From climate catastrophes to sudden wars, the world faces conflicts of unprecedented scale. Yet around the globe, Indigenous leaders continue to move forward with determination and hope. Leaders demand change, resisting the destruction of the environment and suggesting solutions to today’s global crisis. Age-old practices are experiencing a cultural revival and the lessons call for all of us to walk alongside Indigenous peoples. In the face of crisis and the progress of technology, this book shows how to stand with Indigenous peoples through uncertainty and chaos. How to stand with Indigenous peoples is about how to listen, how to walk together and how to act.
Author(s): Olivia Guntarik
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 251
City: Cham
Foreword: By Michael Taussig
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Wild Things
References
Part I: Situated Storytelling
Chapter 2: Walking Place
Place-Making and Movement
References
Chapter 3: Reading Place
Time and Tide
Moments in Time
Personal Communication, Ongoing
References
Chapter 4: Storying Place
Resisting Paths of Least Resistance
Writerly Intentions
How Can Our Writing Transform from Magical Thinking into alchemy into Art?
More Than ‘Just Stories’
References
Chapter 5: Rematriation
EARTH/Interior Space/the Confessional
Cut up
Cut Throat
Borneo Is…
Cross-Cultural Collaboration…
As a Shareable Act…
Dancing
MOTHER/Returning the Gift/Learning to Dance (Again)
SKY/An Upside Down World/Dream Places
Part II: Technologies of the Body
Chapter 6: Swimming
Immersion
Permeability
Waves
Returns
Resonance
Clearing
Camouflage
Breath
References
Chapter 7: Healers
Film, Voice, Embodiment
Walking Through Gardens
Knowledge Holders and Plant Life
Returning to Guacamayas
Medicinal Healing Recipes
Film as Self-Representation
References
Chapter 8: Harmers
Being There After the Fact
Hope and Despair
Digital Gate Keepers
Shifting Sentiments
References
Chapter 9: Gathering
Walking Through the Streets of Melbourne
Collective Dreaming
What and Who Is Gathering Here?
Figurative Time
References
Part III: Future States
Chapter 10: Afterlife
New Sites of Mourning
Socialized Mourning in the Digital Era
Self-Care and Selfie Culture
Trolls and Terror
Digital Afterlives
The Continuum
References
Chapter 11: Ritual and Rhyme
Play as Creative Labour
Ritual Logic and Life Cycle Principles
Beyond Economic Value
Pervasive Games as Playbour
Acknowledging and Amplifying World Knowing
Envisioning Future States
Reflection in Action, Ongoing Practice
References
Chapter 12: Stolen Lands
Rebetiko Memories
Dad and the Ottomans
The Skatopsychos
Speculating
Extending Histories/Intergenerational Listening
References
Chapter 13: Song and Survival
To Listen-Learn and Labour
Finding a Way
Gathering Around the Communal Fire
Storytelling Past Lives
New Futures in the New World Order
Storytelling as Exchange Value
Restorative Knowledge Transmission
Custodial Rights and the Indigenous Imaginary
References
Afterword: Song of Songs
Mothering
References
Index
