ABSTRACT:Anthropological critiques of development on First Nations territories increasingly conflate indigenous participation in government- and corporate-led information gathering projects with a broader resignation to neo-liberal governmentality. New government-authored resource management plans and incremental treaty agreements (e.g., short-term revenue-sharing plans and self-government measures), however, have transformed the defensive research and information-sharing strategies which characterized earlier land claims confrontations. This article explores how field mapping techniques and concepts of territory originally developed around participatory mapping and traditional use and occupancy studies have been re-systematized for the constraints and complicities of corporate-funded environmental mapping and database work. Drawing on my experience with mappers contracted to trace an alternative route for a gas pipeline proposed to bisect the traditional territories of the Gitanyow First Nation, I argue that iterative map-work methods allow First Nations experts to engage in long-term territorial politics while deferring direct confrontations and emotional investments in specific development proposals through a process I call “consignment.” This process has helped technicians working for groups like the Gitanyow to weather new uncertainties generated by the neoliberalization of resource management and territorial politics, and to safeguard key anti-colonial projects even as they are forced to defer other political goals. Contextualizing new institutional instabilities within the long history of indigenous mapping projects in British Columbia, I outline how the contingencies of map-work expose connections between technocracy, daily life, and the politics of indigeneity in the neoliberal era.

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寄售制图：新自由主义时代的原住民和地图工作

摘要：对原住民领土上发展的人类学批评越来越多地将土著参与政府和企业主导的信息收集项目与更广泛地屈服于新自由主义政府主义混为一谈。然而，新的政府制定的资源管理计划和增量条约协议（例如，短期收入分享计划和自治措施）已经改变了早期土地主张对抗的特征的防御性研究和信息共享策略。本文探讨了最初围绕参与式制图和传统使用和占用研究开发的实地制图技术和领土概念如何被重新系统化，以应对企业资助的环境制图和数据库工作的限制和共谋。根据我与被承包的地图绘制人员的经验，他们为拟将 Gitanyow 原住民传统领土一分为二的天然气管道寻找替代路线，我认为迭代地图工作方法允许原住民专家参与长期领土政治，同时推迟通过我称之为“委托”的过程，对特定的开发提案进行直接对抗和情感投资。这一过程帮助为 Gitanyow 等团体工作的技术人员应对资源管理和领土政治的新自由化带来的新不确定性，并保护关键的反殖民项目，即使他们被迫推迟其他政治目标。在不列颠哥伦比亚省土著测绘项目的悠久历史中将新的制度不稳定性背景化，