{"title":"Attunement: Form in motion","authors":"Anna L. Tsing","doi":"10.1111/taja.12490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12490","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To nurture and protect even small fragments of liveability, we must get to know the lives of others, human and nonhuman. The Anthropocene collates projects of erasure, and we forget that we need companions. What might it take to bring us back into remembrance? I use the word ‘attunement’ in this essay to refer to attempts to get to know, through alignment, how others express themselves in the world. I'm particularly interested in forms of alignment that refuse Cartesian dreams of minds in contact.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"78-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12490","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Enrique Bernardou, David Bueno, Caroline E. Schuster
{"title":"The Fences: A webcomic on collective debt and ruination in Paraguay","authors":"Enrique Bernardou, David Bueno, Caroline E. Schuster","doi":"10.1111/taja.12495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12495","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>The Fences: A webcomic on collective debt and ruination in Paraguay</i> is a production of the Australian-Paraguayan comics studio CómicsClub comprised of anthropologist and writer Caroline E. Schuster and artists Enrique Bernardou and David Bueno. This webcomic began as an anthropological fieldwork study of climate financing - that is, novel financial arrangements that address the emerging weather-related risks to human communities of global warming, deforestation, and mass extinction. As we enter an era of ‘global weirding’ characterised by strange and extreme weather, insurance companies have welcomed the opportunity to cast themselves as financial ‘first responders,’ offering coverage for drought, floods, bushfires, and other so-called secondary perils that cost billions of dollars annually in property damage and reconstruction costs. The webcomic tells this story through interactive sequential art. Through branching timelines and ‘what if?’ scenarios, the project recuperates a critical speculative imagination and offers alternatives to financial modes of ‘buying the future.’</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"54-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12495","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142244796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Deger, Victoria Baskin Coffey, Caleb Kingston, Sebastian J. Lowe, Lisa Stefanoff
{"title":"Epistemic attunements: Experiments in intermedial anthropology","authors":"Jennifer Deger, Victoria Baskin Coffey, Caleb Kingston, Sebastian J. Lowe, Lisa Stefanoff","doi":"10.1111/taja.12492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12492","url":null,"abstract":"<p>‘Epistemic attunements – Regenerating anthroplogy's form’ is a collective experiment in expanding the expressive and analytic repertoire of anthropology and related disciplines. It features eleven peer-reviewed research articles published on a standalone website that has been designed, built, and maintained by our editorial collective, independent of Wiley's infrastructure and oversight. The result is a unique off-grid adventure in academic publishing that seeks to contribute to the re-orientation and outward opening of a discipline long committed to finding new ways to apprehend—and respond to—worlds undergoing constant, messy, and often-brutal transformation. In this essay we describe the making of this double special issue of <i>TAJA</i> to make the case for intermedial research and co-design as regenerative praxis.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"3-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12492","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Screen as stage","authors":"Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan","doi":"10.1111/taja.12497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12497","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"80-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thom van Dooren, Zoë Sadokierski, Myles Oakey, Timo Rissanen, Samuel Widin, Ross Crates
{"title":"A bird, a flock, a song, and a forest: The decline of Regent Honeyeater life","authors":"Thom van Dooren, Zoë Sadokierski, Myles Oakey, Timo Rissanen, Samuel Widin, Ross Crates","doi":"10.1111/taja.12503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12503","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The south-eastern corner of the Australian continent was once crisscrossed by the nomadic flight paths of the Regent Honeyeater. For hundreds of thousands of years, they winged their way up and down this vast continent. Today, however, the species is listed as critically endangered and is just clinging to existence. This multimedia essay tells the story of this decline, exploring the complex, co-shaping, relationships between individual birds and their flocks, their songs, and their forests. While these are relationships that might be glossed as being social, cultural, and ecological (respectively), and so belonging to separate domains of life, they are in reality delicately interwoven elements of what it is to be a Regent Honeyeater; relationships that, taken together, have been integral to the emergence and ongoing life of this species. In attending to the breakdown of these relationships in our present time, this essay seeks to develop new resources for storying loss in a time of ongoing extinctions. Bringing text into conversation with images and audio, the essay works to draw the reader/viewer/listener into an encounter with an unravelling world. Ultimately, our aim has been to create an essay in which the conceptual ideas, the design, and the biology of the species described, are brought into some sort of alignment that allows them to become mutually reinforcing elements of a storied encounter. Our reflection on the process of creating this essay are provided in the accompanying exegetical commentary.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"39-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12503","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wik Cha'prah – Cha tru chath: Wik blood speaks to you","authors":"Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung","doi":"10.1111/taja.12501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12501","url":null,"abstract":"<p>My work to date explores and plays with bringing the essence of relational Arnya spirituality into new spaces and forms of conveyance, depiction and articulation. I do this by revisitation, re-call and rearticulation of ancient songline eldership Voice teaching. Recall and retrieval from stored memory files articulates the knowledge narrative. The amalgamation of the organic internal filing system, the collective of kinship knowledge offerings ongoing and the digital produces transmutative narratives. Lived experience as inherited bloodline descendent further contextualises and embeds the spirit essence of voice. The body in which I dwell in, with all its parts in function, brings into being a new song vocabulary of Arnya through multi-modal construction and conveyance. In this process, the collective of kinship in all its parts, organic and other, remain embedded in the emergence and continuity of voice and flow.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"90-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12501","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kitkińike of recognition: In the direction of bibliographies as cultural landscapes","authors":"Gretchen Stolte","doi":"10.1111/taja.12500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12500","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This project explores bibliographies as cultural landscapes. Taking the Nez Perce term kitkińike (in the direction of) as a gesture that offers new theoretical grounds for considering the categorical power of bibliographies, I argue that bibliographies are more than just sources cited at the end of a publication. A dynamic and interactive interface performatively animates an existing list of texts about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and history with anticolonial purpose, so countering the thinking that Indigenous, Black and Queer authors are objects to be studied rather than academics to be cited. The exegesis defines a bibliography and its many manifestations and provides background on how this project came to being, giving credit to the people and institutions working to combat the erasure of Black, Queer, Indigenous and minority voices. The written piece argues that we need to move in the direction of (kitkińike) including a variety of voices in our citations while the web interface allows for the physical exploration of these concepts. Together, the paired research outcomes invite a novel journey across the cultural landscapes of bibliographic productions.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"98-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12500","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Margaret Nampitjinpa Boko, Rosalyn Boko, Lisa Stefanoff
{"title":"Winimaku ara papa wiimatjaraku and other stories","authors":"Margaret Nampitjinpa Boko, Rosalyn Boko, Lisa Stefanoff","doi":"10.1111/taja.12488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12488","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This audio-visual essay invites readers to enter a new intermedial archive of documentary paintings and stories by a celebrated and prolific multilingual Central Australian Aboriginal woman artist. Addressing our written text to intimate family and audiences from elsewhere, in multiple voices and modes of address, we offer an opportunity to consider the dynamics of creating, keeping and caring for memory through the affordances of digital co-creativity. These include what we term ‘painting remix animation’, a form of what co-author Rosalyn Boko calls <i>mixamila<span>n</span>i</i> (‘mixing together’ of different elements). Guided by the artist's vibrant palette and life-expressive practice, visitors to the article can move and rest amongst a variety of standpoints through which to attune to questions of history, memory, pictorial storytelling, love, friendship and joy. We hope that in this way, everyone can sense the world-making powers and poetics of colour and understand how our style of slow research towards digital mixamilani creates a new kind of archive for holding paintings carefully, outside of the art commodity market.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"117-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12488","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvisations towards a sonorous ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Sebastian J. Lowe","doi":"10.1111/taja.12496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12496","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Taonga puoro is a Māori instrumental tradition through which one cultivates an improvisational form of playing with the world. It does not follow musical notation. ‘Instruments’ vary from rocks, to bones, wood and other non-traditional materials, such as glass. They can be found in situ, or carefully crafted and gifted. Each performance is different, new and responsive not only to the riffing soundings of fellow humans but also to the wider worlds of more-than-human sensuous agency with which we attune, respond and participate. In both their materiality and their performativity, taonga puoro draws attention to points of convergence, in which histories, ancestors, human and more-than-human entities mingle as affective co-collaborators in a world already playing in co-composition. Thinking and riffing with this idea of co-composition as a practice of attuning to how I participate in the world that I have come to know, this sound–image–text article is made to revisit and dwell within moments of creative-critical world-making through playing with my close friend Jessica Kahukura (Te Ātihaunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngā Rauru, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa). It focuses particularly on my own practices as a Pākehā (non-Māori New Zealander) researcher-musician by attuning to my creative-critical positionality in relation to a broader politics and ethics of participation and invention.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"135-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12496","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fire's habit: Elemental media and the politics of apprehension","authors":"Daniel Fisher","doi":"10.1111/taja.12504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12504","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article weaves together text, photography, and audio recordings drawn from long-term ethnographic research in northern Australia to ask what fire is becoming as its everyday, urban manifestations are tethered to the diacritics of catastrophic bushfire, on the one hand, and Indigenous expertise and cultural fire, on the other. In exploring both menacing and mundane facets of urban fire in northern Australia, the article and accompanying exegesis offer ways to see and hear fire's capacities spilling beyond these enduring axes of public concern to differently animate and illuminate a city's eco-acoustic vitality, complexity, and Indigeneity.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"66-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12504","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142244797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}