Adam Gowen

screenshot of first page, abstract reads: Despite an ever-growing critical literature, vulnerability retains its place as a dominant concept in climate politics. What is less heavily researched is the concept of “invulnerability,” an idea that feminist and decolonial theory has many tools to critique. After unpacking the material and discursive elements of vulnerability politics, this article focuses on invulnerability as a concept that is an influential yet unexplored set of masculine and colonial fantasies. These fantasies – of modernity, mastery, and continentalism – are critiqued through different critical traditions, which are brought into conversation with climate politics literature. I then discuss the counternarratives of Oceanic thought, following Teresia Teaiwa’s prompt to “island the world.” I argue that this can be done through a focus on care, relationality, and a decolonial politics of resistance. I conclude that resisting the politics of vulnerability requires an engagement with critical feminist and decolonial thought to enable an imaginative piercing of the fantasies of invulnerability.

New article! I'll do a thread / blog soon, but it's out, and it's Open Access!

'Colonial fantasies of invulnerability to climate change'

doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Yes! And in his submission to the cross he reveals his presence with us as God who is co-sufferer and not unaware of our pain and anguish.

It’s a full circle day today as I’m attending a couple of events at University of Canberra right next to the daycare I used to attend as a very small child while my mum was studying here. #Nostalgia #IHECC #WorldAccessToHigherEducationCelebration

Don’t mind a dillydally myself

Tim Winton delivers CPX's 2024 Richard Johnson Lecture (with Q&A) Exiles at Home: what our contempt for nature is costing us. Writer and activist Tim Winton reminds us that life on earth is a gift, a miracle we often fail to honour…

‘Exiles at home: What is our contempt for nature costing us’ Tim Winton delivers the 2024 Richard Johnson lecture vimeo.com/1025332502

North East NSW Forestry Hub | Report » Identifying and overcoming legal barriers to cultural burning literature and legal review of cultural burning included on ground workshop with Indigenous fire practitioners

This week, I was in Sydney to launch a new report about the legal barriers to cultural burning in New South Wales (by a cracking team: Oli Costello, Michelle Mckemey and me!). It's a really important resource and, I hope, will underpin long-overdue reforms to empower First Nations-led burning 🔥

This is one of the reasons I see Waagan/Waaga (crow in Wiradjuri/Dhurga) as mudjingaal (special friend animal) I was just yarning today with someone who was saying in their cultural ways they represent the old people in the dreaming.

Good morning.

On the balcony this morning a gift from Waardong (english: Raven).

Uncle [Rev] Sealin Garlett who taught me the Noongar names of birds as a spiritual practice to receive their ministry use to talk about how for his People, Elijah was ministered to by angels *through* Waardong. 🐦‍⬛

Can confirm the quenda’s angelic/messenger status.

At ANU Kioloa today with great people exploring values with year 8 kids.

Wicked tonight- loved it. Great storyline, poignant and nostalgic. A distinct lack of colour-changing horses however.

Day for it!

I figured this image I recently collected on Ngunnawal Country was a good first post on this particular platform. 🌌