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@article{ Cameron2008, title = {Cultural geographies essay: Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories}, author = {Cameron, Emilie}, journal = {Cultural Geographies}, number = {3}, pages = {383-393}, volume = {15}, year = {2008}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474008091334}, urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-232206}, abstract = {This essay considers the politics of describing Indigenous peoples as ghostly or haunting presences. Focusing on the history of haunting tropes in Canadian cultural production and the recent re-emergence of the spectral Indigenous figure in, among other places, a wilderness park in southwestern British Columbia, I argue that the mobilization of haunting tropes to make sense of contemporary settler-Indigenous relations reinscribes colonial power relations and fails to account for the specific experiences and claims of Indigenous peoples. At a time when cultural geographers are contemplating the possibilities of a ‘spectral turn’, this essay asks what politics are involved in deploying a spectro-geographical approach to studies of the colonial and postcolonial.}, }