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An Applied Peoples’ Geography as the Basis of the Framework for Cultural Hybridity

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The aim of this chapter is to introduce the four themes that are central to the applied peoples’ geography advocated in this book. This applied peoples’ geography, coupled with an edge politics (see Chaps. 4 and 5), is the basis of the new conceptual framework for cultural hybridity. This geography enables an investigation into the role of local, Indigenous and scientific knowledge in environmental governance and management. Definitions of the themes of power, knowledge, governance scale and nature are presented in this chapter as the basis for the research epistemology. This epistemology forms the conceptual toolkit for the applied peoples’ geography (after Harvey, Prof Geogr 36(1):161, 1984) practised by this research. This applied peoples’ geography provides tools to describe, analyse and understand the social world that are empowering and create the basis for social action (Harvey, Prof Geogr 36(1):1–11, 1984). This applied peoples’ geography works to open up the local spaces of environmental governance and management and provides the tools necessary for the new conceptual framework for cultural hybridity.

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  1. 1.

    Seddon (1997) points out that the hierarchical character of the Linnaean classification system is a reflection of assumptions of the natural and social order at the time. Schiebinger (1996) holds that the basis for the scientific study of nature were sexualised and gendered. At the same time, nature was used as a social reference point dictating the way in which women and men should behave.

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    Grove (1995) refutes the work of many historians who write about the colonial experience as environmentally destructive and having its roots in ideologically imperialistic attitudes towards the environment. He suggests that much of the ideological and scientific content of the early French and British colonial conservationism was based on a heterogeneous mix of Indigenous, romantic, oriental and other knowledge.

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    Reynolds (1982, 1992, 1999a, b) speaks of Indigenous resistance to the European invasion of Australia. Indeed the Mabo Decision resulted from the ongoing struggle of Indigenous Australians against colonial laws. Challenges to colonial rule are evidenced by, for example, the historic walk-off staged by Gurindji people working as stockmen at Wattie Creek station (locally called Darguargu) in 1966. This act of protest represented their attempt to reclaim their country from the white pastoralists.

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Maclean, K. (2015). An Applied Peoples’ Geography as the Basis of the Framework for Cultural Hybridity. In: Cultural Hybridity and the Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-323-1_3

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