Emily O'Gorman Emily O'Gorman i(19141037 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Wayilwan Women Caring for Country : Dynamic Knowledges, Decolonising Historical Methodologies, and Colonial Explorer Journals Danielle Carney Flakelar , Emily O'Gorman , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 47 no. 1 2023; (p. 160-180)

'This article presents research from an ongoing collaborative project between two women—an Aboriginal woman and senior Wayilwan cultural knowledge holder, and an academic of European descent—that aims to closely and critically re-read Australian colonial and later historical sources for Wayilwan women’s knowledge of Country and community. In this article, we specifically focus on the journals of colonial explorers John Oxley, Charles Sturt and Thomas Mitchell, who travelled through Wayilwan Country in the early to mid-19th century. We begin by outlining our collaborative methodology, contextualising Wayilwan Country and introducing these journals. We then examine the journals in terms of four interlinked Wayilwan women’s knowledges: river knowledge, fire knowledge, grain and yam knowledge, and care of children and the elderly. In undertaking this research, we aim to contribute to decolonising methods and methodologies, address harmful disengagements with Aboriginal women’s practices, and respectfully carry forward Wayilwan women’s knowledge.' (Publication abstract)

1 An Encounter with Brine Shrimp and Deep Time Emily O'Gorman , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Living with the Anthropocene 2020;
1 Reflections on Environmental History and the Work of Deborah Bird Rose Emily O'Gorman , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Swamphen : A Journal of Cultural Ecology , no. 7 2020;
'I have been engaging with Deborah Bird Rose’s work in a project that aims to bring together environmental history and the broader environmental humanities to examine the past and possible futures of wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. I have particularly been engaging with two concepts she developed in conversation with others: ‘will-to-destruction’ and ‘deep colonising’ (‘Angel’ 67-78; ‘Land’ 6-13). These concepts are connected through histories of British colonisation and are relevant to environmental historians more widely, in Australia and other places.'

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