Towards accountable digital geographies

Abstract

The proliferation and everywhereness of digital materialities, operations, and mediations require attention to the ways that colonial knowledge assumes access to Indigenous lands. In this commentary, I consider what an agenda for accountable digital geographies might look like. With the turn to (re)imagine the futures of geographical praxis, I invite a collective inquiry on how digital practices can work toward geographies of accountability and restitution on Indigenous lands with the aim of honoring the places, spaces, and communities in which geographical knowledge emerges. I suggest that decolonial and anticolonial methods redirect digital practices toward Land Back, re-orienting geographical knowledge to the affirmation of Indigenous life.