of their communities, ecosystems, and cosmogonies. Settler-colonial erasing of Indigenous worlds has initiated over 500 years of Indigenous translocalizing strategies that enabled surviving Indigenous communities to reconfigure ancestral worlds into contemporary emergent cosmogonies. These survival strategies offer the world's populations a hopeful model of adaptation to the looming catastrophes of global warming and environmental disasters. This article reconceptualizes translocality in order to offer a corrective imaginary to remediate the slow violence of colonial imaginaries of progress and to promote hopeful futures.

Research paper thumbnail of 12. Gaming the System: Imperial Discomfort and the Emergence of Coyote Capitalism

Rutgers University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Going Native: What is Anthropology

Anthropology News, Sep 1, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Mascots, Name Calling, and Racial Slurs

Routledge eBooks, Dec 12, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Surviving the Sixth Extinction

Research paper thumbnail of Linguistic Imperialism

The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology

Research paper thumbnail of Language Revitalization

Research paper thumbnail of Living Traditions

Research paper thumbnail of A Common Cause

Research paper thumbnail of Going Native: What is Anthropology

Research paper thumbnail of Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing by Michelle M. Jacob. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013. xii + 140 pp

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of No time like the present

Manufacturing Engineer, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Defying Maliseet language death: Emergent vitalities of language, culture, & identity in Eastern Canada (review)