Presentation Type
Presentation
Location
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
Start Date
9-8-2017 12:30 PM
Description
The vast Kimberley has been the focus of extensive multi-disciplinary, multi-sited research projects, such as those inspired through ecological, arts, linguistic, heritage, health, historical, and native title inquiry. Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons who live in the Kimberley, visit from time to time, or undertake the research never to return, have done a great deal of this work. Via reflexive attention to arriving, departing but never quite leaving the Kimberley, and in-depth consideration of the cultural, ethical, theoretical and practical need for place-based, human-inspired interactions over time and space, this paper explores what it means to be both ‘in’ and ‘out’ of place, and the sometimes invisible value of return.
Recommended Citation
Toussaint, Sandy, "Arriving and departing, but never quite leaving: Kimberley research narratives over times, persons and places" (2017). Talking Heads Seminar Series. 8.
https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_talkingheads/2017/schedule/8
Arriving and departing, but never quite leaving: Kimberley research narratives over times, persons and places
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
The vast Kimberley has been the focus of extensive multi-disciplinary, multi-sited research projects, such as those inspired through ecological, arts, linguistic, heritage, health, historical, and native title inquiry. Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons who live in the Kimberley, visit from time to time, or undertake the research never to return, have done a great deal of this work. Via reflexive attention to arriving, departing but never quite leaving the Kimberley, and in-depth consideration of the cultural, ethical, theoretical and practical need for place-based, human-inspired interactions over time and space, this paper explores what it means to be both ‘in’ and ‘out’ of place, and the sometimes invisible value of return.
