Totally Wild'? Colonising discourses, indigenous knowledges and managing wildlife
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8093845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandie Suchet (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-157 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Geographer (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9182 • E-ISSN: 1465-3311 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00049180220150972 |
| OpenAlex | W1967240131 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper offers a critique of politically dominant Eurocentric notions of culture and nature in Australia. In particular, it interrogates Eurocentric concepts of animals, wildlife and management, and seeks to unsettle these concepts by considering some of the diverse ways in which indigenous people in Australia know country, animals and wilderness. Using the metaphor of Eurocentric ontology in a hall of mirrors, the paper argues that Eurocentric claims of universalism for naturalised discourses that assume the adequacy of a nature-culture binary form a very fragile circular argument. Self-justifying the imposition and assertion of Eurocentric concepts and practices is a mechanistic reflection of the particular terms of reference set by Eurocentric knowledges and a denial of multiple ways of knowing. The dangers this presents are illustrated by examining how concepts and practices underlying wildlife management have self-justified (continuing) colonising processes in Australia. Finally, the paper attempts to open up spaces that address these dangers. Situated engagement is introduced as an approach which could shatter the hall of mirrors--by clearly embodying and emplacing all thought and action, universalised boundaries can be recognised and breached and new possibilities imagined and realised. Keywords: Indigenous KnowledgesWildlife ManagementNatureWildernessPostcolonialismSituated Engagement
Argument (complex analysis · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Indigenous · Metaphor · Situated · Sociology · Wilderness · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Philosophy · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Relational knowing as method and practice
Teaching Indigenous geographies
Indigenous systems knowledge applied to protocols for governance and inquiry
Plastic pollution as waste colonialism in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Only Planet
Influence of environmental governance regimes on the capacity of Indigenous Peoples to participate in conservation management
Placing Well-Being
An exploration into political ecology and nonhuman agency
Significant Tree Legislation in South Australia
Notions of Time and Sentience
Stories of crossings and connections from Bawaka, North East Arnhem Land, Australia
Seeing double in art and geoscience
De-centring White ruralities
Rethinking Research Sites as Wilderness Activity Sites
Deep-colonising narratives and emotional labour
Producing Provincial Space
Cultural Seascapes, Regional Connections, and Colonial Powers in the Southwestern Pacific
Between “Wild” and “Tame”
Between the state and the yard
The Limits to Participation in Dis‐equilibrium Ecology
The Retention, Revival, and Subjugation of Indigenous Fire Knowledge through Agency Fire Fighting in Eastern Australia and California
Practicing Sociogeomorphology
Experiencing and writing Indigeneity, rurality and gender
Narratives of transition/non-transition towards low carbon futures within English rural communities
Decolonizing the production of geographical knowledges? reflections on research with indigenous musicians
Teaching Indigenous geography in a neo-colonial world
Poststructuralist ethics
Environmental issues
Making the Invisible Visible
At Least I Don't Live in Vegemite Valley
Everyday human (in)securities in protected urban nature – Collaborative conservation at Macassar/Wolfgat dunes nature reserves, Cape Town, South Africa
Situated justice in environmental decision-making
Policy problems, publics, and the power of definition
Conflict in Common
What is the Problem? Usefulness, the cultural turn, and social research for natural resource management
Human–Nature Relations in Suburban Gardens
Valuing Water
To protect and conserve
Experts' Perspectives on the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge and Science in Wet Tropics Natural Resource Management
Butchulla perspectives on dingo displacement and agency at K’gari-Fraser Island, Australia
Managing the Borders
Qualitative methods II
Putting Animals Back Together, Taking Commodities Apart
That means the fish are fat
Social geographies
Animal geographies I
C aring as C ountry
Rethinking the building blocks
A Beautiful Soaking Rain
Political animals? On animals as subjects in an enlarged political geography
Cuteifying' spaces and staging marine animals for Chinese middle-class consumption
Decentring 1788
All Strings Attached
Knowledge co-production praxis in sustainability science
Reconciling 22,000 years of landscape openness in a renowned wilderness
We are Country-Country mentors us
From wilderness to WildCountry
How "wild" are hatchery salmon? Conservation policy and the contested framing of nature in Canada and the United States
Wildness as vitality
Just Add Water
Bottles, Bores, and Boats
Mediated animal geographies
Languages of sensing
Why do they burn the 'bush'? Fire, rural livelihoods, and conservation in Zambia
Stop Burying the Lede
Outback' Romance? A Reading of Nature and Heterosexuality in Rural Australia
Co-becoming with angophora
Rethinking Resource Management
Culture and nature at the Adelaide Zoo
Global Ethics and Environment
Liberation Ecologies
Wildlife and world views
Situating knowledges
Edge of Empire
The baby and the bath water
Nurturing Culture Through Country
Handbook of Cultural Geography
Culture and Nature at the Adelaide Zoo
Wild(er)ness
Frontiers, Borders, Edges
Nature, Self, and Gender
Multiple Voices
A walk on the wild side
Geography's Empire
Telling Country
Between and among the boundaries of culture
| Unique citing works | 67 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,91 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 66 |