13 articles in this issue
Estelle Castro-Koshy,Géraldine Le Roux
This special issue on “Environmental Artistic Practices and Indigeneity: In(ter)ventions, Recycling, Sovereignty" constitutes a body of creative contributions and academic articles addressing numerous forms of artistic practices of the Pacific Islands, Au... see more
Sam Watson
An Aboriginal woman was walking in a city street. It is suburban Melbourne. She has bought a small axe from the hardware store. To her this axe is a traditional woman’s tool. She paid for the axe. She has not done anything wrong. She has broken no laws. S... see more
Yvette Holt
“spinifex scriptures” and “desert analysis” deconstruct through poetry and photography the post-colonial presence of Christian armour, and environmental desert rust – recycled through the economical chambers of abandonment.
Craig Santos Perez
This collection of eight orginal poems of the Pacific Islands focus on the theme "Environmental artistic practices and indigeneity: In(ter)ventions, recycling, sovereignty". The first group of three poems, "Age of Plastic," "Rings of Fire," and "Halloween... see more
Tevaite Rey
Tevaite Rey’s whole being, her philosophy of life, and all the feelings she has experienced in her life lead her to share her perspectives on contemporary Polynesia through her artworks. Her aim is to exist with the names and lands she has inherited as a ... see more
Flora Aurima Devatine
As a writer and poet, I am particularly interested in language(s), in words in Tahitian and in French. Since 2016, I have explored themes of survival, duration, continuity, and transmission through poetry and artworks made of materials evoking cracks, fra... see more
Sarah Jane Moore
“Worlding with Oysters” is presented through text, story, song, poetics and image. It explores the opportunities that connecting with nature offers to communities of practice. It asks the collectively conscious to imagine a time oysters spawn in pristine ... see more
Christophe Rulhes
This article describes Sylvana Opoya's contribution to the writing and staging of Selve, a play performed and designed in France by Christophe Rulhes and the GdRA. In the text of the play, Sylvana, a 22-year-old Wayana woman in the French Guiana Amazon, t... see more
Octaviana Sylvia Caroline Rombe
This paper discusses how the Dayak Iban community of Sui Utik, Kalimantan, with the help of Sekar Kawung, a social enterprise foundation, uses the indigenous system of Tembawang to challenge deforestation and concomitant problems of air pollution through ... see more
Hannah Regis
This paper argues that a selection of Caribbean writers has engaged an aesthetic that spotlights the idea of a living or divine landscape through a deployment of folkloric, mythological, magical or spiritual epistemological frames. This aesthetic foregrou... see more
Jacob Wood,Swathi Paturi,Prerna Puri,Emil Senf Jakobsen,Sumanth Shankar,Pawel Zejden,Simona Azzali
The management of marine waste is an increasingly complex issue facing the world today. Our study provides an interesting take on the issue of marine waste by examining how Indonesian indigenous communities can deal with plastic marine pollution. While th... see more
Jean Anderson
Taking a broad approach to the concept of recycling, I refer to a range of works, from sculpture to film, street art and poetry, which depict issues of importance to Indigenous peoples faced with the (after) effects of colonisation. Does the use of repurp... see more
Kavitha Ganesan,Anantha Raman Govindasamy,Jane Kon Ling Wong,Shaffarullah Abdul Rahman,Kennedy Aaron Aguol,Jamsari Hashim,Bilcher Bala
In this paper we focus on the Lundayeh indigenous minority in Long Pasia, Sabah by examining how their traditional food practices help them navigate environmental challenges. Deforestation and logging threaten the very core of the Lundayeh identity becaus... see more