The Problem of Scale in Indigenous Knowledge
A Perspective from Northern Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4876963 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marc Wohling (Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | art1 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-02574-140101 |
| OpenAlex | W1507476591 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 20 |
Over the last decade, indigenous knowledge has been widely touted by researchers and natural resource managers as a valuable contributor to natural resource management and biodiversity conservation. In Australia, the concept of indigenous knowledge has gained such rapid currency that it has tended toward an essentialized and universal truth rather than remaining a diverse range of highly localized and contested knowledge. In this paper, I undertake a critical analysis of some of the current issues around the interpretation and application of indigenous knowledge and its relationship with natural resource management in northern Australia. Through a focus on how indigenous knowledge operates at a range of scales, I argue that indigenous knowledge is not adapted to the scales and kinds of disturbances that contemporary society is exerting on natural systems. Rather than being realistic about the limitations of indigenous knowledge, I argue that nonindigenous interpretations of indigenous knowledge have propelled us toward reified meanings, abstracted concepts, and an information-based taxonomy of place. The result can be the diminishing and ossifying of a dynamic living practice and the failure to recognize expressions of indigeneity in contemporary forms
Biology · Cartography · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Indigenous · Regional science · Traditional knowledge · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,76 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |