EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
5/25/2021 | 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM | Voice of the River – decolonising and indigenising our relationships with rivers. | Virtual Platform
Voice of the River – decolonising and indigenising our relationships with rivers.
In the 2017 Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River) Act, Aotearoa New Zealand became the first nation-state to recognise a river as a legal person.
This inspired and catalysed many in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond into community action and research projects including two in which the author was involved – Te Awaroa Voice of the River and Let the River Speak, the latter growing from the former. Both projects explored how best to engage across different knowledge traditions; to transcend modernist divisions between theory and practice, people and the environment, nature and culture: and to revitalise overlooked genealogies that link the arts, humanities, technology, and the natural and social sciences. Both projects were designed to foster globally innovative exchanges across different disciplines and ways of thinking, local communities (including iwi, local and central government agencies, farmers, foresters, riverside residents, businesses and those who paddle, row, fish and swim in the river), and a range of practical interventions aimed at restoring river communities to a state of ora – prosperity, health and wellbeing.
Fundamentally the approach we took involved decolonising and indigenising our relationships with rivers.
- Geomorphology
- Adaptive management
- Land use
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Presenters/Authors
Dan C Hikuroa
(), University of Auckland, d.hikuroa@auckland.ac.nz;
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