Kulini

Ethical listening and the curse of the externally imagined

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ID20053464
AuthorsSam Osborne (0000-0002-0158-0292, corresponding author)
Year2023
Pages149-161
Publication date2023-04-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueGlobal Perspectives and New Challenges in Culturally Responsive Pedagogies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003335719-16
OpenAlexW4362664429
ISBN9781003335719
LanguageEN
Citations received4

For some decades, Indigenous scholars have railed against (mis)representations of their communities, epistemologies and aspirations by outsider researchers, education institutions and policy makers. They argue that those with power need to listen to Indigenous peoples and then to act in good faith, to join in the task of decolonial work. This chapter discusses listening in Foucauldian terms of listening as a technology of the self and explores the richness and depth that working through an Aboriginal language lens offers in orienting listeners to Anangu (Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara) epistemologies, ontologies and cosmologies towards decolonial practice. In this chapter, Anangu perspectives on listening (kulini) and culturally responsive pedagogies are shared and contrasted with contemporaneous colonial voices and approaches that shape remote education policy and funding. This process highlights a pressing need to move from existing colonial, monologic approaches towards practice that prioritises ethical listening (kulini) and power-sensitive dialogue

Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Curse · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Communication · Psychology

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