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Country, Ecology & Environmental Relations
EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS AMONG COUNTRY, PEOPLE, WATER, LAND, ECOSYSTEMS, AND THE LIVING WORLD THROUGH CARE, KINSHIP, RESPONSIBILITY, AND PARTICIPATION.
How do we live well within the relationships that sustain the Earth?
Research Questions
- What does it mean to belong to Country and the living world?
- How do humans participate within living ecosystems?
- How do Indigenous understandings of Country reshape environmental thought and responsibility?
- How can land, water, plants, animals, and other beings be understood through relationship and kinship?
- What happens when ecological relationships are disrupted?What conditions support regeneration and ecological flourishing?
- How do memory, culture, and Country remain connected through time?
- How can environmental action strengthen relationships between people and the Earth?
Current Research
Country and relationship
Ecology as belonging
Water
Pollution and relational breakdown
Indigenous environmental ethics
Ecological regeneration
Country and memory
Environmental responsibility
project 1
Ecology as Belonging
Reframes ecology as the study of relationships that sustain belonging within the living world
project 2
Deep Belonging: A Relational Framework for Sustainability Science
Develops a relational approach to sustainability grounded in belonging, reciprocity, participation, and living systems.
project 3
Country Remembers
Investigates how landscapes participate in memory through enduring ecological, cultural, and relational continuity.
project 4
Epigenetics, Environment and Belonging
Explores how relationships with environments may shape development and wellbeing across generations.
project 5
Pollution as Relational Breakdown
Examines pollution through damaged relationships among people, matter, environments, and future generations.
project 6
Water Is Family
Explores water as a living relative within Indigenous relational worldviews and structures of responsibility.
project 7
Engineering the Sky
Investigates the ethical and ecological implications of large-scale technological interventions in Earth’s atmosphere.
project 8
Kanyini and the Survival of Meaning in the Anthropocene
Explores how Indigenous principles of care and responsibility offer pathways through ecological crisis
project 9
Community Wellbeing Through Kanyini
Explores how Indigenous relational principles strengthen resilient communities and healthy ecosystems
project 10
Language as the Ecology of Belonging
Investigates language as part of the living relationships connecting people, culture, Country, and place.
project 11
Language Futures
Explores the future of linguistic diversity as a foundation for cultural resilience and human flourishing