OceaniaPub Date : 2024-07-14DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5407
Kirsty Wissing
{"title":"Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia. By Emma Kowal. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press. 2023. Pp: xv + 248. Price: US$27.95 and 104.95.","authors":"Kirsty Wissing","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141649820","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}
OceaniaPub Date : 2024-07-14DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5403
Ming‐Jen Wu
{"title":"From Colonial Order to Decolonial Future: Colonial Mimesis and Identity among the Papua Besena Movement","authors":"Ming‐Jen Wu","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5403","url":null,"abstract":"During the 1970s and 1980s, a nationalist movement called Papua Besena emerged in Papua New Guinea. On the one hand, the group believed that the Papuan people were neglected by Australian colonisation and campaigned for Papuan sovereignty, either by creating an independent state or joining Australia as a state. On the other hand, as some scholars and politicians have pointed out, Papua Besena's rhetoric of colonial neglect failed to appreciate that Papuan people received more investment in colonial economic development, training, and infrastructure than most Papua New Guineans due to their proximity to the colonial centre. The Australian colonisation of the territories also changed due to pressure from the United Nations visiting mission. Yet despite the Papuan people's access to development, they still felt neglected and humiliated being so close to the colonial centre. To answer this paradox, the concept of mimesis, particularly the idea of colonial mimicry and mimesis as a source of identity, might shed new light on the political history and consciousness of Papuans. This paper suggests that Papuans' access to space, training, and positions was restricted in and around Port Moresby. Many Papuans took up the colonial moral order and mimicked the colonial perspective visible in the capital, projecting it into their decolonial future and their relationships with New Guineans and Australia. In other words, the Papuans' proximity to the colonial space and process contributed to their experiences of neglect and their identity simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141650451","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}
OceaniaPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5393
Alana Brekelmans, Richard J. Martin
{"title":"Frontier Narratives That Take on Flesh: Tracing Legacy, Labour, and Legitimacy in Outback Queensland, Australia","authors":"Alana Brekelmans, Richard J. Martin","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5393","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we explore the notion of legacy through the ways graziers in Outback Queensland, Australia, draw on material, narrative, and embodied traces of past ‘events’ to emplot their lives during times of uncertainty. Through an ethnography of pastoral work and storytelling on stations, or ranches, we show how settler‐colonial narratives of the frontier and legacy circulate as affective forces in pastoralists' daily lives and become embodied through labour. We argue that pastoral families respond to both the failure of modernist grand narratives and more personal events by renegotiating stories of the frontier to legitimate their ongoing presence in Outback Australia and give meaning to their lives. While these narratives are existentially useful for pastoralists, we argue that they remain tied to exclusionary and unsustainable structures and ideologies that prevent pastoralists from adjusting to contemporary crises.","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140404450","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}
OceaniaPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5392
Samuel Curkpatrick, Daniel Wilfred
{"title":"The Wind Is Always Blowing: Generative Crosscurrents of Ethnographic Dialogue in Australia","authors":"Samuel Curkpatrick, Daniel Wilfred","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5392","url":null,"abstract":"Live conversations and writing play an important role in ethnographic research that seeks to develop understanding across cultural differences. Both forms of communication need not remain distinct: written dialogue can develop critical thought while foregrounding the shared contexts and relational impetuses of communication across cultures. Set against the background of recent styles in ethnographic writing about and with Yolŋu people, this article extends from conversations about wata (wind), exploring collaborative practices (music performance and teaching) and approaches to writing ethnography that respond to a core quality of wind as a medium that connects. Wata is a significant theme within manikay (public ceremonial song) that connects Wägilak with their ancestral lands, even as it blows through the country of other groups, allowing new relationships and understandings to be formed. Giving rise to concerns of connection, difference, and movement, wata is a significant theme for considering the ways narrative traditions can shape relationality and give impetus to intellectual inquiry.","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140408081","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}
OceaniaPub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5391
{"title":"Correction to “Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human‐Water Relationships”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5391","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139797750","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}
OceaniaPub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5391
{"title":"Correction to “Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human‐Water Relationships”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5391","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139857650","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}
OceaniaPub Date : 2023-12-10DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5387
Jadran Mimica
{"title":"If the Yagwoia were the Gimi…: A Reply to Gillison's Critical Appraisal of ‘Stalked by the Malignant Spirit…’","authors":"Jadran Mimica","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138981959","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}
OceaniaPub Date : 2023-12-10DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5389
Ryan Schram
{"title":"Anarchy and the Art of Listening. By JamesSlotta. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University Press. 2023. Pp: xii + 201. Price: US$31.95.","authors":"Ryan Schram","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138982512","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}
OceaniaPub Date : 2023-12-03DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5384
Ute Eickelkamp
{"title":"Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human‐Water Relationships","authors":"Ute Eickelkamp","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5384","url":null,"abstract":"I explore by way of a thought experiment the temporality of waterways in the context of restorative art interventions. As a substance that moves and gives form, and as a medium that retains and discharges, connects and divides, water that flows can make tangible the experiential flow of return and anticipation. Arguably, this bi‐directional structuring of time is pivotal to transformative and reparative action. If restoration means ‘going back’ to memories of ecologies and places, it does so with a generative thrust forward. This is the life‐enabling orientation of recuperation that I discern connects diverse phenomenological concepts: Deborah Bird Rose's ‘multispecies knots of ethical time’, the idea of ‘afterness’ as developed by Gerhard Richter, Gaston Bachelard's ‘rhythmic time’, and Gerald Vizenor's ‘survivance’. I bring these concepts to: (a) artistic water restoration projects that make imaginable, palpable, and real sustainable human‐water relationships, with a focus on the public works in Sydney by Turpin + Crawford Studio; (b) perspectives on water and time that Australian Indigenous thinkers have shared during my ethnographic research; and (c) the re‐naturalization of a river in Germany's postindustrial Ruhr region. I propose that thinking with water ethically and recognizing its temporal diversity opens up perspectives on the deindustrialisation of rivers and other bodies of water.","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138605782","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}