Visiting Memorial Tree. Micro-geopolitics of an Evenki place composed and performed

• Published in: Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
• Main Author: Fondahl, Gail
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Centre d'Etudes Mongoles & Sibériennes / École Pratique des Hautes Études 2018
• Subjects: autochtones; Évenk; Sibérie; Baïkal; identité; re-territorialisation; identités territoriales; indigenous; Evenki; Siberia; re-territorialization; identity; place-based identities; litt; hist; Venus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.3337; http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/3337

In this paper I explore how the Evenki of southeast Siberia resist place-annihilation caused by both the direct actions of resource development and the indirect effects of formal education that cause a decline of indigenous place-based knowledge. I argue that they do so by the production and present...