‘Native time’ in the white city: indigenous youth temporalities in settler-colonial space

Kidman, Joanna; MacDonald, Liana; Funaki, Hine; Ormond, Adreanne; Southon, Pine; Tomlins-Jahnkne, Huia

doi:10.1080/14733285.2020.1722312

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“…We argue that time is often taken for granted as a linear, chronological concept in the social movements literature, unless it is specifically conceptualised otherwise. An important source of alternative conceptualisations of time can be found in the literature by Indigenous scholars (Kidman et al, 2020; Mika, 2015; Rameka, 2016; Stewart-Harawira, 2005; Winter, 2019) although their work is yet to permeate the social movements literature.…”

Section: Indigenous and Climate Activist Temporalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sensations and articulations of different temporal frames are evident in this summary. Time and space and place are intertwined from a Māori perspective (Kidman et al, 2020; Mika, 2015; Rameka, 2016; Smith, 2013). The land bears traces of time: land flattened for the first settlement, stone fences for early farming, concrete pillars painted with protest slogans, evidence of Reclamation Village, including the house on the corner of the intersection, which was used by the police but is now occupied by a small number of protectors.…”

Section: Protect Ihumātao: Activism Orientated Towards Intergeneratiomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Liz was also frustrated about how decisions affecting the future had a narrow base of consultation: ‘like if the average person engaged is like 50 and white and male, like I don’t think that is fair, that that can be enough for a long-term policy’ (interview, 2018). The frame of a youth-centric future compromised by older generations diverts attention away from other groups (young and old) who are also disadvantaged by cities designed around the primacy and privilege of the car (Kidman et al, 2020; Ward et al, 2015).…”

Section: Generation Zero: Activism Orientated Towards Young People’s mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In other words, time is assumed to be ontologically neutral and often goes unmarked as a culturally specific construct, unless it is ‘Indigenous time’ (Winter, 2019). An ontologically ‘neutral’ conceptualisation of time is recognisable as ‘western’, or more specifically in New Zealand where the research was conducted, as ‘settler-colonial’ (Bell, 2014; Kidman et al, 2020). Notable deconstructions of dominant conceptualisations of time exist, but these still depend on the reproduction of a binary logic of Indigenous/non-Indigenous time for their intelligibility (Nanni, 2017: 3; Rifkin, 2017: 17).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Living in and out of time: Youth-led activism in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Addressing past and present injustices in order to create more just futures is the central premise of most social movements. How activists conceptualise and relate to time affects 1 how they articulate their vision, the actions they take and how they imagine intergenerational justice. Two social movements for change are emblematic of different relationships with time: the struggle to resolve and repair past injustices against Indigenous peoples and the struggle to avert environmental disaster, which haunt the future of the planet. We report ethnographic research (interviews and participant observation) with young activists in these two social movements in New Zealand: Protect Ihumātao seeks to protect Indigenous land from a housing development, and Generation Zero is lobbying for a zero-carbon future. We argue that analysing activists’ articulations and sensations of time is fundamental to understanding the ways they see themselves in relation to other generations, their ethical imperatives for action and beliefs about how best to achieve social change. Protect Ihumātao participants spoke of time as though past, present and future were intertwined and attributed their responsibility to protect the land to past and future generations. Generation Zero participants spoke of time as a linear trajectory to a climate-altered future, often laying blame for the current crises on previous generations and attributing the responsibility for averting the crisis to younger generations. How activists conceptualise time and generational relations therefore has consequences for the attribution of responsibility for creating social change. Understanding and learning about temporal diversity across social movements is instructive for expanding our thinking about intergenerational responsibility which might inform ways of living more respectfully with the planet.

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Section: Indigenous and Climate Activist Temporalitiesmentioning

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Section: Protect Ihumātao: Activism Orientated Towards Intergeneratiomentioning

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“…To elaborate, Children’s Geographies/Childhood Studies continuously advocates, creates, and analyzes interconnections between micro‐political lived realities of young people from investigating complex spatialities of children and young people's everyday lives, through geographical research into the spatio‐temporal variations in children's lived experiences, identities, and life course transitions (Chakraborty & Thambiah, 2018; Horton, 2014; Khan, 2018; Sparks, 2016). By exploring how ‘childhood’ socio‐spatially/temporally around the world is experienced differently has increased heightened awareness around challenging the assumed homogeneity of essentialized definitions of childhood while promoting anti‐hegemonic, anti‐colonial, and less adultist and Eurocentric frameworks to encourage increased place‐based diversity of young people’s experiences and articulations of age (Evans, 2008; Kidman et al., 2021). Nevertheless, interdisciplinary expansion produces ‘grey areas’ in research involving ‘childhood’ and ‘age,’ which can sometimes lead to contestations within and towards the subfield globally.…”

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Advancing children’s geographies through ‘grey areas’ of age and childhood

Khan

2021

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Children’s Geographies actively engages with critical understandings of age‐based research. However, the concept of age is an uncritical entity in these studies fueled by western concepts of childhood. Demarcating age numerically runs the risk of measuring childhoods in the Majority Worlds with Minority World concepts that are not culturally sensitive, but also forecloses any innovations. Researchers often spend so long debating definitions and boundaries when it is often in the grey areas of scholarship and life that the most exciting events and outcomes occur. This review begins with navigating ‘grey areas of age’ from how it is often measured in spaces of conceptual ambiguity with regards to experiences of being in between formal definitions of childhood or ‘Children’s Geographies.’ This is elaborated upon from Eurocentric linages that have shaped the subfield of Children’s Geographies, and in which the subfield should continue shifting from to further decolonize Eurocentric research related to age and childhood. The paper ends by presenting ways of further advancing the subfield of Children’s Geographies through (inter)generational positioning concepts and new interdisciplinary life course studies that further nuances the social variable of age as a grey area in the subfield.

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