Gathering of the Clouds: Attending to Indigenous understandings of time and climate through songspirals

Wright, Sarah; Suchet‐Pearson, Sandie; Lloyd, Kate; Burarrwanga, Laklak; Ganambarr, Ritjilili; Ganambarr-Stubbs, Merrkiyawuy; Ganambarr, Banbapuy; Maymuru, Djawundil

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.05.017

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“…From this perspective, there is no universalized, abstract notion of resilience because resilience is inherently situated in a relational web of connections across time and space. They also demonstrate for Indigenous Yolngu people in Australia, weather is not a 'natural' phenomena that is separated from 'culture' and call for an "embodied, emotional, affective experience" (p. 297) on weather and climate [30]. The importance of local scale practice has been widely acknowledged in resilience science [26,31].…”

Section: Situated Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonizing Methodologies, Situated Resilience, and Country: Insights from Tayal Country, Taiwan

Chen

2020

Sustainability

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This paper addresses the methodological challenges of working with Indigenous peoples in the Anthropocene. Drawing from the author’s geographical fieldwork with Tayal people, one of sixteen nationally recognized Indigenous groups in Taiwan, it argues that ontological shift is required in the dominant ways of thinking about resilience research. After reviewing a well-adopted Australian custom called ‘Acknowledgement of Country’, the paper addresses the concept of Indigenizing methodology and mobilizing the concepts of ‘Country’ and ‘situated resilience’ in Tayal settings. Finally, the paper proposes methodological principles for better engaging Indigenous knowledge in a more-than-human world on an ethical and constructive basis, as well as its implications for resilience research.

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Section: Situated Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonizing Methodologies, Situated Resilience, and Country: Insights from Tayal Country, Taiwan

Chen

2020

Sustainability

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“…In sharing in this way, we join other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander thinkers and collectives (Bawaka et al, 2019a, 2019b, 2020; Ngurra et al, 2019; Martin & Mirraboopa, 2003; Patrick, 2015; Yunkaporta, 2019), and Indigenous people more broadly (Cajete, 2000; Larsen & Johnson, 2017; Stewart‐Harawira, 2005). Like them, we highlight the need to learn from stories and Law/Lore of place and, most importantly, to change thinking and behaviour based on what we learn.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Creation, destruction, and COVID: Heeding the call of country, bringing things into balance

Smith¹,

Smith²,

Daley

et al. 2020

Geographical Research

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On Gumbaynggirr Country (mid‐north coast New South Wales, Australia), an act of violence against the sacredness of life and Country resulted in Wirriiga, the Two Sisters, making the sea. When the waters rose, the people made their way back to their homeland by following a gut‐string bridge made by Dunggiirr, the Koala Brothers. While the people were on the bridge, mischievous Baalijin, the eastern quoll, threatened to chop it down and made waves that nearly washed them off. Baalijin challenges complacency and forces change, and on that understanding in this article we consider what it means to be living this present time of instability and changes wrought by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19); ours is a perspective grounded in story and Gumbaynggirr Law/Lore. We write as Yandaarra, a research collective guided by the Old Fellas (ancestors) and led by Aunty Shaa Smith, storyholder for Gumbaynggirr Country, and her daughter Neeyan Smith, a young Gumbaynggirr woman. Learning from a Gumbaynggirr‐led understanding of COVID‐19—as one manifestation of Baalijin and relationships fallen out of balance—re‐situates the pandemic in wider and longer histories of colonisation and destructive patterns of existence and broken agreements. Those learnings prompt us to call for Juungambala—work involved in setting things right as a way to heal. Let Baalijin and COVID‐19 be the wake‐up call that forces the change that Country (and we) need.

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“…Along with island ecologies, probably the most high-profile illustration of this in contemporary Anthropocene thinking is the widespread celebration of Indigenous islanders’ own Correlational abilities (Chandler and Reid, 2019; Pugh, 2018; Suliman et al, 2019; Wright et al, 2020). Throughout international policy-making and academic literature today, Indigenous islanders are regularly characterised through their capacities for Correlation seen as a vital attribute for survival in the Anthropocene.…”

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confidence: 99%

Anthropocene islands: There are only islands after the end of the world

Chandler

Pugh

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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Many Anthropocene scholars provide us with the key take home message that they are writing ‘after the end of the world’. Not because they are writing about apocalypse, but because they are engaging the Anthropocene after the profound crisis of faith in Western modernity which has swept across academia in recent decades. Here the dominant problematic of contemporary Anthropocene thinking has rapidly turned away from modernity’s human/nature divide to that of ‘relational entanglements’. Thus, Anthropocene scholarship is taking a particular interest in geographical forms and cultures which are held to bring this problematic to the fore for more intensive interrogation. In this article, we examine how the figure of the island as a liminal and transgressive space has facilitated Anthropocene thinking, working with and upon island forms and imaginations to develop alternatives to hegemonic, modern, ‘mainland’, or ‘one world’ thinking. Thus, whilst islands, under modern frameworks of reasoning, were reductively understood as isolated, backward, dependent, vulnerable, and in need of saving by others, the island is being productively re-thought in and for more recent Anthropocene thinking. We explain how islands have shifted from the margins in a number of international debates, becoming key sites for understanding relational entanglements, enabling alternative forms of thought and practice in the Anthropocene.

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Gathering of the Clouds: Attending to Indigenous understandings of time and climate through songspirals

Cited by 60 publications

References 51 publications

Decolonizing Methodologies, Situated Resilience, and Country: Insights from Tayal Country, Taiwan

Decolonizing Methodologies, Situated Resilience, and Country: Insights from Tayal Country, Taiwan

Creation, destruction, and COVID: Heeding the call of country, bringing things into balance

Anthropocene islands: There are only islands after the end of the world

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