<i>Yanama budyari gumada</i>: reframing the urban to care as Darug Country in western Sydney

Ngurra, Darug; Dadd, Lexodious; Glass, Paul; Scott, Rebecca; Graham, Marnie; Judge, Sara; Hodge, Paul; Suchet‐Pearson, Sandie

doi:10.1080/00049182.2019.1601150

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“…In Australia, Ngurra et al () highlight how, by being present and affectively attuned to particular places, we are able to heal and be healed by country , through acts such as cultural burns and the telling of stories at culture camps. They emphasise the importance of recognising that “places also care” (Ngurra et al, , p. 12) and that being present in particular places has the potential to transform and alter ways of being and knowing worlds. In this case, unceded urban worlds become both care givers and care receivers, pointing to the diverse subjects of urban care research.…”

Section: Care and The Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some groups stand out in urban care literature as having a specific need for care and to care. These include homeless and disadvantaged people (Conradson, ; Johnsen et al, ; Williams, ), asylum seekers (Darling, ), women's library members and strangers who drop in (Williams, ), social housing tenants (Mee, ; Power & Bergan, ), children (Bartos, ; Kullman, ), artists and residents of wounded cities (Till, ), country (Ngurra et al, ), farmers, the environment, and members and fellow food cooperative volunteers and staff (Williams, ). These recent interventions build on longstanding recognition of the intersectional inequities shaping urban care responsibility, which see women, and racially and ethnically marginalised groups over‐burdened and under‐rewarded for their care work (Tronto, ).…”

Section: Care and The Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In cities that are transforming as climates change, these are fruitful questions for future care research. They are relations that resonate within more‐than‐human worlds, shaping opportunities for human and other‐than‐human life and flourishing (Jones, ) and making visible “… reciprocal relationships of more‐than‐human care‐giving” (Ngurra et al, , p. 3) that expand our understanding of the possibility of urban caring.…”

Section: Toward a New Urban Geographical Theory Of Urban Caringmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cities of care: A platform for urban geographical care research

Power

Williams

2019

Geography Compass

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This paper develops an agenda for a broadened conceptualisation of urban caring within geographical research. We open by identifying three existing domains of urban care research: examining spaces of care, materialities of care, and asking who are the subjects of care? We then synthesise three platforms that can be the foundation of a geographical theory and approach to urban care. Drawing from feminist care research and recent keystone pieces on urban caring, we argue, first, that there is a need for a broadened conceptualisation of urban care that emphasises the universal need for care and care that supports human and non-human flourishing. Second, we propose an expanded scale of urban care analysis that attends to the ways that lives are lived within and through the city. Third, we open up an analysis of where care is located in cities,arguing for the value of locating urban care beyond interpersonal care and care through welfare, to urban governance and planning, markets, and more-than-human materialities. We conclude by conceptualising how care might inform utopian dreamings for the just and caring city.We challenge urban geographers to think through the possibilities of care to transform cities. K E Y W O R D Scare, care policy, justice, markets, materiality, spaces of care, urban geography

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Section: Care and The Citymentioning

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Section: Care and The Citymentioning

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Section: Toward a New Urban Geographical Theory Of Urban Caringmentioning

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Cities of care: A platform for urban geographical care research

Power

Williams

2019

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“…We have worked together for 4 years, collaborating closely along with researchers and students from Macquarie and Newcastle universities in the Yanama budyari gumada research collective. Through this collective work we have all become mudjin, family, committed to working together to bridge Darug and non-Indigenous knowledge systems to care-as-Darug Country (Ngurra et al, 2019(Ngurra et al, , 2020. We acknowledge much of this article's research has been conducted on Darug Country, and we pay our respects to all the Elders who have informed this work, and who continue to work tirelessly to Care-as-Country and pass on their knowledges to the next generations.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deep-colonising narratives and emotional labour: Indigenous tourism in a deeply-colonised place

Graham

Dadd

2021

Tourist Studies

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Sydney is an Indigenous place – Indigenous Country – infused with Indigenous stories and lore/Law. Yet as the original site of British colonisation in 1788, Sydney today is also a deeply-colonised place. Long-held narratives of Sydney as a colonial city have worked hard to erasure Indigenous peoples’ presences and to silence Indigenous stories of this place (Rey and Harrison, 2018). In recent years, however, Indigenous-led tours on Country are emerging in the Greater Sydney region, whereby Indigenous guides share with visitors stories of place, history, culture, language and connection. We write together as Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, in conversation with four Indigenous tour operators in the Greater Sydney region to reflect on their experiences of conducting Indigenous tours in this Indigenous-yet-deeply-colonised place. We document the kinds of ‘deep-colonising’ (Rose, 1996) narratives and assumptions the operators encounter during their tours and within the tourism industry, and highlight how Indigenous tour operators facilitate many non-Indigenous peoples in taking their first steps towards meaningful interactions with Indigenous Sydney-siders. We conclude that Indigenous tour operators undertake incredibly complex, confronting and challenging emotional labours trying to change the pervasive and deep-colonising narratives and assumptions about Indigenous peoples in the Greater Sydney region. In a world where the histories of thousands of cities ‘lie in dispossession and genocide of Indigenous peoples’ (Porter, 2020: 15), we argue for further and careful analytical attention on Indigenous tourism encounters in Indigenous – yet deeply-colonised – places.

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“…Walking has also become a popular methodology to investigate embodied ways of knowing and understanding our environments (Vergunst, 2010). Walking scholarship has emerged in cultural studies and education (Springgay and Truman, 2018), urban studies and sociology (Degen and Rose, 2012; Goh, 2013), geography (Dodge et al, 2009; Edensor, 2010; Evans and Jones, 2011; Macpherson, 2016; Ngurra et al, 2019; Pierce and Lawhon, 2015).…”

Section: Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The not-yet-tropical: mapping recombinant ecologies in a Sydney suburb

Vanni

Crosby

2020

Visual Communication

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Mapping and fitness apps, government agencies and departments, and citizen science projects provide a wealth of data on urban green spaces, charting parks, reserves, and green corridors in and around Sydney. These maps represent vegetation as surface and, as Doreen Massey in the 2005 book For Space noted about other types of Western maps, detach the observer from the object of their gaze. The authors argue that, in order to make recombinant ecologies present, as well as visible, we need a different order of maps, able to place the observer back in the thick of things, and to capture the entanglements between humans and more-than-human gatherings. This, they maintain, requires a shift to mapping as an embodied methodology that brings together walking, visual documentation and drawing. To do this, they present three walking maps of plants imagined as ‘tropical’ growing in Marrickville, a suburb in Gadigal-Wangal Country in Sydney’s inner west, an area located in the ‘sub-tropical humid’ climate zone map. Through the generation of three plant-led walking maps, they reveal recombinant Marrickville ecologies. They show how plants redesign the urban landscape and engender everyday practices in the gardens, verges, and non-cultivated parcels of land and, in doing so, contribute to sensing the suburb as tropical.

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Yanama budyari gumada: reframing the urban to care as Darug Country in western Sydney

Cited by 42 publications

References 38 publications

Cities of care: A platform for urban geographical care research

Cities of care: A platform for urban geographical care research

Deep-colonising narratives and emotional labour: Indigenous tourism in a deeply-colonised place

The not-yet-tropical: mapping recombinant ecologies in a Sydney suburb

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