Weaving the pluriverse: childhood encounters with the underground worlds of Birrarung Marr

References

• Arnold, C., J. Atchison, and A. McKnight. 2021. “Reciprocal Relationships with Trees: Rekindling Indigenous Wellbeing and Identity Through the Yuin Ontology of Oneness.” Australian Geographer 52 (2): 131–147. doi:10.1080/00049182.2021.1910111.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barad, K. 2011. “Nature’s Queer Performativity.” Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences 19 (2): 121–158. doi:10.5250/quiparle.19.2.0121.
   Google Scholar
• Bawaka Country, including Wright, S., S. Suchet-Pearson, K. Lloyd, L. Burarrwanga, R. Ganambarr, M. Ganambarr-Stubbs, B. Ganambarr, and D. Maymuru. 2015. “Working with and Learning from Country: Decentring Human Authority.” Cultural Geographies 22 (2): 269–283. doi:10.1177/1474474014539248.
   Google Scholar
• Bawaka Country, including S. Wright, S. Suchet-Pearson, K. Lloyd, L. Burarrwanga, R. Ganambarr, and J. Sweeney. 2016. Co-Becoming Bawaka: Towards a Relational Understanding of Place/Space. Progress in Human Geography, 40 (4): 455–475.
   Google Scholar
• Bawaka Country, including Wright, S., S. Suchet-Pearson, K. Lloyd, L. Burarrwanga, R. Ganambarr, M. Ganambarr-Stubbs, B. Ganambarr, and D. Maymuru. 2020. “Gathering of the Clouds: Attending to Indigenous Understandings of Time and Climate Through Songspirals.” Geoforum; Journal of Physical, Human, and Regional Geosciences 108: 295–304. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.05.017.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Beiler, K. J., D. M. Durall, S. W. Simard, S. A. Maxwell, and A. M. Kretzer. 2010. “Architecture of the Wood-Wide Web: Rhizopogon spp. Genets Link Multiple Douglas-Fir Cohorts.” New Phytologist 185 (2): 543–553. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03069.x.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Bennett, J. 2010. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bird-David, N. 1999. “‘Animism’ Revisited: Personhood, Environment, and Relational Epistemology.” Current Anthropology 40: S67–S91. doi:10.1086/200061.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blaser, M., and M. de la Cadena. 2018. “Pluriverse: Proposals for a World of Many Worlds.” In A World of Many Worlds, edited by M. de la Cadena and M. Blaser, 1–22. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
   Google Scholar
• Braidotti, R. 2019. Posthuman Knowledges. Cambridge: Polity Press.
   Google Scholar
• Briggs, C. 2008. The Journey Cycles of the Boonwurrung: Stories with Boonwurrung Language. Melbourne: Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.
   Google Scholar
• Bawaka Country, including Burarrwanga, L., R. Ganambarr, M. Ganambarr-Stubbs, B. Ganambarr, D. Maymuru, K. Lloyd, S. Wright, S. Suchet-Pearson, and L. Daley. 2022. “Songspirals Bring Country into Existence: Singing More-Than-Human and Relational Creativity.” Qualitative Inquiry 28 (5): 435–447.
   Google Scholar
• Cajete, G. 2006. “It is Time for Indian People to Define Indigenous Education on Our Own Terms.” Tribal College 18 (2): 56.
   Google Scholar
• Cajete, G. A., and D. R. Williams. 2020. “Eco-aesthetics, Metaphor, Story, and Symbolism: An Indigenous Perspective: A Conversation.” Research Handbook on Childhoodnature: Assemblages of Childhood and Nature Research, 2: 1707–1733. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67286-1_96.
   Google Scholar
• Castillo, M. R. F. 2016. “Dancing the Pluriverse: Indigenous Performance as Ontological Praxis.” Dance Research Journal 48 (1): 55–73. doi:10.1017/S0149767715000480.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Celermajer, D., D. Schlosberg, L. Rickards, M. Stewart-Harawira, M. Thaler, P. Tschakert, B. Verlie, and C. Winter. 2021. “Multispecies Justice: Theories, Challenges, and a Research Agenda for Environmental Politics.” Environmental Politics 30 (1–2): 119–140. doi:10.1080/09644016.2020.1827608.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cole, D. R., and M. Somerville. 2017. “Thinking School Curriculum Through Country with Deleuze and Whitehead: A Process-Based Synthesis.” In Art, Artists and Pedagogy, edited by C. Naughton, G. Biesta, and D. Cole, 71–82. NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• De Castro, E. V. 2005. “Perspectivism and Multinaturalism in Indigenous America.” In The Land Within: Indigenous Territory and Perception of the Environment, edited by A. Surralles and P. G. Hierro, 36–75. Copenhagen: IWGIA.
   Google Scholar
• Deleuze, G., and F. Guattari. 1987. A Thousand Plateaus (B. Massumi, Trans.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
   Google Scholar
• Demos, T. J. 2020. Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the Crossing. Durham: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Descola, P. 1996. In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology of Amazonia. Translated by Nora Scott. New York: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Ellsworth, E. 2005. Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy. NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Escobar, A. 2018. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gay-Wu Group of Women, including Burarrwanga, L., Ganambarr, R., Ganambarr-Stubbs, M., Ganambarr, B., Maymuru, D., Wright, S., … & Lloyd, K. 2019. Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country Through Songlines. Allen & Unwin.
   Google Scholar
• Giorza, T. M. 2021. Learning with Damaged Colonial Places: Posthumanist Pedagogies from a Joburg Preschool. Singapore: Springer Nature.
   Google Scholar
• Haraway, D. 2016. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Harris, A. M., and S. H. Jones. 2019. The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than- Human. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
   Google Scholar
• Harvey, G. 2006. Animism: Respecting the Living World. Columbia University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hernández, K., J. M. Rubis, N. Theriault, Z. Todd, A. Mitchell, B. Country, L. Burarrwanga, et al. 2021. “The Creatures Collective: Manifestings.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 4 (3): 838–863.
   Google Scholar
• Hooper, R. 2021. “The Wisdom of the Woods.” New Scientist 250 (3332): 39–43. doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(21)00747-8.
   Google Scholar
• Kirksey, E. 2015. Emergent Ecologies. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Kohn, E. 2013. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
   Google Scholar
• Kolasa, A. 2017. “Yiookgen Dhan Liwik-al Intak-kongi Nganyinu Ngargunin Twarn / Dreams of our Ancestors Hopes for our Future.” (Parliamentary Speech), 22 June 2017, Wurundjeri. Accessed January 18, 2022. wurundjeri.com.au/wpcontent/uploads/pdf/Wurundjeri_parliamentary_speech_download_a.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Kopenawa, D., and B. Albert. 2013. The Falling Sky. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Laird, T. 2021. Wrapped in Flowers, Listening to Frogs. Art + Australia [Special Issue: Multinaturalism] 57 (18): 10–19.
   Google Scholar
• Law, J. 2015. “What’s Wrong with a One-World World?” Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory 16 (1): 126–139. doi:10.1080/1600910X.2015.1020066.
   Google Scholar
• Lewis, J. E., N. Arista, A. Pechawis, and S. Kite. 2018. “Making Kin with the Machines.” Journal of Design and Science.
   Google Scholar
• Macfarlane, R. 2016. “The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web.” The New Yorker 7.
   Google Scholar
• Malone, K., and S. J. Moore. 2019. “Sensing Ecologically through Kin and Stones.” International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education 7 (1): 8–25.
   Google Scholar
• Marder, Michael. 2013. Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. New York: Colombia University.
   Google Scholar
• Merewether, J. 2019a. “Listening with Young Children: Enchanted Animism of Trees, Rocks, Clouds (and Other Things).” Pedagogy, Culture & Society 27 (2): 233–250. doi:10.1080/14681366.2018.1460617.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Merewether, J. 2019b. “New Materialisms and Children’s Outdoor Environments: Murmurative Diffractions.” Children’s Geographies 17 (1): 105–117. doi:10.1080/14733285.2018.1471449.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Merewether, J. 2020. “Enchanted Animism: A Matter of Care.” Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 1463949120971380. doi:10.1177/1463949120971380.
   Google Scholar
• Murris, K. 2016. The Posthuman Child: Educational Transformation Through Philosophy with Picturebooks. Oxon: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Murris, K. 2019. “Posthuman De/Colonising Teacher Education in South Africa: Animals, Anthropomorphism and Picture-Book Art.” In Why Science and Art Creativities Matter, edited by P. Burnard and L. Colucci-Grey, 52–78. Leiden, NL: Brill.
   Google Scholar
• Nxumalo, F., and V. Pacini-Ketchabaw. 2017. “Staying with the Trouble’ in Child-Insect-Educator Common Worlds.” Environmental Education Research 23 (10): 1414–1426. doi:10.1080/13504622.2017.1325447.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Olsson, L. M. 2009. Movement and Experimentation in Young Children’s Learning: Deleuze and Guattari in Early Childhood Education. Oxon: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Povinelli, E. A. 2016. Geontologies: A Requiem for Late Liberalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Powers, R. 2018. The Overstory: A Novel. NY: WW Norton & Company.
   Google Scholar
• Ritchie, J., and L. G. Phillips. 2021. “Learning with Indigenous Wisdom in a Time of Multiple Crises: Embodied and Emplaced Early Childhood Pedagogies.” Educational Review 75 (1): 54–73. doi:10.1080/00131911.2021.1978396.
   Google Scholar
• Rose, D. B. 2011. Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
   Google Scholar
• Rosiek, J. L., J. Snyder, and S. L. Pratt. 2020. “The New Materialisms and Indigenous Theories of non-Human Agency: Making the Case for Respectful Anti-Colonial Engagement.” Qualitative Inquiry 26 (3–4): 331–346. doi:10.1177/1077800419830135.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rousell, D. 2022. “Accidental Creatures: Whitehead’s Creativity and the Clashing Intensities of More-Than-Human Life.” Qualitative Inquiry 28 (5): 566–577. doi:10.1177/10778004211065811.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rousell, D., and A. Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles. 2022. Posthuman Research Playspaces: Climate Child Imaginaries. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Rousell, D., E. Ryan, B. Bauer-Nilsen, and R. Lai. 2022. “Animist Pedagogies and the Endings of Worlds: Rituals for the Pluriverse.” In Doing Rebellious Research in and Beyond the Academy, edited by P. Burnard, L. MacKinlay, D. Rousell, and T. Dragovic, 263–272. Leiden, NL: Brill.
   Google Scholar
• Saunders, M. 2021. “The Land is the Law: On Climate Fictions and Relational Thinking.” Art + Australia: Multi-Naturalism 8: 21–31.
   Google Scholar
• Stengers, I. 2018. “The Challenge of Ontological Politics.” In A World of Many Worlds, edited by M. de la Cadena and M. Blaser, 83–111. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
   Google Scholar
• TallBear, K. 2017. “Beyond the Life/Not Life Binary: A Feminist-Indigenous Reading of Cryopreservation, Interspecies Thinking and the New Materialisms.” In Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World, edited by J. Radin and E. Kowal, 179–202. Cambridge: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Taylor, A., V. Pacinini-Ketchabaw, and M. Blaise. 2012. “Children’s Relations to the More-Than-Human World.” Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 13 (2): 81–85. doi:10.2304/ciec.2012.13.2.81.
   Google Scholar
• Tsing, A. 2015. The Mushroom at the End of the World on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council. 2020. “‘Taking Care of Culture’ Discussion Paper. State of Victoria’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Report, November 2020. https://www.aboriginalheritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/taking-care-culture-discussion-paper.
   Google Scholar
• Viveiros de Castro, E. 2005. “Perspectivism and Multinaturalism in Indigenous America.” In The Land Within: Indigenous Territory and Perception of the Environment, edited by A. Surralles and P. G. Hierro, 36–75. Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.
   Google Scholar
• West-Eberhard, M. J. 2003. Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Whitehead, A. N. 1978. Process and Reality. New York: Free Press.
   Google Scholar
• Whyte, K. P. 2013. “On the Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as a Collaborative Concept: A Philosophical Study.” Ecological Processes 2 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1186/2192-1709-2-7.
   Google Scholar
• Wild, A., A. Reed, B. Barr, and G. Crocetti. 2020. The Forest in the Tree: How Fungi Shape the Earth. Melbourne: CSIRO.
   Google Scholar
• Winnicott, D. W. (1989). Playing and Reality. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Wohlleben, P. 2016. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World. Greystone Books.
   Google Scholar