Articulating and Enacting Hope on Climate

Leader: Louisa Stredwick, Candidate, Doctor of Philosophy (Arts and Sciences)
Dates: 2019 – 2021
Team members: Professor Stephen Muecke, Associate Professor Sandra Wooltorton and Dr Anne Poelina

Louisa’s research seeks to identify performative discourse and socio-cultural characteristics critical to articulating/enacting hope at this pivotal global moment. Specifically, the research will interrogate vocabularies of 'otherness' in our more-than-human world and explore how discursive processes of belonging shape our capacity for collective decision-making. In the Kimberley and at a global scale this is central to resolving critical issues around identity, community and effective action on climate. The research will contribute to transitions literature and propose core conceptual frameworks for transformative discourses.

  • Publications

    Wooltorton, S., Toussaint, S., Poelina, A., Jennings, A., Muecke, S., Kenneally, K., Remond, J., Schripf, A., & Stredwick, L. (2019). Kimberley Transitions, Collaborating to Care for Our Common Home: Beginnings … Nulungu Research Paper No. 2. Broome: Nulungu Research Institute. Available online

Real-life research projects

Acknowledgement of Country

The Nulungu Research Institute is located on Yawuru land, encompassing the coastal town of Broome. Aboriginal saltwater, river and desert language groups across the Kimberley sustain intergenerational cultural, intellectual and social affiliations over time. Kimberley Transitions researchers and associates pay respect to the Yawuru and other Kimberley cultural custodians - to past, present and future generations. Knowledge and expertise, evident throughout the Kimberley – the place Aboriginal women, men, children and others call home – is vital to the sustainability of all people and places. That Kimberley Transitions can be part of this ongoing process underpins the Project's aims and ethos.