My current research interests concern the broad area of Indigenous peoples' cultural survival with specific regard to the areas of resource management, political activism at the national and international levels and the philosophies and politics of place which underpin the drive for cultural survival.  Much of my work is comparative in nature and has focused predominately on New Zealand, Australia and North America. For more information, please visit my research page.

Geog 370 – Introduction to Cultural Geography

Geog 571 – Exploring Oceania

Johnson, Jay T. forthcoming. Dancing into place: the role of the powwow within urban Indigenous communities. In “Indigenizing Modernity”: Indigenous Urbanization in International Perspective, edited by E. Peters and C. Anderson. UBC Press p. 316-323.

Larsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson. 2012. In between worlds: place, experience, and research in Indigenous geography. Journal of Cultural Geography 29 (1): 1-15.

Larsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson. 2012. Towards an "open" sense of place: Geography and the question of being. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102 (3): 632-646.

Coombes, Brad, Jay T. Johnson and Richard Howitt. 2011. Indigenous Geographies I: Mere resource conflicts? The complexity in Indigenous land and environmental claims. Progress in Human Geography (On-line First).

Johnson, Jay T. and Michael Yellow Bird. 2011. Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival. In Handbook on International Social Work: Human Rights, Development, and the Global Profession, edited by L. Healy and R. Link. Oxford: Oxford University Press p. 208-213.

Coombes, Brad, Nicole Gombay, Jay T. Johnson and Wendy S. Shaw. 2011. The challenges of and from Indigenous Geographies: Implications for openly transcultural research. In The Companion to Social Geography, edited by R. Panelli. Oxford: Blackwell p. 472-489.

Johnson, Jay T. 2010. Place-based learning and knowing: A critical pedagogy grounded in Indigeneity. GeoJournal (On-line First).

Johnson, Jay T. 2010. Indigeneity’s challenges to the settler-state: decentering the ‘imperial binary’. In Making Space: Settler-colonial perspectives on land, place and identity, edited by T. B. Mar and P. Edmonds. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan UK. P. 273-294.

Johnson, Jay T. 2008. Kitchen Table Discourse: negotiating the ‘Tricky Ground’ of Indigenous research. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 32 (3): 127-137.

Johnson, Jay T. 2008. Indigeneity’s challenges to the white settler-state: creating a thirdspace for dynamic citizenship. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 33 (1): 29-52.

Johnson, Jay T., and Brian Murton. 2007. Re/placing Native Science: Indigenous voices in contemporary constructions of nature. Geographical Research 45 (2):121-129.

Papers in Preparation

Johnson, Jay T. and Soren Larsen. A Deeper Sense of Place: Stories and Journeys of Indigenous-Academic Collaboration. An edited volume for Oregon State University Press.

Coombes, Brad, Johnson, Jay T. and Richard Howitt. Indigenous geographies II: the aspirational spaces in postcolonial politics – reconciliation, belonging and social provision. Progress in Human Geography

William R. Price and Jay T. Johnson. Didgeridoos and tour guides: a content analysis of Aboriginal images on Australian government tourism websites. Australian Geographer