Learning to care for Dangaba
In a Kimberley place-based cultural story, Dangaba is a woman whose Country holds poison gas. Her story shows the importance of cultural ways of understanding and caring for Country, especially hazardous places. The authors contrast this with a corporate story of fossil fuel, illustrating the diverg...
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| description | In a Kimberley place-based cultural story, Dangaba is a woman whose Country holds poison gas. Her story shows the importance of cultural ways of understanding and caring for Country, especially hazardous places. The authors contrast this with a corporate story of fossil fuel, illustrating the divergent discourses and approaches to place. Indigenous and local peoples and their knowledge, cultures, laws, philosophies and practices are vitally important to Indigenous lifeways and livelihoods, and critically significant to the long-term health and well-being of people and place in our locality, region and world. We call for storying and narratives from the pluriverse of sociocultural voices to be a meaningful part of environmental education and to be implemented in multiple places of learning. To know how to hear, understand and apply the learnings from place-based story is to know how to move beyond a normalised worldview of separation, alienation, individualism, infinite growth, consumption, extraction, commodification and craving. To know how to see, feel, describe and reflect upon experience, concepts and practice is to find ways to move towards radical generosity, mutuality of becoming, embodied kinship, wisdom, humility and respect. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4ed4f9833e75437f94fe3b5dadaedba92025-08-20T03:40:44ZengCambridge University PressAustralian Journal of Environmental Education0814-06262049-775X2023-09-013937538910.1017/aee.2023.30Learning to care for DangabaAnne Poelina0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6461-7681Yin Paradies1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9927-7074Sandra Wooltorton2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8677-870XEdwin Lee Mulligan3Laurie Guimond4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8562-1524Libby Jackson-Barrett5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3662-657XMindy Blaise6https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2476-9407Nulungu Research Institute, The University of Notre Dame Australia - Broome Campus, Broome, WA, Australia Water Justice Hub, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT, AustraliaDeakin University, Burwood, VIC, AustraliaNulungu Research Institute, The University of Notre Dame Australia - Broome Campus, Broome, WA, Australia Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, AustraliaNulungu Research Institute, The University of Notre Dame Australia - Broome Campus, Broome, WA, AustraliaDepartment of Geography, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, QC, CanadaFaculty of Education and Arts, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, AustraliaCentre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, AustraliaIn a Kimberley place-based cultural story, Dangaba is a woman whose Country holds poison gas. Her story shows the importance of cultural ways of understanding and caring for Country, especially hazardous places. The authors contrast this with a corporate story of fossil fuel, illustrating the divergent discourses and approaches to place. Indigenous and local peoples and their knowledge, cultures, laws, philosophies and practices are vitally important to Indigenous lifeways and livelihoods, and critically significant to the long-term health and well-being of people and place in our locality, region and world. We call for storying and narratives from the pluriverse of sociocultural voices to be a meaningful part of environmental education and to be implemented in multiple places of learning. To know how to hear, understand and apply the learnings from place-based story is to know how to move beyond a normalised worldview of separation, alienation, individualism, infinite growth, consumption, extraction, commodification and craving. To know how to see, feel, describe and reflect upon experience, concepts and practice is to find ways to move towards radical generosity, mutuality of becoming, embodied kinship, wisdom, humility and respect.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0814062623000307/type/journal_articleIndigenous knowledgeenvironmental educationworldviewIndigenous lifewaysdecolonisationpast-presence |
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