Unsettling Geography: Enacting the Politics of Indigenous Ontologies

Indigenous ontologies are multiple, place-specific, fluid, irreducible, and complex. The recognition that multiple ontologies exist, overlap, and interact, should unsettle geographical disciplinary thought. Using the praxis of ‘unsettling’ this article examines how Indigenous ontologies critically challenge how relationalities, place, and knowledge production are often understood by geographers. Drawing on Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latinx geographical scholarship, it argues for different ways of ‘doing’ geography that enable the transformative practices of resisting colonising university institutions, working beyond critique to advance hopeful alternatives, promoting (and working through the complex implications of) self-determination, and advocating for multispecies justice.