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0000-0003-1913-6963
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Deakin University
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-06-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-05-2023
Abstract: First Nations peoples are revitalising erse cultural fire practices and knowledge. Institutional and societal recognition of these practices is growing. Yet there has been little academic research on these fire practices in south‐east Australia, let alone research led by Aboriginal people. We are a group of Indigenous and settler academics, practitioners, and experts focused on cultural fire management in the Victorian Loddon Mallee region. Using interviews and workshops, we facilitated knowledge sharing and discussion. In this paper, we describe three practice‐oriented principles to develop and maintain collaborations across Aboriginal groups, researchers, and government in the Indigenous‐led revitalisation of fire on Country: relationships (creating reciprocity and trust), Country (working with place and people), and power (acknowledging structures and values). Collaborations based on these principles will be unique to each temporal, social, cultural, and geographic context. Considering our findings, we acknowledge the challenges that exist and the opportunities that emerge to constructively hold space to grow genuinely collaborative research that creates change. We suggest that the principles we identify can be applied by anyone wanting to form genuine collaborations around the world as the need for social–ecological justice grows.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-02-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-08-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-03-2018
DOI: 10.1111/TAJA.12270
Abstract: Indigenous peoples' understandings of climate change are often interpreted through an instrumental prism that privileges the ecologically adaptive nature of belief and practice. This paper explores the limits of this perspective by considering the environmental narratives of self‐blame among households in the uplands of Palawan Island, the Philippines. In the south of the island, indigenous Pala'wan widely suggest that cyclical El Niño Southern Oscillation driven variation in rainfall and related food insecurity is the product of a linear change in climatic patterns occurring over the past several decades. This perceived climate change is explained in reference to the popularity of incestuous relationships and a decline in ritualised executions. Through an ethnographic focus on the politics of climate knowledge, I argue that Pala'wan narratives of self‐blame speak as much to ongoing struggles between indigenous people and the Philippine state over control of the forested uplands as it does to the grounded and empirical qualities of indigenous environmental knowledge.
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 12-11-2019
Abstract: Views of fire in the contemporary physical sciences arguably accord with Heraclitus’ proposal that ‘all things are an exchange for fire, and fire for all things, as goods for gold and gold for goods.’ Fire is a media, as John Durham Peters has stated, a species of transformative biochemical reactions between the flammable gases found in air, such as oxygen, and those found in fuels, such as plants. Inspired by an ignition source, these materials react and transform themselves and their surrounds into light and heat energy, carbon dioxide, water vapour, char and much else besides. Fire is conjunctural, durational and transformative. Fire is a dialectician, at once consuming living and dead organic matter and providing both the space and ingredients for new and renewed organic life. In this article, we draw upon our experience of combustible contexts—Australia, Canada and the Philippines—to consider the erse ways in which fire is today framed as a social problem, an ecological process, an ancient tool, a natural disaster, a source of economic wealth and much more. In this way, we seek to explore the value and limits of ‘elemental thinking’ in relation to the planetary predicaments described by ‘the Anthropocene’.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-04-2020
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 12-11-2019
Abstract: An introduction to An Elemental Anthropocene.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-07-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-09-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-10-2020
Publisher: University of Queensland Library
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2018
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