- Title
- Songspirals Bring Country Into Existence: Singing More-Than-Human and Relational Creativity
- Creator
- Country, Bawaka; Burarrwanga, Laklak; Ganambarr, Ritjilili; Ganambarr-Stubbs, Merrkiyawuy; Ganambarr, Banbapuy; Maymuru, Djawundil; Lloyd, Kate; Wright, Sarah; Suchet-Pearson, Sandie; Daley, Lara
- Relation
- Qualitative Inquiry Vol. 28, Issue 5, p. 435-447
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778004211068192
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Songspirals bring Country into existence. Co-authored by a more-than-human, Yolŋu-led collaboration, this article centers Yolŋu understandings of time and place and elaborates on our work together through a spiral-based framework. Our Indigenous and Country-led Collective nourishes and shares some Yolŋu understandings of songspirals to enable, enrich, and awaken Country; to challenge and expand Western academic frameworks; and to contribute toward more responsive relationships between people and places. To sing or keen the spirals now means the ongoing creation of place and people—an emergent, more-than-human creativity that literally creates and re-creates existence. Songspirals are more-than-human processes that need active engagement to nourish positive relationships and to heal damaged ones. Songspirals are a keening/singing, of, with, by, for, and as Country.
- Subject
- indigenous epistemologies; ethnicity and race; indigenous approaches to knowledge; indigenous ethics; reconceptualizing collaboration; decolonizing the academy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1473830
- Identifier
- uon:49122
- Identifier
- ISSN:1077-8004
- Language
- eng
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