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Idea of country: reframing post-disaster recovery in indigenous Taiwan settings / Hsu, Minna; Howitt, Richard; Chi, Chun-Chieh

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In Australian Aboriginal thinking, the idea of ‘Country’ comprises complex ideas about relationships and connection. It simultaneously encompasses territorial affiliation, a social identification and cosmological orientation. It draws attention to what might be glossed as people-to-environment, people-to-people and people-to-cosmos relations. These relations influence disaster responses, but are rarely mobilised explicitly in shaping formal recovery and reconstruction efforts. Colonial disruption of connections to Country imposed new practices and presences into contemporary Indigenous geographies and is often reinforced in disaster settings. This paper considers more recent disruptions arising from post-disaster recovery in Taiwan, arguing that the idea of Country offers a powerful way of framing cultural and social dimensions of post-disaster relief and recovery for government agencies, non-government organisations and research alike.

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Intercultural capacity deficits: contested geographies of coexistence in natural resource management / Howitt, Richard; Doohan, Kim; Suchet-Pearson, Sandie; Cross, Sherrie

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2013.

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Focusing on the coexistence of competing and contested interests in intercultural natural resource management (NRM) systems in Australia and Malaysia, this paper explores the ways in which ontological pluralism and the interplay of socio-cultural, political-economic and biophysical influences shape NRM systems. We aim to foster a discursive space in which to reframe the challenges of capacity building in the rapidly changing spaces of intercultural NRM systems. The paper synthesizes the conceptual arguments of field research to conclude that capacity deficits of dominant institutions, processes and knowledge systems drive many systemic failures in land and sea management affecting Indigenous peoples. We advocate urgent action to build intercultural competence and new capacities and competencies in those institutions. The paper reframes intercultural NRM in terms of coexistence and invites wider debate about these 'new geographies of coexistence' in intercultural NRM systems.

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Indigenous Rights ; Coexistence ; Intercultural Competence ; Intercultural Natural Resource Management Systems

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New geographies of coexistence: reconsidering cultural interfaces in resource and environmental governance / Howitt, Richard; Lunkapis, Gaim; Suchet-Pearson, Sandie; Miller, Fiona

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2013.

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Economic system ; Global Environmental Governance ; Environmental Governance ; Asia - Pacific Region ; Culture Heritage

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