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Weaving the pluriverse: childhood encounters with the undergound worlds of Birrarung Marr
Children's geographies, Vol.First online, pp.1-17
05/04/2023
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Abstract
This article weaves together a series of encounters between young children, trees, and mycelium within the multispecies worlds of Birrarung Marr, an ancient Aboriginal meeting place in the city of Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Using creative ethnographic methods, it focuses on children's involvement in an immersive theatre-making project exploring the intricate subterranean networks of communication and care between She-Oak trees and rhizo-mycelial networks in the local area. Weaving ethnographic description and careful engagements with Indigenous philosophies, the concept of pluriversality is evoked to consider how multispecies worlds are variously assembled, stolen, sustained, exhausted, regenerated, and interwoven along Birrarung Marr. Disrupting Western developmental models of childhood, the article argues that children's animistic understandings of multispecies relations can inform responses to climate change which are sensitive to the intricate dependency relations that sustain life.
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- Title
- Weaving the pluriverse: childhood encounters with the undergound worlds of Birrarung Marr
- Creators
- David Rousell - RMIT University
- Publication Details
- Children's geographies, Vol.First online, pp.1-17
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Grant note
- Human Research Ethics Committee
- Identifiers
- 991013101602402368
- Copyright
- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article