by Barbara Dovarch Valenzuela City, Greater Manila. People building a realistic map of their settlement. Photo: Barbara Dovarch, 2013 . People mapping is a creative and serious game Local knowledge…
by Barbara Dovarch Hung Hoa Commune, Vinh, Vietnam. Men, women, children, and elders mapping together. Photo: Barbara Dovarch, 2013 . Hung Hoa Commune, Vinh, Vietnam. Women Union’s community member…
by Barbara Dovarch Upolu, Samoa. Students of Lauli’i Primary School tracing the contour lines to manufacture their Participatory 3D (P3D) model of Lauli’i land area. Photo: Paulo Amerika, 2012 …
Text by Francesca Price Photographs by Clare Benson Peder Nilsson with two of his dogs and a lamb on his farm on the island of Brudholmen. We Feed the…
Text and artwork by Colleen Corrigan “Without language you can’t describe your Country.” —Melinda Holden (Gurang Elder) View of the Burnett River, one of three important watercourses for Traditional Owners…
by Jean Thomas The Tenkile, a tree kangaroo unique to Papua New Guinea. Photo: Mark Hanlin, n.d. . For tens of thousands of years, the people of Papua New Guinea…
by Eliza Smith People on traditional canoes on Lake Bunyonyi in western Uganda, paddling toward the boat landing at the local marketplace. Photo: Eliza Smith, 2017 . It was a specific…
Text, photos, and drawings by Saori Ogura Dawn in the village of Mazvihwa. 2016 Dawn in the village. As the Milky Way—gwararakurumvi—recedes from a sky of deep navy blue, birds…
by Hilary Vidalakis There’s a tiny subculture of place-loving men and women who specialize in burning the land. “Prescribed fire,” they call it, though the term strikes me as arrogant;…
by Stephen Houston “We have survived the white man’s world.” —from the song “We Have Survived,” written and performed by Bart Willoughby with the Aboriginal band No Fixed Address, 1981…
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