Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This audio‐visual essay works with the epistemic imperatives of our research subject—the sands and saltwater of a small stretch of coastline in northern Australia. Orchestrating a series of sounds and images together with a gentle rhythm of text‐based Yolŋu (human/Indigenous) elaboration, we seek to enable others to attune to a material dynamics of collaboration and co‐creation made manifestly palpable in the kinetic zones of coastal life. Rather than either simply telling, or showing, we invite our ‘readers’ to enter into a slow process of attuning to the forms of sensuous instruction offered directly from the wäŋa (land, environment, Country). In this way we orientate towards research as a shared and emergent processes of becoming knowledgeable with more‐than‐human worlds. The result is a Yolŋu‐led digital experiment in sovereign knowledge production: a modelling of a site‐specific, participatory onto‐epistemics intended to inspire others towards the possibilities of creative, relational modes of more‐than‐human research.
DOI: 10.1111/taja.12494
Institutions: Charles Darwin University, Aarhus University
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,870
OpenAlex ID: W4402579469