Voicing Derbarl Yerrigan as a feminist anti‐colonial methodology

Wintoneak, Vanessa; Blaise, Mindy

doi:10.1002/rra.3822

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“…As a result, new, imperfect, and non-innocent relations were made between river, children, adults, plants, and animals. One of these relations included Djenark, silver gull (see Wintoneak & Blaise, 2021) who invites us to think with colonial pastpresent histories.…”

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Regeneration time: ancient wisdom for planetary wellbeing

Poelina

Wooltorton

Blaise

et al. 2022

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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In these regenerative times prompted by the Anthropocene, Aboriginal voices are situated to draw on ancient wisdom for local learning and to share information across the globe as ecological imperative for planetary wellbeing. In this paper, postqualitative research foregrounds the sentient nature of life as ancestral power and brings the vitality of co-becoming as our places into active engagement. It enables coloniality to surface and reveals how it sits in our places and lives, in plain sight but unnoticed because of its so-called common sense. Postqualitative research relates with ancient knowledges in foregrounding Country’s animacy and presence, revealing the essence of time as non-linear, cyclical and perpetual. In this way, we are places, weather and climate, not separate. Postqualitative research also relates with ancient knowledge in illustrating Country as agentic and time as multiple, free of constraint and directly involved in our everyday. Country is active witness in the lives of Aboriginal peoples, here always. This is a strong basis for decolonisation. We all have a responsibility to listen, to help create a new direction for the future in the present time.

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Regeneration time: ancient wisdom for planetary wellbeing

Poelina

Wooltorton

Blaise

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Aust. J. environ. educ.

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“…Engaging with critical walking practices (Springgay and Truman, 2018), the aim was to explore the potential for generating situated place-based pedagogies that sit within a paradigm which acknowledges the relational interdependence of Place and children. Critical walking practices acknowledge children as embedded in complex and relational ecosystems, and are employed by researchers who are seeking to trouble more traditional child-centred walks that focus only on the interests and development of children (Blaise et al, 2019;Hamm, 2015;Wintoneak and Blaise, 2021).…”

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“…Critical walking practices acknowledge children as embedded in complex and relational ecosystems, and are employed by researchers who are seeking to trouble more traditional child-centred walks that focus only on the interests and development of children (Blaise et al . , 2019; Hamm, 2015; Wintoneak and Blaise, 2021).…”

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Beyond reflective practice: Blogging-with Place as a diffractive practice for (re)imagining place-based education

Nociti

2022

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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This article proposes the diffractive practice of blogging-with Place as an alternative to a reflective journal. Reflective practice is a priority for teachers, with reflective journaling often employed as a method for documenting a teacher's experiences and knowledge about sites that are intended for place-based teaching and learning. However, when implemented for the purpose of improving place-based approaches, reflective journaling is limited by its grounding in an epistemology that values knowledge as leading to mastery and control over the environment. In response to calls for a radical reimagining of place-based approaches, the diffractive practice of blogging-with Place offers an opening for (re)imagining place-based pedagogies that (re)situate children as part of Place–children common worlds. This article has emerged from a study during which the researcher walked- and blogged-with Gabbiljee, a wetlands ecosystem also known as the watery place at the end of Derbarl Yerrigan (also known as the Swan River) in Perth, Western Australia. The inquiry revealed that whilst the potential for diffractive practice was acknowledged, there were challenges for a teacher-researcher trained in reflective practice to make this shift. The author found that the intentional implementation of hesitating and (de)composing practices intervened in ways that disrupted reflective habits, prompted necessary unlearning and created openings for diffractive possibilities. Using excerpts from two different blogs, the limitations of reflective blogging are compared to the possibilities, challenges and unlearning that transpired when engaging with the diffractive practice of blogging-with Place. Speculative, transparent and emergent, blogging-with Place is an alternative method for documenting encounters with Place.

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“…As Harvey (2017) puts it in his review of contemporary animism, in this view "The world is full people, only some of whom are human" (p. 17). Such perspectives are drawn on in papers in this issue (Manikuakanishtiku, Desbiens, & Kanapé, 2022;RiverOfLife et al, 2022;Wintoneak & Blaise, 2022). This does not mean that the Western world has nothing to contribute here: there is a long undercurrent of thought which is fundamentally opposed to the dominant mechanistic (dualist or materialist) perspective.…”

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“…While some contributions in this issue draw on methodological traditions such as action research (Bracknell, Horwitz, Ryan, & Marshall, 2022;Kurio & Reason, 2022;Manikuakanishtiku et al, 2022), we also believe it is important to trust traditional wisdom and careful everyday observations, using methodologies which enable foregrounding of more-than-human beings and the decentring of human interests; as for example, Wooltorton, Poelina, and Collard (2022). Views from participatory (Billings, Lovett, & Wasserman, 2022) and posthumanist (Wintoneak & Blaise, 2022) perspectives address everyday observations and experiential relationships; as well as views from Indigenous worldviews and cosmologies which accept that if people care for Country, Country can respond (RiverOfLife et al, 2022).…”

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Voicing Rivers

Wooltorton

Guimond

Reason

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River Research & Apps

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Welcome to this Special Issue of River Research and Applications, entitled Voicing Rivers. As an editorial group, it has been a great privilege to read and consider responses to our call for contributions and share with readers, authors and reviewers involved in this journey (Figure 1). We invited proposals for articles and creative work to focus on stories of, by, from and for rivers, from a variety of perspectives.This Special Issue has been a collaborative project involving nearly 20 rivers and over 50 people. We thank contributors, reviewers and the River Research and Applications journal editorial and production team.In our call for papers, we invited perspectives on rivers that offer alternatives to the prevailing business-as-usual view. We proposed that rivers are living, culturally and socially engaged beings. We suggested they hold songs, stories, histories, health or illness, emotions, ecosystem complexity, and animate spirits. These perspectives challenge persistent, dualist and Cartesian, thinking that contributes to conceptions of rivers as denatured, denuded water delivery mechanisms separate from people. We called for papers that celebrate the integrity and authenticity of rivers as living beings, with the right to live and flow. The aim was to illustrate the relational interdependence among humans, non-human beings, river systems and waterways, showing that land, water, people and all beings intrinsically entwine in complex and intricate situated ways. This set of papers contributes to regenerative transformation for ecosystem health, socio-economic recovery, place sensitivities and cultural restoration for the greater good. It includes transdisciplinary Earth-centred research and practices and portrays Earth governance for justice, peace, respect and restitution. It features perspectives from writers who are Indigenous to place and writers whose ancestors are Indigenous elsewhere. There are diverse modes of academic expression, including traditional articles, poetry, film, and narrated artistic works. The "how" of sharing research is significant since the message is for academic and general readers. We believe that collectively this Special Issue offers a hopeful direction for humanity's relationship with rivers.

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Voicing Derbarl Yerrigan as a feminist anti‐colonial methodology

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Regeneration time: ancient wisdom for planetary wellbeing

Regeneration time: ancient wisdom for planetary wellbeing

Beyond reflective practice: Blogging-with Place as a diffractive practice for (re)imagining place-based education

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