Bruce Pascoe: Respecting and falling in love with the land
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
How is the common portrayal of Australia’s first peoples as hunter-gatherers who lived on empty, uncultivated land misguided, and wrong? What does the word “Country” mean in Aboriginal Australian thought? And what do we need to interrogate in terms of the subjectivity of how knowledge is produced or how stories are substantiated?
In this episode, we are honored to speak with Bruce Pascoe, a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man best known for his book Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture.
Join us in this warm, grounding conversation as we explore Aboriginal Australian agriculture, land practices of working with fire, maintaining respect for and falling in love with Mother Earth, and more.
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| 0:54.1 | White explorers were saying that. |
| 0:57.8 | They couldn't believe the plane was so open |
| 1:01.0 | when everywhere else there were trees. |
| 1:05.2 | And the reason, as some people understood, |
| 1:08.8 | was that Aboriginal people were keeping the forest off the plain |
| 1:12.9 | so that they could grow crops. |
| 1:15.6 | This is a very profound moment in not just Australian Aboriginal development, but human development, |
| 1:23.3 | because it was a long, long time ago, maybe 100,000 years ago, maybe 120,000 years ago. |
| 1:31.1 | So it's very important for humans, not just Australian Aboriginal people. |
| 1:42.6 | You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamea Shane. Today, we're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamehashane. |
| 1:47.8 | Today we are speaking with Bruce Pasco, a Uin, Bunurong, and Tasmanian man, and a writer of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, and children's literature. |
| 2:01.5 | He is the enterprise professor in indigenous agriculture at the University of Melbourne. |
| 2:07.9 | And he's also best known for his work, Dark Emu, Aboriginal Australia, and the Birth of Agriculture. |
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