Traditional Indigenous Biodiversity-related Knowledge

Langton, Marcia; Rhea, Zane Ma

doi:10.1080/00048623.2005.10721248

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“…It is emerging out of a range of interests, sectors, and projects across the globe. It criss-crosses from critique, to caution, to advocacy, to theory, to innovation, and to examples in practice (e.g., Agrawal, 1995aAgrawal, , 1995bAgrawal, , 1996Battiste & Youngblood Henderson, 2000;Christie, 2005;Ellen & Harris, 1996;Gegeo & Watson-Gegeo, 2001;Langton & Ma Rhea, 2005;Russell, 2005;Verran, 2005). It is important to read it critically enough to situate the arguments of various positions taken in this literature.…”

Section: • Contested Knowledge Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…So, even though it is still predominately non-Indigenous or Western parameters that give shape to the Indigenous knowledge discourse, it does ask questions that relate to its usefulness and value in a variety of contexts, including Indigenous contexts. This brings a focus in some (but by no means all) > he AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL <* INDIGENOUS EDUCATION contexts to more collaborative and locally-generated practice on the ground (Christie, 2005;Gumbula, 2005), more opportunities to preserve and maintain Indigenous knowledge within communities (Langton & Ma Rhea, 2005) both through documentation processes and through reinvigorated interest in its future utility (Anderson, 2005, Hunter, 2004, and especially for strengthening Indigenous social, economic and political institutions (Ma Rhea, 2004). It also brings a focus to sharing and transferring aspects of Indigenous knowledge across contexts for much wider human benefit.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Cultural Interface

Nakata

2007

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For a while now I have been researching and writing about Australian Indigenous education issues. Like you all, I have seen much good work and learnt much from what is going on across the country and internationally to improve outcomes for Indigenous learners in formal education processes. And still we go on with the struggle and with the limitations that Western sciences and practices place on us in the process. This paper draws together theoretical propositions from the work we have been progressing for the higher education sector over the past decade and to point to some foundational principles that can help establish some early beginnings with Indigenous education as a discipline in the higher education sector.

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Section: • Contested Knowledge Spacesmentioning

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Section: • Contested Knowledge Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Cultural Interface

Nakata

2007

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“…Stories have been recorded on video, cassette and other magnetic tapes, as well as being captured on canvas through the development of the local art center movement of the 1970 and 1980s. These archives are often stored and located not only in specific community archives but in the offices of the local Aboriginal land council, schools, language centers, art centers and more recently on computers within the community stored in purpose built ''knowledge centers'' (Nakata and Langton 2005;Nakata et al 2008). …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Such information is held in many forms in Aboriginal communities: as art, oral history, digitized records from public institutions, family and community photographs and films, recordings of song and dance. A number of authors have acknowledged the significance, impact and importance of archives in the lives of Aboriginal people (Christie 2004;Christie 2005;Langton and Ma Rhea 2005;Nakata and Langton 2005;Russell 2006;Williams et al 2006;GarwoodHoung 2007;Hughes and Dallwitz 2007;Russell 2007;Thorpe 2007;GarwoodHoung 2008;McKemmish et al 2010;De Largy Healy 2011).…”

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Local archives and community collecting in the digital age

Ormond-Parker

Sloggett

2011

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Aboriginal communities in Australia have adopted new information technologies in innovative ways. The most well known is the Ara Irititja project software, now increasingly adopted by many local community groups in Australia. These developments demand a policy response from public collecting institutions and governments. There is a raft of opportunities being presented by current archival and record-keeping, and information and record-development programs and activities in Aboriginal communities. These include economic empowerment through the development and distribution of new products; community empowerment through ''owning'' histories, stories, images and other associated material and being able to manage the context of, and access to this material; and the development of opportunities for young people. Accompanying these opportunities, however, are serious threats to the protection, preservation, collection and use of this material. These threats are both immediate and long-term and include technology changes and format shifting; physical threats to local collections; the lack of IT expertise and archival knowledge; a lack of knowledge or agreement on the archiving system, standards and principles, and many others. This paper proposes that archives held, and being developed in Aboriginal communities, are developed as a nationally distributed collection with community-generated protocols and community-based management, supported within a fully integrated national framework.

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“…Despite this interest, most academics, practitioners and policymakers involved in setting objectives aimed at protecting or BNB have failed to meaningfully engage with local and Indigenous individuals, communities and organizations, while concomitantly neglecting to integrate local and Indigenous voices, perspectives, interests and concerns into their decision‐making protocols (Langton & Rhea, 2005; Porter & Arabena, 2018). A striking case of this disjuncture can be appreciated in the continued widespread use of the term ‘rewilding’.…”

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Bringing nature back into cities

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1. Protecting nature is a fundamental aspect of local and Indigenous cultures that has more recently become an urban sustainability goal. The benefits provided by nature to people and other species have sparked an upsurge in research exploring how best to manage existing nature in urban environments. Here we expand this focus by drawing attention to an emerging pathway of research and practice that is engaged with the idea of bringing nature back into cities (BNB).2. We argue that BNB could be a vital force of the 21st century urban-sustainability agenda. However, the enthusiasm of practitioners and policymakers for incorporating BNB objectives into local and global strategies remains uneven. As interdisciplinary scholars involved with the theory and practice of caring for urban nature, we believe that the time is ripe to present a fresh perspective on seven key areas that can unlock the potential of actions to bring nature back into cities.3. Specifically, we: (a) argue that the sovereignty of local and Indigenous knowledgesystems be acknowledged and respected; (b) contend that the choice of bringing nature back actions should be driven by inclusive decision-making; (c) discuss advances in ecology that need to be addressed to facilitate the return of nature into cities; (d) outline how the diffusion of innovation theory may assist communication of BNB actions to stakeholders; (e) discuss how built-environment professionals can demonstrate the value of urban infrastructure for BNB; (f) call for longitudinal research to understand, quantify and qualify the benefits of BNB actions and (g) consider solutions needed to address concerns about potential risks and disservices associated with actions to bring nature back into urban environments.4. Taken together, these perspectives, and the transdisciplinary framework that emerges from them, embody theoretical innovation regarding how to bring nature back into cities and a holistic view of how to make this happen in practice. Bringing nature back into cities has the potential to become an environmentally just and culturally inclusive dimension of the 21st urban sustainability agenda upon which future generations of city-dwellers rely. | 351People and Nature MATA eT Al.

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Traditional Indigenous Biodiversity-related Knowledge

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