Walking a relational path towards Indigenous-led collaborative futures

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1 Bawaka Country including Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr and Jill Sweeney, ‘Co-Becoming Bawaka: Towards a Relational Understanding of Place/Space’, Progress in Human Geography, 40(4), 2016, pp 455–475.

2 Deborah Bird Rose, Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness, Australian Heritage Commission, 1996.

3 Bawaka Country including, Laklak Burarrwanga Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd and Lara Daley, ‘Gapu, Water, Creates Knowledge and is a Life Force to be Respected’, PLOS Water, 1(4), 2022, p e0000020. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000020.

4 Max Liboiron, ‘Exchanging’, in Kat Jungnickel (ed), Transmissions: Critical Tactics for Making and Communicating Research, MIT Press, 2020, pp 89–107.

5 Lauren Tynan and Michelle Bishop, ‘Decolonizing the Literature Review: A Relational Approach’, Qualitative Inquiry, 29(3–4), 2023, pp 498–508.

6 Aunty Shaa Smith, Neeyan Smith, Sarah Wright, Paul Hodge and Lara Daley, ‘Yandaarra is Living Protocol’, Social & Cultural Geography, 21(7), 2020, pp 940–961.

7 Aunty Shaa Smith, Neeyan Smith, Sarah Wright, Lara Daley and Paul Hodge, The Dunggiirr Brothers and the Caring Song of the Whale, Allen & Unwin, 2022.

8 Aunty Shaa Smith, Neeyan Smith, Lara Daley, Sarah Wright and Paul Hodge, ‘Creation, Destruction and COVID: Heeding the Call of Country, Bringing Things into Balance’, Geographical Research, 59(2), 2021, pp 160–168.

9 For examples of calls by Aboriginal scholars to address these colonizing legacies in research see for example Ambelin Kwaymullina, ‘Research, Ethics and Indigenous Peoples: An Australian Indigenous Perspective on Three Threshold Considerations for Respectful Engagement’, AlterNative, 12(4), 2016, pp 437–449; Lester Rigney, ‘Internationalization of an Indigenous Anticolonial Cultural Critique of Research Methodologies: A Guide to Indigenist Research Methodology and Its Principles’, Wicazo SaReview, 14(2), 1999, pp 109–121.

10 Bawaka Country including Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd and Lara Daley, ‘Author-ity of/as Bawaka Country’, Australian Archaeology, forthcoming.

11 Lara Daley and Sarah Wright, ‘Unsettling Time(s): Reconstituting the When of Urban Radical Politics’, Political Geography, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102707.

12 Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck and Wayne K. Yang (eds), Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education: Mapping the Long View, Routledge, 2018.

13 Wanta Steve Jampijinpa Patrick, ‘Pulya-ranyi Winds of Change’, Cultural Studies Review, 21(1), 2015, pp 121–131.

14 Martin Nakata, ‘Indigenous Knowledge and the Cultural Interface: Underlying Issues at the Intersection of Knowledge and Information Systems’, IFLA Journal, 28(5–6), 2002, pp 281–291.

15 For discussions around decolonizing posthumanism see for example, Juanita Sundberg, ‘Decolonizing Posthumanist Geographies’, Cultural Geographies, 21(1), 2014, pp 33–47; Zoe Todd, ‘An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word for Colonialism’, Journal of Historical Sociology, 29(1), 2016, pp 4–22.

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Lara Daley

Lara Daley is a research fellow in human geography at the University of Newcastle. Her research engages Indigenous-led geographies and ongoing colonization in urban and semi-urban Indigenous/settler colonial contexts. She is a member of Yandaarra and the Bawaka Collective, two Indigenous-led collaborations with a focus on Indigenous sovereignties and Indigenous-led ways of caring for the Country and addressing socio-environmental change.