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'It can take an enormous intellectual effort for non-Indigenous people (such as this reviewer) to grasp Indigenous concepts of time. This is partially due to what Aileen Moreton-Robinson has described as the incommensurability of Indigenous and Western epistemological approaches. In settler-colonial terms, land is a resource to be appropriated, surveyed, and exploited. Temporality is generally used to situate the colonisation event, the before and after, from a perspective where time is linear and forward-looking. By contrast, in Indigenous cosmological approaches, land, culture, and time are co-dependent and in perpetual conversation. Country and time are indivisible.' (Introduction)
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https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2023/october-2023-no-458/994-october-2023-no-458/11083-leonie-stevens-reviews-everywhen-australia-and-the-language-of-deep-history-edited-by-ann-mcgrath-laura-rademaker-and-jakelin-troy
The Dreaming : A Vessel to Hold Past, Present, Future
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- Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism
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