SCWK2009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Terra Nullius
7 Aug 2018
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Terra nullius: over 300 countries present, land was still declared terra nullius. Aboriginal worldviews: epistemology, ways of knowing, ontology, ways of being, axiology, ways of doing. Kanyini (connectedness: kurunpa, spirituality, walytja, family and kinship, tjupurrka, beliefs, murra, land, relatedness (martin, connection to ancestors and spirits and 7 entities. Land: plants, humanity is tied up with that. "worldviews are frameworks for interpreting and exploring the world, supporting thw way we act and relate to our world" "prior to contact with colonisers indigenous nations had social, political, economic and cultural structures which emerged from their specific worldviews" (poonwassie & Charter, 2001: terra nullius wiped this idea out. "deeply (cid:396)ooted (cid:449)ith (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t(cid:396)y mothe(cid:396) ea(cid:396)th; fathe(cid:396) sky; g(cid:396)a(cid:374)d(cid:373)a moo(cid:374): knowing your families, countries, ensures connection to language, significant sites and land within their tribal area. Identity definition was based on a western idea: due to diversity of first nations people (huggins) Identity definition was based on a western idea.
