Returning to that which was never lost: Indigenous Australian saltwater identities, a history of land claims and the paradox of return

Kearney, Amanda

doi:10.1080/02757206.2017.1397646

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“…Having acknowledged the acts of taking, I need also to acknowledge what was taken – and also to recognise that much was never lost (Kearney, 2018; Dambeemangaddee People et al, 2017; Burrawanga et al, forthcoming). In acknowledging what was taken, I acknowledge not only the land and places that the colonial state converted to property for possession, but also the people, languages, relationships, knowledge, understanding and cultures whose belonging together makes Country.…”

Section: Acknowledgingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unsettling the taken (for granted)

Howitt¹

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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Histories of colonial plunder produced geographies that settler societies take for granted as settled. While some aspects of the conqueror/settler imaginary have been unsettled in specific cases, and through the negotiation of new instruments such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, various national apologies and modern treaties, much unsettling remains to be done. New geographies of plunder, violence and abuse reinstate geographies of various kleptocracies across the planet, reinforcing the unnatural disasters of displacement, disfigurement and loss on many people, places and communities. This paper uses the framing offered by emergent discourses of Indigenous geographies to reconsider the task of unsettling the taken-for-granted privilege of settler dominance in Indigenous domains.

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Section: Acknowledgingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unsettling the taken (for granted)

Howitt¹

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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“…1 For example, among the Yanyuwa, an Indigenous language group in northern Australia, who identify as li-Anthawirriyarra (people whose essence comes from Sea Country), the sea is present where saltwater influences and shapes life. This may be across the expanse of saltpans and Country under tidal influence and in the cross-Country travels of marine Dreaming ancestors such as the Tiger Shark, Groper and Sea Turtle (see Bradley, 2010;Kearney, 2018). The extent of Yanyuwa Sea Country is determined by the travels of such Dreaming ancestors which put into place the Law which determines political and clan-based limits and boundaries.…”

Section: Landscapesmentioning

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Sea Country: Plurality and knowledge of saltwater territories in Indigenous Australian contexts

Kearney

O’Leary

Platten

2022

Geographical Journal

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There are distinct bodies of cultural knowledge attached to the sea. In this paper we orient the focus towards the nature and extent of cultural framings of sea territories, as inclusive of submerged landscapes, for Indigenous maritime peoples in northern Australia. This approach is distinguished by a pluralist methodology and reorients the primal focus of a human geography and broader geographical scholarship concerning submerged landscapes to begin with an Indigenous perspective. Engaging ethnographic accounts of Indigenous Australian knowledges of Sea Country, as inclusive of ancient pre‐inundation landscapes that lie out‐of‐sight on Australia's continental shelves, highlights the potential for a more expansive vision of human connections to the past and present continental landmass of Australia. Indigenous oral traditions, Dreaming Ancestor narratives and songlines provide extensive detail to assist in understanding these parts of the greater Australian landmass and in this paper are brought into relation with recent sea floor mapping efforts which operate to draw back the water and reveal commensurable geographies upon which to envision possibilities for socialised realms of human emplacement. Both bodies of knowledge generate information of submerged landscapes that call for an expansion of thinking on where the land ends and the sea begins and how submerged terrestrial landscapes are understood across cultures as part of human geography. The approach outlined here calls for a habit of bringing principled systems of understanding to stand together as part of an explanatory schema for a world populated by and yet differentially known by people.

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“…There is a growing use of the term social death referring to the systematic destruction of the traditional activities of Indigenous peoples and the cultural beliefs associated with these activities (Kearney, 2018, Whitt and Clarke, 2019). Huseman and Short (2016) apply the concept to the effects of the Alberta Canada Tar Sands—a major oil project in Northern Alberta—upon the health of Indigenous people.…”

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Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities in Canada: Polemics and anger mobilization as the way forward?

Raphael

Bryant

Govender

et al. 2021

Sociology Health & Illness

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Progress in reducing health inequalities through public policy action is difficult in nations identified as liberal welfare states. In Canada, as elsewhere, researchers and advocates provide governing authorities with empirical findings on the sources of health inequalities and document the lived experiences of those encountering these adverse health outcomes with the hope of provoking public policy action. However, critical analysis of the societal structures and processes that make improving the sources of health inequalities difficult—the quality and distribution of living and working conditions, that is the social determinants of health—identifies limitations in these approaches. Within this latter critical tradition, we consider—using household food insecurity in Canada as an illustration—how polemics and anger mobilization, usually absent in health inequalities research and advocacy—could force Canadian governing authorities to reduce health inequalities through public policy action. We explore the potential of using high valence terms such as structural violence, social death and social murder, which make explicit the adverse outcomes of health‐threatening public policy to force government action. We conclude by outlining the potential benefits and threats posed by polemics and anger mobilization as means of promoting health equity.

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Returning to that which was never lost: Indigenous Australian saltwater identities, a history of land claims and the paradox of return

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

Unsettling the taken (for granted)

Unsettling the taken (for granted)

Sea Country: Plurality and knowledge of saltwater territories in Indigenous Australian contexts

Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities in Canada: Polemics and anger mobilization as the way forward?

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