Something
A Something can also be experienced as a startling moment of synchronicity and convergence in the researcher’s lived reality, whether on-Country or in cyberspace or a workspace. It may emerge as an unexpected or unexplainable synchronicity within the data itself. (Yunkaporta & Moodie, 2021) Stumbling across a rather large chunk of text that encapsulates the […]
Thinking with your hands
“… it is often far more time-consuming to attempt to describe hand-work in words than simply to demonstrate it.” (Smith, 2022) “…finally, and most significantly, if we conceive of skills as arising at the interface of the human senses and human body with the natural environment…” (Smith, 2022) “Thinking with your hands” – as a […]
Knowledge systems and making space for the embodied and experiential
Liberating myself from technical specifications of word count, third person voice, tone and choice of words is the power given to me in my own blog space – my ba, if you will – where I can play around with bits of ‘knowledge’ and rearrange them as I will. There are new concepts that I […]
A multi-generational inheritance of cultural capital
From the generation of global nomads/third culture kids (TCK) who grew up before the advent of the internet, reading through contemporary works by TCKs of younger generations has been eye-opening. I’d always been aware of the transformation of my own experience of relationships as communications technology changed, but I don’t think I’d realized that there […]
Pondering the standpoint of a third culture kid (TCK) exploring plural knowledge systems
“[We] reflected on what it meant to be Brown academics (Curtis-Boles et al., 2012; Muhs et al. 2012) while personally navigating multiple cultural and work boundaries as transnational women (Joseph 2014).” (Lahiri-Roy, Belford, & Sum, 2021) Looking for a standpoint from which to respectfully approach different knowledge systems, particularly local, traditional, and Indigenous ones, led […]
Knowledge Creation through Metaphors of Traditional Craftsmanship
Ten years ago, most of the academics working in the area of indigenous knowledge represented anthropology, development sociology, and geography. Today … important contributions are also being made in the fields of ecology, soil science, veterinary medicine, forestry, human health, aquatic science, management,botany, zoology, agronomy, agricultural economics, rural sociology, mathematics, …. fisheries, range management, information […]
Industrial Europe’s contribution to REculture
Before I continue, let me just link to an introductory background on my concept of REculture. Originally, a group blog on a now defunct website called Posterous that I’d begun in July 2009, choosing it over Tumblr – a decision I now regret given Tumblr survived where Posterous did not. However, within a couple of […]
I am thinking about thinking
“Knowledge creation is a continuous self-transcending process” Nonaka, Konno, & Toyama, 2001 My introduction to Yunkaporta’s work led me to dive more deeply into the exploration of thinking about diverse knowledge systems. I can taste unformed thoughts in my mind but do not yet have the words to manifest them. What could help me help […]
Reflections in the sand: Integrating Indigenous ways of thinking into design-centered creative practice
Yunkaporta’s 5 minds, derived as bridge to Indigenous thinking from the principles of the Aboriginal knowledge system (2019) You can’t help but look at these 5 minds that Tyson Yunkaporta has derived from the principles of the Aboriginal knowledge system as a means for us to embrace Indigenous thinking and think how well they reflect […]
Reflections on transformations
“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.” from “Warning” by Jenny Joseph Four years ago, in the honour of being […]
