Gatty Rewind Podcast

In the first ever episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast, Michael Kirkpatrick Miller sits down with Rebakah Minarchek, to discuss her Gatty Lecture, “Challenging the Map: Indigenous Resistance to Maps as an Object of Power.” Rebakah spent 20 months doing field work in Indonesia, and she draws on the case of the Kesepuhan Adat Banten Kidul indigenous group in southwest Java, Indonesia. Her research follows several communities in West Java as they navigate participatory mapping efforts in response to Indonesian legal changes that promise to turn over government-claimed forests to the country’s indigenous groups. Michael and Rebakah talk about Rebakah’s dissertation, her future projects, and her argument that "participatory" or "counter" mapping with the assistance of outside actors is no longer the only route to territorial claims for indigenous groups as they produce their own version of cartographic "truth."

Welcome to the Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast! The Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast comes from the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, the first "season" of which will include around 24 interviews with leading scholars and researchers working in and around the region of Southeast Asia. These scholars have come to Cornell to give a "Gatty Lecture" at the Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia. Those lectures happen every Thursday in Ithaca, NY, and are free and open to the public. Conversations will explore the language, history, culture, religions, arts, politics, and more of Southeast Asia. We hope you enjoy the conversation!