Indigenous more-than-humanisms: relational ethics with the Hurunui River in Aotearoa New Zealand

Thomas, Amanda

doi:10.1080/14649365.2015.1042399

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“…Geographers need do more than recognize and celebrate place alone, or indeed to acknowledge relational ontologies with non-humans. There is a risk that such discussions of place, particularly when using more-than-representational approaches, are apolitical (Blaser, 2014;Thomas, 2015).…”

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Doings with the land and sea: Decolonising geographies, Indigeneity, and enacting place-agency

Barker

Pickerill

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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Indigenous and decolonising geographies should be unsettling and challenging to the ontological foundations of the geographical discipline. Yet despite many scholars recognising and arguing for the need for these perspectives, Indigeneity remains marginal and Indigenous knowledge has been denied academic legitimacy within geography. Using ‘doings’ as an active, emergent, and evolving praxis, this paper examines how we can do Indigenous and settler geographies better. It illustrates how knowledge, emotions, feelings and intuition only come into being through the doings of the body with other bodies, places, and objects, including non-humans. Action and thought are indistinguishable, feeling is knowing, and the world becomes known through doing and movement. In these doings, place – particularly the land and sea – is an active agent in the making of beings and knowledge. By focusing on active doings in place, and acknowledging the temporalities of Indigenous ontologies, geographers are better able to support political and everyday struggles, situate our work in relation to colonialism, recognise and value everyday practices of resurgence, and spend time building relationships. ‘Doing’ geography differently would decentre academics as the source of knowledge production, employ more diverse voices in our teaching and provide embodied and material resistance to colonialism and neoliberal capitalism.

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Section: Decolonising Geographymentioning

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Doings with the land and sea: Decolonising geographies, Indigeneity, and enacting place-agency

Barker

Pickerill

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Ontological and decolonial options suggest that we need to study and understand the many and varied processes through which political relations of respect, care, and cooperation are always already taking place within and beyond the sphere of the human (Thomas, 2015). 'Nature' is no longer a space without capacities for refracting goodness.…”

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Nature, Critique, Ontology, and Decolonial Options: Problematising ‘The Political'

Jackson

2018

The SAGE Handbook of Nature: Three Volume Set

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“…Sundberg (2014) has critiqued the way more-than-human theorists such as Whatmore and Bennett have framed their arguments as 'new' when complex understandings of more than human agency as a politicising force exist and are evident in daily life within many Indigenous communities (see also De la Cadena 2010; Blaser 2014; Hunt 2014). Within Aotearoa New Zealand, there is an important body of work on Māori understandings of the biophysical world that explore the multiple and complex intersections of humans, the biophysical world, agency and nature politics (see for instance Coombes 2007;Tipa 2009;Bargh 2011;Thomas 2015). This literature demonstrates that, while an attentiveness to relational agency is important, critical attention must be given to colonialisms that creep into such analysis.…”

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‘It’s who we are’: eco-nationalism and place in contesting deep-sea oil in Aotearoa New Zealand

Diprose

Thomas

Bond

2016

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

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Given near consensus among the scientific community about the anthropogenic nature of climate change, there is pressing concern about how to mobilise enough people to care and demand wider socio-political change. In this article we explore this urgent issue, drawing on recent conflicts over deep-sea oil exploration and drilling in Aotearoa New Zealand. We explore how some activist groups are attempting to mobilise care and concern around deepsea oil drilling and climate change through the use of narratives that entwine aspects of national identity with the non-human world. We suggest that these activist groups are not concerned about a retreat of the state, but rather, are in direct conflict with the state, and state interventionism, over fossil fuel development trajectories in Aotearoa New Zealand. In drawing upon econationalism, and particularly a way of life related to place, activists have called into question the common sense of business as usual and thereby sought to expand space for 'ordinary' Aotearoa New Zealanders to care about climate change.

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Indigenous more-than-humanisms: relational ethics with the Hurunui River in Aotearoa New Zealand

Cited by 72 publications

References 37 publications

Doings with the land and sea: Decolonising geographies, Indigeneity, and enacting place-agency

Doings with the land and sea: Decolonising geographies, Indigeneity, and enacting place-agency

Nature, Critique, Ontology, and Decolonial Options: Problematising ‘The Political'

‘It’s who we are’: eco-nationalism and place in contesting deep-sea oil in Aotearoa New Zealand

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