Collaborations of Biocultural Hope: Community Science Against Industrialisation in Northwest Australia

Wergin, Carsten

doi:10.1080/00141844.2016.1169203

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“…Resulting conflicts over "extraction vs. preservation" have activated new and situated debates about the future of the region (cf. Wergin 2018).…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Listening “Care-Fully”: Acoustemologies of Hope in the Face of Human-Made Environmental Degradation

Wergin¹,

Mulligan²

2021

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The article explores a means through which eco-acoustic engagements with the environment can inspire hope in the face of human-made environmental degradation. Based on a discussion of entangled ethnographic experiences in Germany and Australia, the author shows how listening "care-fully" to people and places can foster new forms of collaboration that allow for alternative imaginings of the "buen vivir" and contest the modernist rationale and related dwellings of allegedly objective matters of fact -in this case, the exploration of natural resources through the controversial technology of fracking on sacred Aboriginal land.

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“…Resulting conflicts over "extraction vs. preservation" have activated new and situated debates about the future of the region (cf. Wergin 2018).…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Listening “Care-Fully”: Acoustemologies of Hope in the Face of Human-Made Environmental Degradation

Wergin¹,

Mulligan²

2021

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“…Supposedly progressive measures like corporate social responsibility may serve as an excellent tool of divide and rule (Knudsen ). Yet, in what the authors clearly see as a model of anthropological engagement, they offer one case from Australia where the slow work of weaving together local knowledge with the state of the art in environmental impact assessment allows a local indigenous group to defeat those threatening their lands on their own terms (Wergin ).…”

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European social anthropology in 2018: an increasingly recursive public

Hughes

2019

Soc Anthropol

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In 2018, social anthropology finds itself increasingly concerned with its technical, legal and political conditions of possibility. The long‐term effects of austerity, financialisation and the technological transformation of media on teaching, research and publishing have led to intense struggles over the labour and property regimes underpinning the discipline. In responding to these challenges, anthropologists seem to be re‐conceptualising their own personhood and labour through the diverse conceptualisations of their interlocutors. However, it is also important to remember what makes social anthropology and its unique professional challenges but a small facet of a larger human condition. By way of conclusion, I offer kinship (the public's constitutive other) as one potential means of grappling with the limitations of social anthropology's own publicity.

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The “White Magic” of Modernity: Retracing Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Settler-Colonialist Australia

Wergin¹

2017

Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses

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Collaborations of Biocultural Hope: Community Science Against Industrialisation in Northwest Australia

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Listening “Care-Fully”: Acoustemologies of Hope in the Face of Human-Made Environmental Degradation

Listening “Care-Fully”: Acoustemologies of Hope in the Face of Human-Made Environmental Degradation

European social anthropology in 2018: an increasingly recursive public

The “White Magic” of Modernity: Retracing Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Settler-Colonialist Australia

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