Whitefellas (From the book Walk Back Over)

Abstract

Walk Back Over alludes to a bridge across the Murrumbidgee River where I grew up but, more symbolically, mirrors the need to revisit our past. Much was made of the 2000 Reconciliation Walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge—many settler Australians walked across this and other bridges, and I am not cynical about that—but there are many other spans in Australia that must be walked: not just once, walked back over.

Wild Swimming Methodologies for Decolonial Feminist Justice-to-Come Scholarship

“…These also disturb the notion of neoliberal capitalist and anthropocentric individualised subjectivity as outside of accountability and responsibility for others and the planetary condition (Braidotti, 2019). Emerging methodologies, such as Slow 2 scholarship (Martell, 2014;Mountz et al, 2015;Bozalek, 2017;Leibowitz and Bozalek, 2018), wild methodologies (Jickling et al, 2018), walking methodologies Truman, 2018, 2019;Arora, 2019;Goulding, 2019;Leane, 2019;Neimanis and Phillips, 2019;O'Neill and Einashe, 2019;Pratt and Johnston, 2019;Somerville et al, 2019) as well as indigenous healing walking practices (Wong, 2013) and other embodied, affective methodologies exemplify some of the many current efforts to reconceptualise and reconfigure scholarly practices. This article thinks with oceanic swimming within the (post-)apartheid space of South African higher education, where both authors have worked at a university for many years.…”