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Continuity and Transmission
Investigating how knowledge, identity, memory, and responsibility continue across generations.
What continues across time?
Research Questions
- What continues across time?
- How is knowledge transmitted between generations?
- How do stories preserve identity and culture?
- How do language, memory, and place sustain continuity?
- What responsibilities do we carry toward future generations?
- How do communities maintain continuity while embracing change?
- How can continuity strengthen resilience in times of disruption?
Current Research
Migration and continuity
Language as homeland
Meaning as transmission
Story fields
Ancestral futures
Death and continuity
project 1
The Country in the Voice
Investigates vocal expression as an embodied marker of belonging, memory, and displacement
project 2
The Third Story
Introduces the concept of the Third Story, exploring how migration creates new fields of belonging, identity, and shared meaning.
project 3
Migration in Time
Explores migration through continuity, showing how identity unfolds across generations rather than only across places
project 4
What Continues? Death, Destiny, and the Persistence of Participation
Explores death through the lens of continuity, participation, and relational persistence
project 5
Migration and the Loss of Continuity
Examines migration as a disruption of relational continuity affecting identity and wellbeing
project 6
Language Futures
Examines the future of languages as living carriers of culture and identity
project 7
What Persists Across Generations?
Investigates the enduring structures that sustain identity and belonging over time
project 8
Story Fields
Explores stories as relational fields that shape identity, continuity, and collective meaning
project 9
When Knowledge Breaks
Investigates the consequences of disrupting intergenerational knowledge transmission
project 10
Language as a Continuity Structure
We explores a fundamental shift in ethical understanding by comparing Western individualism with the Anangu concept of Kanyini
project 11
Diaspora as Living Continuity
Investigates how belonging, memory, and homeland remain alive through relationships that continue across generations despite displacement.
project 12
Belonging Beyond Distance
Explores how belonging to homeland, culture, and ancestry is sustained through enduring relationships that transcend geographical separation.
project 13
Homesickness as Disrupted Belonging
Reframes homesickness as a disruption of belonging, exploring how relationships, memory, and place sustain the experience of home.
project 14
Holding Without Holding
Explores knowledge as a living responsibility, showing how wisdom is sustained through care, custodianship, and relationships across generations.
project 15
Death as Return to Field
Reframes death as a return to relational continuity rather than an absolute ending
project 16
Knowledge That Walks
Explores knowledge as a living relationship sustained through custodianship, responsibility, and intergenerational transmission.
project 17
Meaning as Transmission
Explores how meaning endures through relationships, responsibility, and intergenerational continuity beyond the individual self.
project 18
Ancestral Futures
Introduces the concept of ancestral futures, arguing that enduring societies are built through continuity, care, and intergenerational responsibility.