Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Environmental Crises in Kerala, Adelaide, and beyond: a Collaborative Poetic Inquiry
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'The earth presently suffers multiple anthropogenic (human-affected) environmental crises. Broad scale global issues like climate change now receive relatively high public attention, but need remains to look closely at localised problems and to enact dialogues about how environmental crisis manifests across differing geographical sites. Fusing the creative and collaborative techniques of research methodologies including duoethnography, poetic inquiry, and writing-as-research, this article stages an exchange through which two poets, one based in Kerala, India, the other in Adelaide, Australia, respond to one another’s writings about local environmental issues. In drawing on feminist and ecofeminist theories in connection with Félix Guatari’s work on the ‘three ecologies’, the article probes interconnections between environmental and social issues including but exceeding the ongoing effects of invasion or colonisation in both our countries; the insufficiencies of official responses to catastrophes; oppression and privilege based on gender and intersecting factors; the globalised capitalist economy; and more.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon TEXT Special Issue Website Series Indian-Australian Exchanges through Collaborative Poetic Inquiry no. 60 October 2020 20757143 2020 periodical issue

    'Poetry, it seems to me, raises the questions of margins and marginality in obvious ways … and yet poetry is central in terms of its contribution to language and thought. (Hecq 2005)

    'Liminality indicates a border, a line, and thus some style of crisis – some turn, or act of turning, of crossing from one place or state to another (Meads 2019: 5). It is the discovery of a limit, and simultaneously, realisation that the limit is not the end. There is always some further into and through which to step. What seems a wall is a skin is an interstice is warping, stretching, porous. Like the ‘/’ in the ‘im/possible’ and ‘both/and’, such lines are zones, spaces, gaps for opening and unfolding, sites for play and experimentation, for testing, dreaming, discovering. The liminal is thus imbued with potential: hitherto-unthought thoughts become articulable, letting new knowledges and ways of knowing come to be (Meads 2019: 5-6).' (Jaydeep Sarangi and Amelia Walker, (Introduction)

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