Decoloyarns

Decoloyarning at Fenner is a series of articles about understanding how the disciplines we love thrive in a forum where respecting Indigenous knowledges and thinking sits at the core of what we do. What does it look like, feel like, and mean to embrace this approach to learning and research? What are our responsibilities and what can we learn from each other?

We would like to thank The Decolonial Research and Teaching Circle (Fenner Circle) for helping create a space where the Fenner community can enrich our passion for the environment and society by learning with societies built through the environment’s principles and lore.

This is a series for everyone, and that anyone can contribute to, whether you’re Indigenous or non-Indigenous, just started your degree or are a seasoned academic. If you’ve got an idea for a topic for a yarn, would like to be part of a yarn, or share something you’ve learnt from a yarn, contact The Fenner School Communications Team.

A surfboard covered in an ocean-scape and filled with Pasifika flowers stands up, pointing to a blue sky.
Tuesday, 28 Mar 2023
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The majority of the media coverage of the 2023 AUKUS submarine deal has focused on the interests of settler-colonists. So whose perspectives and interests might flesh out a bigger nuclear picture that keeps the environment in mind?

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A cartoon illustration of five people who are culturally and ethnically different, holding each other in warm shoulder touches in a family-style portrait.
Monday, 20 Feb 2023
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The decoloyarns editorial team was thrilled when Caroline Hendy, an incoming PhD student in linguistics at the College of Asia and the Pacific, pitched this reflection on a decolonised unit that was part her post-graduate studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

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Friday, 02 Dec 2022
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What is it about Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu that is so polarising? As PhD scholars and early career researchers we feel compelled to ask this question of our fellow academics.

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A close-up of actor John Cleese dressed in Roman papal attire, and pointing at the camera while mid-speech.
Wednesday, 02 Nov 2022
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Everything settler-colonists write, everything settler-colonists research, has an opportunity to be decolonised. That's right: there are no loopholes, no exceptions.

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A comical and simple cartoon describes the process of realising that research is a bit more complicated than just getting out there and looking at the world.
Monday, 26 Sep 2022
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This article is a response to a piece of feedback the Decoloyarns editorial team received from a reader. They told us “you talk about decolonisation in your articles without saying what you think it means”.

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The image is of yellow soil. Out of the soil has grown a patch of green grasses in the outline of a loveheart.
Friday, 12 Aug 2022
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The Circle is an Indigenous- and student -led collective with a long-term goal to decolonise research and teaching at the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society. In this article, Circle Founders kate harriden, Sam Provost and Rachel England reflect on its establishment in early 2019, and its activities since.

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The image is a blue kingfisher, standing on the end of a thick, broken branch. The background is blurred, but it's speckled with leafylike green.
Friday, 12 Aug 2022
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Decoloyarning at Fenner is currently open for submissions. This call provides some practical support to help you best prepare a pitch.

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A group of Wiradjuri cultural authorities sit and stand together outside on their lands.
Sunday, 29 May 2022
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This article by Tracey Potts provides an example of genuine effective partnership involving Local Land Services that supported Wiradjuri priorities and embraced Wiradjuri protocols.

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Director of The Fenner School, Saul Cunningham stands outdoors in a suit with a short cut grey beard. The grass is green, he is holding a folder and speaking from it. Younger people are sitting in chairs - you can see the backs of their heads.
Monday, 02 May 2022
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Fenner School PhD Scholars Jenna Ridley and Rachael Gross sat down on Ngunnawal/Ngunawal and Ngambri country with the key leader here at The Fenner School: Director Saul Cunningham, and talked about leading into decolonisation, in a colonial institution, when you’re not Indigenous.

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