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Macquarie University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Social and Cultural Geography | Human Geography | Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies | Human Geography not elsewhere classified
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Communication Across Languages and Culture | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Environmental Education and Awareness | Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis |
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Publications
Indigenous geographies
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2009
“Quarantine Matters!”: Quotidian Relationships around Quarantine in Australia's Northern Borderlands
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1068/A40196
Abstract: This paper investigates practices of border formation through an analysis of Australia's quarantine processes. We use the work of the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS), through the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS), to interrogate the ways in which borders are made and remade in daily life. By exploring quotidian practices of quarantine we argue that borders are the sites of complex and fluid relationships that are constantly being renegotiated as multiple active agents cohabit, contest, belong, and exclude. We find that quarantine borders are constantly being (re)made by forces outside NAQS's control, including through the practices of Yolngu Indigenous land-management staff and rangers, in idual local residents, and erse non-humans. Borders are revealed as active spaces produced in multiple locations at multiple scales. They are underpinned by erse ontologies and are always more-than-human. This challenges the overly simplified view evoked within AQIS's public awareness material and the prevailing national discourse of defence, invasion, and fear. Through attention to quotidian practices of border making, different ways of understanding borderland geographies emerge.
Morrku mangawu—knowledge on the land
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 15-07-2016
DOI: 10.3390/H5030061
Integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge bases for disaster risk reduction in papua new guinea
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Indigenous Places and Colonial Spaces
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-09-2018
Qualitative methods 1: Enriching the interview
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2016
Abstract: In this first of a series of three progress reports on qualitative methods we scope recent qualitative research in human geography through the prism of the interview. Across erse subfields the interview persists as the dominant means of understanding, though increasingly supplemented or complemented by other means such as diaries and autobiography. Capturing social life as it happens is emerging in response to theoretical developments that encourage new methodological thinking, and includes cities and buildings being thought of as methodological resources as well as sites. These point to concerns with the materiality and inventiveness of method that will be explored in subsequent reports.
Working with and learning from Country: decentring human author-ity
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-06-2015
Abstract: In this paper, we invite you night fishing for wäkun at Bawaka, an Indigenous homeland in North East Arnhem Land, Australia. As we hunt wäkun, we discuss our work as an Indigenous and non-Indigenous, human and more-than-human research collective trying to attend deeply to the messages we send and receive from, with and as a part of Country. The wäkun, and all the animals, plants, winds, processes, things, dreams and people that emerge together in nourishing, co-constitutive ways to create Bawaka Country, are the author-ity of our research. Our reflection is both methodological and ontological as we aim to attend deeply to Country and deliberate on what a Yolŋu ontology of co-becoming, that sees everything as knowledgeable, vital and interconnected, might mean for the way academics do research. We discuss a methodology of attending underpinned by a relational ethics of care. Here, care stems from an awareness of our essential co-constitution as we care for, and are cared for by, the myriad human and more-than-human becomings that emerge together to create Bawaka. We propose that practising relational research requires researchers to open themselves up to the reality of their connections with the world, and consider what it means to live as part of the world, rather than distinct from it. We end with a call to go beyond ‘human’ geography to embrace a more-than-human geography, a geography of co-becoming.
'That means the fish are fat'
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2009
De-centring White ruralities: Ethnic diversity, racialisation and Indigenous countrysides
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2009
Telling stories in, through and with Country: Engaging with Indigenous and more-than-human methodologies at Bawaka, NE Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2012
Bala ga’ lili: communicating, relating and co-creating balance through relationships of reciprocity
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-03-2022
On teaching and learning resource and environmental management: Reframing capacity building in multicultural settings
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2006
Rethinking the building blocks: Ontological pluralism and the idea of 'management'
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2006
Gapu, water, creates knowledge and is a life force to be respected
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 28-04-2022
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PWAT.0000020
Abstract: In this piece, we share about gapu, water. Gapu gives life for a person and the land. Gapu nurtures and holds connection it is knowledge and power, belonging and boundaries. We share as an Indigenous and non-Indigenous more-than-human collective, the Bawaka Collective, led by Bawaka Country and senior Yolŋu sisters Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs and Banbapuy Ganambarr, who speak from our place, our Country, our homeland, Rorruwuy, Dätiwuy land and Bawaka, Gumatj land, in Northeast Arnhem Land, Australia. Our piece follows the Songspiral Wukun, Gathering of the Clouds, and shares that water has many meanings, much knowledge and Law that must be respected. People and water co-become together. There is not one water but many, that hold balance. If we come together, waters, knowledges, peoples, acknowledging and respecting our differences, we can make rain.
Ontological pluralism in contested cultural landscapes
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2003
Author-ity of/as Bawaka Country
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2023
Framework for integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge for disaster risk reduction
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-11-2009
DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-7717.2009.01126.X
Abstract: A growing awareness of the value of indigenous knowledge has prompted calls for its use within disaster risk reduction. The use of indigenous knowledge alongside scientific knowledge is increasingly advocated but there is as yet no clearly developed framework demonstrating how the two may be integrated to reduce community vulnerability to environmental hazards. This paper presents such a framework, using a participatory approach in which relevant indigenous and scientific knowledge may be integrated to reduce a community's vulnerability to environmental hazards. Focusing on small island developing states it presents an analysis of the need for such a framework alongside the difficulties of incorporating indigenous knowledge. This is followed by an explanation of the various processes within the framework, drawing on research completed in Papua New Guinea. This framework is an important first step in identifying how indigenous and scientific knowledge may be integrated to reduce community vulnerability to environmental hazards.
Co-becoming Bawaka: Towards a relational understanding of place/space
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-06-2016
Abstract: We invite readers to dig for ganguri (yams) at and with Bawaka, an Indigenous Homeland in northern Australia, and, in doing so, consider an Indigenous-led understanding of relational space lace. We draw on the concept of gurrutu to illustrate the limits of western ontologies, open up possibilities for other ways of thinking and theorizing, and give detail and depth to the notion of space lace as emergent co-becoming. With Bawaka as lead author, we look to Country for what it can teach us about how all views of space are situated, and for the insights it offers about co-becoming in a relational world.
Gathering of the Clouds
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
The politics of ontology and ontological politics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2016
Abstract: There is a politics to what ontologies are recognized as existing what pasts, presents and futures are made real what configurations of place, time and being are validated and what ethics underpin the reality of our connections with and as the world. And there is a powerful violence associated with their dismissal. In responding to Simon and Randalls’ discussion of the ontological politics of resilience, we consider ontological politics in an Indigenous context. We do this as an Indigenous–non-Indigenous, human–more-than-human collective, from, and as, Bawaka, an Indigenous Australian homeland in northern Australia. We offer an ontography of Bawaka and, in so doing, attend to the layers of lirrwi (charcoal) in the sand to recognize what lirrwi can tell us about being, and politics, in a Country that has always co-become with Yolŋu people.
Qualitative methods 3: Experimenting, picturing, sensing
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-09-2017
Abstract: In this, our third and final snapshot of contemporary qualitative research methods, we pick up on the proliferation of non-representational theory across human geography and focus on research methods concerned with practices that exceed (more than) representation or are non-representational. We chart work that pays attention to the non-visible, the non-verbal and the non-obvious, as well as methods and methodologies that enable researchers to grasp and grapple with assemblages, relationalities, and life as it unfolds. We characterize these ‘more-than representational’ methodologies as: experimenting with approaches to research, using picturing as an embedded research methodology, and highlighting research as sensing. We conclude that these have opened new forms of knowledge, including into subdisciplines like health geography. Nonetheless, a privileging of written and visual modes of thinking and representing remain, and the discipline must be vigilant to nurture and value the emerging work on neural ersity and non-Western modes of thinking.
Transforming tourists and culturalising commerce
Publisher: University of Western Ontario, Western Libraries
Date: 09-09-2015
Abstract: There is currently an increasing interest in Indigenous tourism in Australia. Policies in Australia often use the rhetoric of sustainability, but position Indigenous tourism as a means for economic growth and development (Whitford & Ruhanen, 2010). This study shows that interpersonal relationships, cultural and social interactions, and learning are key to achieving the goals of Indigenous tourism providers or “hosts,” and to the experiences of tourists. This article explores tourist experiences of activities run by the Indigenous-owned tour company Bawaka Cultural Enterprises (hereafter BCE) in North East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. BCE is an ex le of an Indigenous tourism business that aims to achieve social change by sharing of Indigenous ways of being, knowledges, and practices with non-Indigenous people during tours, whilst also ensuring that the business is sustainable and manageable for the family who runs it. In this sense, BCE’s tourism activities can be understood as an attempt to “culturalise commerce,” rather than commercialising culture (Bunten, 2010). In this article, we contribute to growing literature on transformative learning theory and tourism by considering tourists’ narratives of their experiences with BCE. We focus on the way in which tourists are transformed by an increased connection to their hosts and their country. We argue that BCE’s activities consciously introduce different ways of being to tourists and visitors. A growing awareness, understanding, and respect for these ways of being can inspire a sense of collective purpose and identity, and a deep emotional response to tours. Connection, however, is not always smooth and easy. Central to the process outlined in Mezirow’s (1978) transformative learning theory are encounters and engagements with other people and different and unfamiliar contexts, which may lead to disorienting feelings and experiences. We argue that the practical aspects of being at Bawaka, combined with the new skills, task requirements, and political realities that commitment to new ways of being bring, can be disconcerting and disorienting for tourists. The availability of spaces and processes to reflect on these points of disorientation may determine whether these experiences challenge and/or contribute to personal transformation. These factors highlight areas for further exploration in developing a theory of transformative learning in the Indigenous context, and a need for policies to move beyond a narrow focus on economic aspects of tourism to consider the social and educational aims of both tourism ventures and tourists themselves.
Stories of crossings and connections from Bawaka, North East Arnhem Land, Australia | Des histoires de traversées et de connections de Bawaka, la région Nord-Est de Terre d'Arnhem, Australie
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2010
Legal pluralism on Dyarubbin
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-04-2023
Murray River country
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2011
Doing a Co-tutelle PhD… what the? (2014)
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2015
The generative power of nurturing new connections
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-2021
Meaningful tourist transformations with Country at Bawaka, North East Arnhem Land, northern Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-12-2017
Abstract: In this article, we discuss how human and more-than-human agencies, experienced and interpreted through emotions and sensory experiences, actively shape and enable transformative learning for tourists. We examine the narratives of two visitors to Bawaka Cultural Enterprises, an Indigenous-run tourism venture in North East Arnhem Land, northern Australia. We attend particularly to the more-than-human place of Bawaka and the ways the visitors are drawn into what is known as Bawaka Country. Indeed, transformation occurs as the visitors co-become with Country, become part of its ongoing co-constitution. We also examine the limits to transformations forged through such immersive tourism experiences. Ultimately, we suggest that for these visitors, more-than-human agencies create transformative learning experiences which build emotional and affective connections with people, places and causes. We argue that even though these connections may become diluted over time and distance, embodied and remembered experiences remain meaningful, having the potential to unsettle, connect and transform.
Ecological footprinting as a top-down and bottom-up approach to complete campus engagement and transformation towards the One Planet Goal
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 10-10-2015
Pluriversal politics
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2022
Reframing Indigenous water rights in 'modern' Taiwan
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
Date: 03-2018
DOI: 10.18352/IJC.823
'Totally Wild'? Colonising discourses, indigenous knowledges1 and managing wildlife
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2002
Interview: Radio National Bush Telegraph
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2016
Songspirals Bring Country Into Existence: Singing More-Than-Human and Relational Creativity
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-01-2022
DOI: 10.1177/10778004211068192
Abstract: Songspirals bring Country into existence. Co-authored by a more-than-human, Yolŋu-led collaboration, this article centers Yolŋu understandings of time and place and elaborates on our work together through a spiral-based framework. Our Indigenous and Country-led Collective nourishes and shares some Yolŋu understandings of songspirals to enable, enrich, and awaken Country to challenge and expand Western academic frameworks and to contribute toward more responsive relationships between people and places. To sing or keen the spirals now means the ongoing creation of place and people—an emergent, more-than-human creativity that literally creates and re-creates existence. Songspirals are more-than-human processes that need active engagement to nourish positive relationships and to heal damaged ones. Songspirals are a keening/singing, of, with, by, for, and as Country.
Decolonizing property in Taiwan
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-09-2018
Abstract: Indigenous Tayal experiences of dispossession in Taiwan reflect a familiar pattern of state-sanctioned property rights precluding recognition of Indigenous rights. This paper examines Tayal customary institutions and how they have governed, and continue to govern, land interests in customary domains. In an agricultural economy encompassing patterns of mobility and long-term movement between areas, Tayal people maintain continuing rights in land that is not currently or permanently occupied or used. However, following Second World War and Taiwan’s occupation by the Chinese Nationalist Kuomingtang party, a new system of in idually registered property titles was established, only allowing registration of in idual land in settled fields that were occupied and cultivated. Interests in fallowed land were not registrable and such land was reclassified as State property. The system’s enforcement in the 1950s was central to the dispossession and non-recognition of Tayal rights and parallel discourses making Indigenous people invisible. We argue that unpacking the ontologies behind hegemonic understandings of property in Taiwan offers ground for recognizing the plurality, messiness and openness that articulate contestations over time, space and property. In the context of Taiwan’s 2016 Presidential Apology to Indigenous citizens, we conclude that contested constructions of temporality and spatiality are fundamental to challenging Indigenous dispossession.
Flipping and still learning: experiences of a flipped classroom approach for a third-year undergraduate human geography course
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-05-2017
SylvesterMangolamara, LilyKaradada, JanetOobagooma, DonnyWoolagoodja and JackKaradadaNyara Pari Kala Niragu (Gaambera), Gadawara Ngyaran‐Gada (Wunambal), Inganinja Gubadjoongana (Woddordda): We are coming to see you, Compiled by Kim Doohan Freemantle: Freemantle Press. $109 (available to order from https://www.wunambalgaambera.org.au/We-Are-Coming-to-See-You-Book-Purchase), ISBN: 9780648424703
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-06-2020
Yanama budyari gumada: reframing the urban to care as Darug Country in western Sydney
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-04-2019
Decolonising strategies and neoliberal dilemmas in a tertiary institution: Nurturing care-full approaches in a blended learning environment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2019
Buran Nalgarra: an Indigenous-led model for walking with good spirit and learning together on Darug Ngurra
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-06-2021
DOI: 10.1177/11771801211023210
Abstract: In the distressing midst of global extinction and environmental crises, changes to the ways that places are managed and cared for are vital and urgent. We offer here an Indigenous-led model of cross-cultural collaboration based on lessons shared by Darug custodians in Sydney, Australia, embedded in the making of buran nalgarra (stringybark rope). The Buran Nalgarra model of collaboration is not a simple cut-and-paste model nor panacea for effective collaboration. Rather, embedded deeply in Darug Ngurra (Darug Country), we share what we have learnt and value through our Caring-as-Darug-Ngurra project in the hope that others will find our guiding principles and processes useful, and perhaps adapt our learning to their own places. We strive for strength and learning through togetherness.
Challenging ideals of reciprocity in undergraduate teaching: the unexpected benefits of unpredictable cross-cultural fieldwork
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2014
Reframing development through collaboration: Towards a relational ontology of connection in Bawaka, North East Arnhem Land
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2012
Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-11-2016
Delivering the discipline: Teaching geography and planning during COVID‐19
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-04-2021
Abstract: COVID‐19 has radically changed the higher education sector in Australia and beyond. Restrictions on student movement (especially for international students) and on gatherings (which limited on‐c us sessions) saw universities transition to fully online teaching modes almost overnight. In this commentary, we reflect on this transition and consider the implications for teaching the disciplines of geography and planning. Reflecting on experiences at the Department of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University, we explore a series of challenges, responses and opportunities for teaching core disciplinary skills and knowledge across three COVID‐19 moments: transition, advocacy, and hybridity. Our focus is on the teaching of core disciplinary skills and knowledge and specifically on geographical theory, methods, and fieldwork and professional practice skills. In drawing on this case from Macquarie University, we offer insights for the future of teaching geography and planning in universities more broadly.
Intercultural mathematics: Developing teaching skills and materials through/with Yolŋu mathematics
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2015
An interwoven learning exchange: Transforming research-teaching relationships in the top end, Northern Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-05-2007
Keepers of the flame: songspirals are a university for us
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2023
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2023.27
Social housing as infrastructure and the role of mission driven financing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2022
Ending with the wind, crying the dawn
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 07-02-2022
Intercultural capacity deficits: Contested geographies of coexistence in natural resource management
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2013
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12014
New geographies of coexistence: Reconsidering cultural interfaces in resource and environmental governance
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2013
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12013
Caring as country: Towards an ontology of co-becoming in natural resource management
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2013
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12018
Reflections on use of participatory research for disaster risk reduction
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-03-2008
Bunbum ga dhä-yutagum
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-02-2020
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ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT210100320
Start Date: 2022
End Date: 03-2028
Amount: $978,680.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Start Date: 03-2014
End Date: 12-2017
Amount: $220,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Start Date: 02-2019
End Date: 12-2023
Amount: $357,519.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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