TopEndSTS is a collective of practitioners working in northern Australia. Our research is carried out under the authority of Indigenous elders and struggles towards research that works ‘in-place’.
We invite participants to journey through instances of our collective work, and participate in the Making and Doing of an inquiry into ‘working conceptual multiplicity’.
This inquiry has arisen as we find ourselves needing to find ways to work which make sense amidst the groups we work with and for, and which allows this collaborative work to travel, to make a difference, to intervene…
Join us in these explorations as you thread through the displays below.
RE-PRESENTATION
Under weight of a colonial past steeped in derogatory, patronising, negative and often inaccurate representations of Aboriginal people, is it possible to represent Indigenous Australians without epistemic violence?
EVALUATION
Evaluating ongoing learning and improvement in multiple worlds
IDENTITY
Learning an Indigenous language involves doing identity work
LANGUAGENESS
The mobility of language invested in particular space-and-time of Indigenous northern Australia
CREDENTIALS
Credentialing Yolngu researchers in the modern academy and in Djalkiri (Yolngu foundations)
EVIDENCE
Generating legible evidence, by conceptualising evidence as multiple, in Ngukurr
ANALYSIS
Working cosmologies together and separately
“More than one, less than many”: Making and doing conceptual multiplicity as STS work.
Analysis