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Public seminar
Transcultural ‘home’ -
‘Timeless’ Ecologies and Philosophies
Public seminar
Hosted by:
The Centre for Research on Social Inclusion,
with support from
The Department of Human Geography and
The Division of Environmental Life Sciences, Macquarie University
Presented by:
Dr. Divya P.Tolia-Kelly
Department of Geography
Durham University, UK
Date & time: Thursday October 25th @ 3pm - 5pm
Venue: C5C 498
This seminar is free but bookings are recommended.
To reserve your place, please contact:
Dr Armen Gakavian - crsi@scmp.mq.edu.au, tel: 9850 9171
or Dr Nicole Cook - ncook@els.mq.edu.au or tel: 9850 8385
Abstract: ‘Home’ has been theorised within the social sciences through the lens of feminist accounts of the value of the domestic scene politically, socially, culturally and economically. These accounts have proliferated in the disciplines of geography, anthropology, cultural studies, law and sociology. Contemporary research on the cultural values of home has rested on notions of ‘being’ and ‘feeling’ human and at home in the space of ‘dwelling’ (Heidegger) or ‘habitus’ (Bordieu). These are critical philosophical starting points into thinking about the role of ‘home’ in human consciousness, identity practices and in socio-political economies and networks. However, these are squarely based in a western canon. This seminar on transcultural values of ‘home’ attends to the need within international quality research to think ‘home’ transculturally and internationally beyond this framework of thinking. This is not to dismiss the cultural and philosophical values of ‘home’ based on notions of ‘dwelling’ and ‘habitus’ but to build and extend dialogues across to the Antipodes where Maori and Aboriginal cultural values offer different starting points, timescales and relationships between individuals and society. The starting point for this symposium will be the figuring of ‘home’ in non-Western cultures (such as Aboriginal, Maori and Inuit). ‘Home’ in these social groups and contexts is philosophically embedded in different frameworks of time, heritage, territory and ‘dwelling’. Most importantly ‘social’ and ‘posthuman’ accounts of human-land relations are critical to rites, rituals and notions of social laws of land rights, human rights, appropriation and governance. The seminar will engage with the temporal and spatial evolution of 'home' through a truly interdisciplinary approach.