Click the star to add/remove an item to/from your individual schedule.
You need to be logged in to avail of this functionality, and to see the links to virtual rooms.

P10a


has 1 film 1
Mapping new ontological relationships to redefine settler-colonial futures 
Convenors:
Annick Thomassin (The Australian National University)
Frances Morphy (The Australian National University)
Send message to Convenors
Discussants:
Jason Field (Australia National University)
Sylvie Poirier (Université Laval)
Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Wednesday 1 December, -
Time zone: Australia/Sydney

Short Abstract:

In settler-colonial contexts, the coexistence of diverse worlds, and the implications of their entanglement, is being explored through collaborative mapping and digital storytelling projects. This panel explores how mapping these new ontological relationships can redefine settler-colonial futures.

Long Abstract:

This panel will be an occasion to explore and share information about the potential of digital tools such as collaborative mapping and digital storytelling for the representation of Indigenous peoples’ engagement with their territories of life (akin to ‘Country’ in the Australian context) in settler-colonial contexts.

The coexistence of heterogeneous settler and Indigenous worlds, and the implications of their enmeshed and co-constituted existence, are increasingly being explored through the use of such digital tools. Informed by contemporary Indigenous movements of everyday resurgence, inscribed in actions that revitalise, maintain, strengthen or generate meaningful relationships with territories of life and all the relations they encompass, this panel will feature projects which challenge dominant settler understandings of and engagement with territories of life.

Digital tools may be deployed, initially, to illuminate Indigenous relational and reciprocal engagements with the land, the sea, the sky, and with humans and other-than-human beings. But the contributors to the panel will be encouraged to go beyond a discourse that seeks recognition of and respect for Indigenous peoples’ knowledge, perspectives and practices, and their integration into the frame of settler ontologies, to consider how such tools can be employed in supporting the renegotiation of the terms of coexistence between Indigenous peoples and settler-colonial institutions. They will reflect on the entangled relations between co-existing settler and Indigenous worlds and on the need for a transformation of the dominant settler-state worldview that will result in a genuinely new ontology. Contributors to the panel are thus strongly encouraged to consider how their work, using these approaches, might be useful for instigating a shift in persistent settler-colonial worldviews and for negotiating new ways of being and engaging with the world.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 30 November, 2021, -
Panel Video visible to paid-up delegates