ABSTRACT
This volume brings together the disciplines of geography, sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, and heritage conservation. We challenge disciplinary boundaries to stress the importance of interdisciplinarity in contemporary scholarship. This approach provides a venue for co-production of knowledge that reconnects local/Indigenous relations to the landscape, and diversifies the philosophy of human-land relations. Chapters in the volume feature publicly engaged research in social and environmental justice movements that aim to empower local collaborators through community participation. All chapters in this proposed volume focus on communities drastically transformed by colonialism. The volume presents novel contributions on how applied scholarship and collaborative engagements could work for Indigenous and descendant communities. The edited volume gathers publications by scholars working directly with descendant and/or Indigenous communities, with particular emphasis on the empowering ability of the landscape. Hence, we are enriching the knowledge of landscape; we are changing the landscape of knowledge.
