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Visions for Sustainability, 2022

Critical issues for water sustainability and climate change" Guest Editors: Shé Mackenzie Hawke a... more Critical issues for water sustainability and climate change" Guest Editors: Shé Mackenzie Hawke and Reingard Spannring Contents EDITORIAL: Critical inter-disciplinary and inter-species approaches to water sustainability and climate change issues. Hawke, Spannring 3-10 Understanding interdisciplinarity through Adriatic maricultures and climate change adaptation.

Pedagogy in the Anthropocene: Re-Wilding Education for a New Earth, 2022

Endorsed by Professor Will Steffen and Professor Makere Stewart-Harawira This book confronts new... more Endorsed by Professor Will Steffen and Professor Makere Stewart-Harawira
This book confronts new pedagogical challenges of the Anthropocene era. The authors argue that this new epoch, with an unstable climate and new varieties of globally spreading viruses, calls for a re-invigoration in education and an alertness to new philosophies of education, pedagogical imaginations, thoughts and practices. Addressing the linkages between the Anthropocene and Pedagogy across a broad pedagogical and cultural spectrum that is both formal and informal, the editors and their contributors emphasize a re-imagining of education that is alive, and serves to deepen our understandings of the capacities and values of all planetary life.

Reflective Practice and Everyday Life, 2018

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND COPYRIGHT Acknowledgement of Land and Traditional Owners Calvary acknowledg... more ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND COPYRIGHT
Acknowledgement of Land and Traditional Owners
Calvary acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which all our services operate. We acknowledge that these Custodians have walked upon and cared for these lands for thousands of years.
We acknowledge the continued deep spiritual attachment and relationship of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to this country and commit ourselves to the ongoing journey of Reconciliation.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are respectfully advised that this publication may contain the words, voices, names, images and/or descriptions of people who have passed away.
Nature photographs courtesy of: Shé Hawke, Amanda Kocz, and Greg St John. Copyright for other images has been sought and attributed.
The authors/editors: Anna Cirocco and Shé Hawke are grateful to the original vision team, and the broader Mission and Marketing teams for
their collegial and artistic support of this project. The inspiration and encouragement of the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary here in Canberra, and nationally has also been gratefully received, and we are very honoured for the opportunity to continue and enliven this important work. We are especially grateful to the Sisters for prayers, images and history. We are also extremely grateful to Michael Leunig, Annie Franklin, and Maria Ionova-Gribina for generously sharing their artwork.

Rowman & Littlefield, 2021

Shame, Gender Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from contemporary, concrete atrocit... more Shame, Gender Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from contemporary, concrete atrocities against women and marginalized communties to re-conceptualize moral shame and to set moral shame apart from dimensions of subordination, humiliation, and disgrace. The inter-disciplinary collection starts with a contribution from a a Yazidi-survivor of genocidal and sexual violence, whose case brings together core themes: gender, ethnic and religious identity, and violence and shame. Further accounts of shame and gendered violence in this collection take the reader to other and equally disturbing accounts of lesser- known atrocities from around the. Although shame is sometimes posited as an innevitable companion to human life, editors Lenart ŠkofandShé M. Hawke situate the discussion in the theoretical landscape of shame, and the contributors challenge this concept through fields as diverse as law, journalism, activism, philosophy, theology, ecofeminism, and gender and cultural studies. Their discussion of gendered shame makes room for it to be both a negative and a redemptive concept. Combining junior and senior scholarship, this collection examines power relations in the cycle of shame and violence.

Shame, Gender, Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice, 2021

Kelly Oliver and Clifton Evers write the following praise for this edition: “Shé M. Hawke and Le... more Kelly Oliver and Clifton Evers write the following praise for this edition:
“Shé M. Hawke and Lenart Škof have carefully curated an international collection of loving, sensitive, hopeful, rigorous, and original multi- disciplinary scholarship that learns from and honors survivors by witnessing their stories. In so doing, we learn about how shame converges with violence. Each chapter provides unique opportunities for the reader to be nurtured through analyses of shame and violence to cultivate change to their own and others' ways of life that may directly or indirectly enable violence and injustice. This book is an essential resource to understand what relationships among power, shame, and violence do. Yet, it is more than that. The reader is provided with opportunities to reflect on how survivors instruct a non-violent advocacy that guides us closer to understanding justice and rights for all humans, other species, and the environment.” Dr Clifton Evers, Newcastle University, UK.

"This important volume brings together diverse textual testimonies of gendered violence from voices less often heard within the academy. These essays powerfully expose and analyze the intersections of gender, shame, violence, and injustice and the systematic use of gendered terror to enforce the subordination of women across the globe. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned about global gender justice." Professor Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University. USA.

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EDITED BY LENART ŠKOF AND SHÉ M. HAWKE -
CONTRIBUTIONS BY JANET H. ANDERSON; JANE BARTER; BENJAMIN DUERR; ROUBA EL HELOU-SENSENIG; VITA EMERY; SHÉ M. HAWKE; CECILIA HERLES; FARIDA KHALAF; AARON LOONEY; DANNY MARRERO; MELISSA MCKAY; ELEANOR SANDERSON; SASHINUNGLA; LENART ŠKOF AND VOJKO STRAHOVNIK
Shame, Gender Violence, and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from contemporary, concrete atrocities against women and marginalized communities to re-conceptualize moral shame and to set moral shame apart from dimensions of subordination, humiliation, and disgrace. The interdisciplinary collection starts with a contribution from a Yazidi-survivor of genocidal and sexual violence, whose case brings together core themes: gender, ethnic and religious identity, and violence and shame. Further accounts of shame and gendered violence in this collection take the reader to other and equally disturbing accounts of lesser-known atrocities from around the world. Although shame is sometimes posited as an inevitable companion to human life, editors Lenart Škof and Shé M. Hawke situate the discussion in the theoretical landscape of shame, and the contributors challenge this concept through fields as diverse as law, journalism, activism, philosophy, theology, ecofeminism, and gender and cultural studies. Their discussion of gendered shame makes room for it to be both a negative and a redemptive concept. Combining junior and senior scholarship, this collection examines power relations in the cycle of shame and violence.

Journal Articles by Shé Hawke

Visions for Sustainability, 2023

Current climate crises could be considered an end of times as we have known them, requiring the h... more Current climate crises could be considered an end of times as we have known them, requiring the human species as stewards of Creation, to make revolutionary changes to how the planet has been mis treated. Are wethe people of the twenty-first century Anthropocene age-also capable of a "Copernican revolution [evident] in Paul's thinking" (Witherington 2005, p.

Visions for Sustainability: Special Issue - Critical issues for water sustainability and climate change”. Visions for Sustainability, 18, 3-10 , 2022

This special issue represents critical intersections within and between different disciplinary fi... more This special issue represents critical intersections within and between different disciplinary fields, cultures and methodologies towards water sustainability praxis and understanding and climate change mitigation strategies. In recent years both an increasing volume of scientific research and successive international confer- ences on climate have made it very clear that the linkage between critical issues of sustainability (and indeed all the elements that comprise planet earth), continues to be under-considered. No element or cultural context is any less significant than another. At the same time, recent discussions on issues like equity in access to fresh water and many other aspects related to climate change are often over- shadowed by the incessant emphasis placed on the global goal to reduce earth’s atmospheric temperature by 1.5 degrees Celsius by actions such as reducing emis- sions or carbon capture. This is, of course, a critical issue, yet the quest for solu- tions requires understanding that all facets of life, weather and climate are inex- tricably interlinked, as strategies for resolving or mitigating must also be. Our search for “constructive alignment” (Biggs and Tang, 2015) between the ecolog- ical, socio-cultural, and economic concerns of sustainability involves making rad- ical departures, some of which appear in each of the papers published in this Special Issue of Visions for Sustainability.

Visions for Sustainability https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8677/6945 , 2022

Abstract. The consequences of accelerating climate change for land and sea biodiversity requi... more Abstract.

The consequences of accelerating climate change for land and sea biodiversity require innovative approaches to research. Interdisciplinary re- search serves to connect natural science, social sciences and humanities, tech- nology, and engineering, as well as welcoming citizen scientists into the re- search environment. Interdisciplinarity is part of a developing innovative ap- proach to research that emphasizes co-evolution of traditional sciences, with citizen science and participatory engagement in the realisation of research goals and the promotion of climate change mitigation strategies. In this article, through the example of shellfish maricultures we illustrate interdisciplinarity, particularly demonstrating how marine biology, health and well-being, social science and cultural geography come together at the interface between nature, culture, and climate change mitigation strategies.

Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 2012

This paper draws on Indigenous Australian relationships with water as evidenced in the particular... more This paper draws on Indigenous Australian relationships with water as evidenced in the particular cross-cultural and cross-literary collaboration ‘Sustainable Futures’1 between the Widjabul/Bundjalung Nations of New South Wales, Australia, and Lismore local government managed water authority, Rous Water. It also references the ecological dialogue with traditional owners put forward by Jessica Weir and the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (Victoria). In both cases non-Indigenes from economics and politics, socio-cultural geography as well as local activist citizens have been invited into dialogue, and into particular Indigenous knowledge systems, to co-create water management strategies for Australia’s troubled river systems. The motivation behind such cross-cultural dialogue is hope for a meaningful future of sustainability in which human rights and notions of reverence are imbricated.

ETIAM - Revista Agustiniana de Pensamiento - ISSN 1851-2682 impreso // ISSNe 2781-6296, 2021

Con mucho esfuerzo y constancia, presentamos el último número de la entrañable ETIAM, la publicac... more Con mucho esfuerzo y constancia, presentamos el último número de la entrañable ETIAM, la publicación fundada por el recordado Mons. José Demetrio Jiménez, OSA , en su edición XVa. en formato electrónico.

Agradecemos ante todo el encomiable trabajo de Fr.Javier Campos, OSA referido a la fecunda actividad misionera de los Agustinos en el Perú del siglo XVI, es un honor que tan importante pluma nos acompañe en este esforzado volumen que, con mucha voluntad venimos a editar.
Buena parte del cuerpo de los trabajos que continúan, corresponden a la Séptima edición de las Jornadas de Estudios Patrísticos que la Biblioteca organiza con el concurso de otras entidades académicas, que favorecen la organización y desempeño de los expositores y asistentes y que como ha sido virtual, se ha contado con una recepción de trabajos no solo de nivel regional (América Latina ) sino de otras latitudes (Europa, Asia y Oceanía ). En 2021 el lema convocante ha sido: “Mulier, quid ploras?” (Jn 20.15). Imágenes y Lecturas de lo femenino en los Padres de la Iglesia

Revista Agustiniana de Pensamiento ETIAM , 2021

This paper argues for the re-instatement or the first inclusion of women in the Christian Canon, ... more This paper argues for the re-instatement or the first inclusion of women in the Christian Canon, through a genealogy of early church mothers .

La revista ETIAM es indexada desde sus inicios en IMB (International Medieval Bibliography (University of Leeds)), en BINPAR (Bibliografía Nacional de Publicaciones Periódicas Argentinas Registradas del Caycit (CONICET)), en DIALNET (La Rioja, España), en BIBP (Based’Information Bibliographique en Patristique, Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses Université Laval-Québec.) The Ancient World OnlineAWOL/ University of Michigan USA, Centro Studi Antoniani Italia, Inter-Classica - Universidad de Murcia, LatinRev - FLACSO, Historical Bibliography of The Augustinian Order – Utrecht. LATINDEX.

Visions for Sustainability, 2022

Abstract. Diverse inheritances of knowledge and experiences, along with current explorations of h... more Abstract. Diverse inheritances of knowledge and experiences, along with current explorations of holistic sustainability, shows the potential for ecolog- ical longevity and how entanglements with natural worlds might be re- thought toward a better sharing of the world. Through an interdisciplinary
lens, this article re-considers Edward O Wilson’s rendering of biophilia, as a response to present Anthropocene crises. The paper further argues for a stronger re-turn to First Nations ontologies, sustainability practices and dia- logue, in the hope of re-discovering how being ‘a part of’ nature might better endorse a ‘love of nature’. Embedded in such inter-disciplinary and critical embodiment praxis are signification systems shown through nature/culture confluences, spiritual beliefs and traditions, that form part of a knowledge plexus that calls on humanity to act urgently.

Visions for Sustainability, 2022

Diverse inheritances of knowledge and experiences, along with current explorations of holistic su... more Diverse inheritances of knowledge and experiences, along with current explorations of holistic sustainability, shows the potential for ecological longevity and how entanglements with natural worlds might be rethought toward a better sharing of the world. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this article reconsiders Edward O Wilson's rendering of biophilia, as a response to present Anthropocene crises. The paper further argues for a stronger return to First Nations ontologies, sustainability practices and dialogue, in the hope of rediscovering how being 'a part of' nature might better endorse a 'love of nature'. Embedded in such inter-disciplinary and critical embodiment praxis are signification systems shown through nature/culture confluences, spiritual beliefs and traditions, that form part of a knowledge plexus that calls on humanity to act urgently.

Journal of Youth Studies, 2021

ABSTRACT The Anthropocene has come to signify human dominance over the more-than-human world with... more ABSTRACT
The Anthropocene has come to signify human dominance over the more-than-human world with all its negative consequences for this planet’s human and nonhuman inhabitants. As young people have started to express their feelings of concern and frustration with the inertia of the political elites, youth research, too, is called upon to reconsider and broaden its perspective. In particular, we argue, that the Anthropocene challenges anthropocentrism, dualisms, and traditional notions of agency in youth research, and must be critiqued through multi-disciplinary investigation. A transgression of the mainstream paradigm in youth research through the perspective of Complex Adaptive Systems Theory (CAS) could provide much needed analyses of a broad range of issues at the intersection of youth and ecological concerns. This article will therefore outline Complex Adaptive Systems Theory (CAS) as a multi-disciplinary tool, and apply it to two examples: the biosocial system of the Elwha River waterscape, and the #Fridays for Future strikes that are both motivated by environmental concerns. Finally, it discusses the possible contributions of a CAS approach in youth research to a better understanding of agency and change in ecologically turbulent times.

Visions for sustainability, 2021

This article examines the practical implications of ecological democracy or ecodemocracy, inquiri... more This article examines the practical implications of ecological democracy or ecodemocracy, inquiring how capable democratic societies are of addressing environmental challenges. It asks: What is needed to secure democratic legitimacy for policy measures to benefit nonhuman species? What would ecodemocracy look like in practice? Different types of existing and possible types of representation are discussed, including the expansion of the precautionary principle, the Council of All Beings or Parliament of Things, and representation through the Parties for Animals. A possible approach in the form of a mandate for proxy ecorepresentation similar to civil rights through continuous affirmative action is investigated. Limitations and possibilities of each approach for nature representation are weighed.

Visions for Sustainability, 2021

Acquire my peace within yourselves! (...) For the child of true Humanity exists within you. Fol... more Acquire my peace within yourselves! (...) For the child of true Humanity exists within you. Follow it! Those who seek for it will find. Gos Mary 4:2, 5-71
SUMMARY – The roles of women through whom a Matrology might be derived, are examined here in two ways: firstly, and according to apocryphal, historical and contemporary interpretations, through precarious gender relations of the political and historical context of the patriarchal Greco-Roman world; and secondly, by analysing both reductionist and inclusive accounts of women’s witness and role in the early Christian Church as ascetics, translators, benefactors, teachers and companion equals to early Church Fathers. That this disparity, and further omission of women from the Christian canon has been sustained until the twenty first century, makes such a study and reconsideration imperative to the veracity of studies in spirituality and theology.

Poligrafi, 2018

The Exile of Greek Metis: Recovering a maternal divine ontology

Sophia International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, 2020

It is simply no longer acceptable to speak of the goddess Athena from the fifth generation of O... more It is simply no longer acceptable to speak of the goddess Athena from the fifth generation of Olympian/Orphic Greece without reference to her mother Metis. Hesiod (1959), among others, tells us Metis appears as a reincarnation of her first-generation self in the Olympian dynasty as wife of Zeus. She was originally the cosmic egg of all creation in the Orphic Theogony, as recounted by Apollodorus (1921), and Taylor (1896), from whose mucosity, the entire gene-alogy of the Olympian/Orphic heaven (and theology), is spawned. However, from the moment Zeus murdered Metis as she was about to give birth to Athena their daughter, she has lapsed into the fissures of forgetfulness in philosophy, theology, mythology and early psychoanalysis. Indeed, in each field of inquiry, Athena is overwhelmingly deemed 'unmothered' and produced as Harrison tells us as a desperate ploy 'from the brain of Zeus' through his cunning intellect, for Athena to serve as his 'mouthpiece' (Harrison 1922, 648). This paper seeks to do more than simply restore Metis as mother to Athena. It explores the tragedy inherited by her violent removal, for mother/daughter relations, grievability and sustained disavowal of maternal divinity in dominant discourse.

Pravičnost, sram, nasilje in feminino : filozofski in večdisciplinarni vpogledi. , 2021

I. Filozofski, antropološki, mitološki in teološki uvidi v femininost, sram in nasilje Sigridur ... more I. Filozofski, antropološki, mitološki in teološki uvidi v femininost, sram in nasilje
Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir: Sram, ranljivost in filozofsko mišljenje
Morny Joy: Nasilje, ranljivost, prekarnost in njihove sodobne različice
Shé M. Hawke: Izginula Metidina himna: izvor izgube
Nadja Furlan Štante: Marija kot arhetip (post)krščanske paradigme kozmične pravičnosti
PRAVIČNOST, SRAM, NASILJE IN FEMININO. Filozofski in večdisciplinarni vpogledi

Uredili / Editors: Nadja Furlan Štante, Maja Bjelica, Lenart Škof

Monografija Pravičnost, sram, nasilje in feminino: filozofski in večdisciplinarni vpogledi (…) je v Sloveniji prvi primer širše obravnave problematike sramu povezano z vprašanjem pravičnosti in nasilja v okviru širšega izročila humanističnih ved.
Celotna monografija ubesedi relevantne ključne probleme žensk, nasilja, sramu in njihovega pomena v sodobni filozofsko-etični misli. Ženske so bile v filozofskem in ostalem izročilu aprioristično postavljene v položaj, da jih je (mora biti: »pripada ženski eksistenci«) sram, čeprav je sram izraz splošno-človeške izpostavljenosti. Delo je odličen prispevek razreševanja filozofskih, teoloških in socioloških dilem sodobne družbe in tako smerokaz temeljnim znanstvenim razpravam na teh področjih in v celotni humanistiki. Obenem je zgleden prispevek širšemu diskurzu o teh zahtevnih vprašanjih sodobne družbe, odprt bralstvu, ki ga zanimajo ta vprašanja.

Iz recenzije zasl. prof. dr. Janeza Juhanta

Znanstvena monografija že v svojem bogatem naslovu nakazuje na to, da bo bralcem postregla s širokim naborom zanimivih tem s področja humanizma, ki so plod raziskovanja in preučevanja znanstvenic in znanstvenikov različnih humanističnih smeri.
Monografija prinaša nove uvide v koncepte pravičnosti, nasilja, sramu in femininega, pri čemer poskuša posamezne pojme med seboj povezati v nove relacije. Pri tem gre izpostaviti, da je izvirnost in poseben doprinos monografije prav v korelacijah med temi različnimi pojmi, ki so v našem domačem znanstvenem področju na polju humanistike v takšnih povezavah manj znani in obravnavani. Prav zaradi tega pomeni monografija bogat in izviren doprinos za razvoj znanstvenega področja in je izjemnega pomena za slovenski znanstveni prostor. Preučevanje tematike in aktualizacija tudi pomembno vplivata na razvoj znanstvene in strokovne terminologije.

Iz recenzije doc. dr. Mateje Pevec Rozman

Izdaja monografije je bila finančno podprta s strani Javne agencije za raziskovalno dejavnost Slovenije.

Visions for Sustainability, 2022

Pedagogy in the Anthropocene: Re-Wilding Education for a New Earth, 2022

Reflective Practice and Everyday Life, 2018

Rowman & Littlefield, 2021

Shame, Gender, Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice, 2021

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Visions for Sustainability, 2023

Visions for Sustainability: Special Issue - Critical issues for water sustainability and climate change”. Visions for Sustainability, 18, 3-10 , 2022

Visions for Sustainability https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8677/6945 , 2022

Abstract. The consequences of accelerating climate change for land and sea biodiversity requi... more Abstract.

Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 2012

ETIAM - Revista Agustiniana de Pensamiento - ISSN 1851-2682 impreso // ISSNe 2781-6296, 2021

Revista Agustiniana de Pensamiento ETIAM , 2021

Visions for Sustainability, 2022

Journal of Youth Studies, 2021

Visions for sustainability, 2021

Visions for Sustainability, 2021

Poligrafi, 2018

The Exile of Greek Metis: Recovering a maternal divine ontology

Sophia International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, 2020

Pravičnost, sram, nasilje in feminino : filozofski in večdisciplinarni vpogledi. , 2021

Uredili / Editors: Nadja Furlan Štante, Maja Bjelica, Lenart Škof

Iz recenzije zasl. prof. dr. Janeza Juhanta

Iz recenzije doc. dr. Mateje Pevec Rozman

Izdaja monografije je bila finančno podprta s strani Javne agencije za raziskovalno dejavnost Slovenije.

ANUAC , 2017

This article maps the confluence of biosocial relations through the agential networks of water. I... more This article maps the confluence of biosocial relations through the agential networks of water. In the language of the environmental humanities and social sciences, such relations and networks are biosocial and sacralised (Meloni, Williams, Martin 2016; Mangiameli 2013). The self-organisation of aquatic environments in these relations towards humans is engaged in an ongoing process of entanglement and adaptation in parallel with human understandings and approaches to water. This article imagines new and conscientious behaviour that might treat the ubiquitous river more gently, against the tensions and provocations of the Anthropocene Epoch. It argues for the development of fresh sustainability logic; a hydro-logic that cultivates connectivity, adaptive capacity, and broader water values that exist beyond the containment of the commodification paradigm (that are particularly evident among First Nations peoples). This logic necessarily includes a reconsideration of economic, ecological, customary and recreational values in more balanced measure. By configuring water as a complex adaptive stream of intra, inter and extra-relationships, this research champions waters' multi-dimensional capacity and agency for the purpose of advancing more sustainable biosocial water futures within a geosocial matrix.

Thalassa; Journal of Hungarian Psychoanalysis, 2008

Abstract The later work of Sándor Ferenczi was awash with salt-water inquiry that arises out of ... more Abstract
The later work of Sándor Ferenczi was awash with salt-water inquiry that arises out of the oceanic depths of the Thalassal Trend. The purpose of this chapter is, through a poetics of water, to illuminate the property of salt water and wonder as Ferenczi did about its relationship to human evolution through a reading of amphimixis, and the evolution of tears, the latter engaging the work of Elaine Morgan. We are particularly interested in the clinical presentation of phylogenetic or thalassal regression, as reported in his seminal work: Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality (1924), and later works including The Clinical Diary (1933) and what the contemporary multi-disciplinary (particularly ficto-critical) application of such ideas might mean.

Altitude e-journal , 2011

"This article explores the evolution of water as charted by earlier scientific and more recent mu... more "This article explores the evolution of water as charted by earlier scientific and more recent multidisciplinary inquiry. Its value lies in its scientific parallel to mythic water, creation and the maternal, through disavowed Greek mythic water deity Metis and how her absence from dominant discourse may have
inadvertently influenced current evolutionary theory. This paper demonstrates crossovers and tensions between the disciplines of hard science through the work of Charles Darwin, particularly The Descent of Man (1859), and feminist humanities through the work of Elaine Morgan. It also elucidates psychoanalyst
Sándor Ferenczi’s concept of utraquism at the biological and evolutionary level, as a methodological tool. Darwin does not refute that life began in the sea, but what is missing in his account is what happened after the amoeba migrated to land, and how human beings evolved from this simple life form.
Or did they? Further, I consider the work of tears and their inter-relationship
to biology, affect and emotion."

Associazone Nazionale Universitaria Antropologi Culturali, ITALIA

palgrave-journals.com Feminist Review, 2013

Pedagogy in the Anthropocene: Re-wilding Education for a New Earth, 2022

The idea for this book arose in the spring of 2020. It began when one of us, Michael Paulsen, in ... more The idea for this book arose in the spring of 2020. It began when one of us, Michael Paulsen, in December 2019 wanted to join the conference “Anthropocene—Reworking the Wound” in Katowice, Poland on June 17 to June 20, 2020, and offered to chair a panel session on “Pedagogies of the Anthropocene (s)”. The conference organizers, Ania Malinowska and Karolina Lebek, then wrote back affirmatively, after which Michael began to look for researchers to join the panel. The interest was indeed great, and already on January 10, 2020, we registered four panel sessions with a total of 20 researchers from around the world. Everyone was very excited to meet in Katowice. However, then COVID-19 pandemic came— the physical version of the conference was canceled, although some panels continued virtually. However, one of the panelists, jan jagodzinski, sug- gested that we “instead” transmute the panels into a book on Pedagogy and the Anthropocene. There seemed to be enough interest to reach the group that was to appear at the conference sessions. ‘I edit a series for Palgrave press called Educational Futures’, jan told Michael. Michael agreed to co-edit and wrote to the panelists to garner interest for such a book project. Most responded with a yes! One panelist, Shé Hawke, had been considering editing a Special Journal Issue on the Anthropocene and Inter-disciplinarity, with Reingard Spannring, and offered to consolidate editing energy into one robust and diverse book. As Reingard was now involved in another book, our editing team of three got to work. We drafted a proposal for Palgrave, which led to the publishing contract for us, for which we are extremely grateful. A huge thank you goes to Milana Vernikova, Antony Sami and everyone at Palgrave who helped with the execution of the book. Many thanks also to both the original panelists and the authors of the 16 chapters of this book. It has been a fantastic journey, with valued commitment from so many good people full of energy and passion for the project. Many of us have yet to meet in person, but we are not strangers to one another’s work, or our shared commitment to a ‘new earth’.

Being With You /Biti sTeboj, 2020

Shé Hawke je pesnica in interdisciplinarna znanstvenica. Prvo leto svojega bivanja v Sloveniji je... more Shé Hawke je pesnica in interdisciplinarna znanstvenica. Prvo leto svojega bivanja v Sloveniji je preživela v Sežani in se vanjo zaljubila. Prehodila je Kras in se spoznala z zgodovino, pokrajino, kulturo ter poezijo tega območja. Njena zanimanja na akademskem in osebnem področju se osredotočajo na okoljske in socialne pravice. Zaposlena je kot predstojnica Mediteranskega inštituta za okoljske študije Znanstveno-raziskovalnega središča Koper in je častna sodelavka oddelka za študije spola in kulturne študije na Univerzi v Sydneyu. Leta 2020 je za svoja pesniška besedila prejela zlato priznanje na natečaju Javnega sklada RS za kulturne dejavnosti Sosed tvojega brega. Shé Hawke is a poet and inter-disciplinary scholar. She spent her first year in Slovenia living in (and falling in love with) Sežana, where she walked the Karst to familiarise herself with the history, landscape, culture and poetry of Slovenia.
Jointly published by JSKD, Apokalipsa, and Društvo Konstruktivist Slovenia in 2020, and launched on Prešeren Day 8 February 2021
Pesmi sta prevedli Barbara Korun in Iva Jevtić. Spremno besedo sta prispevala Barbara Korun in Aleksander Peršolja.

Flight Mode published by Recent Work Press, 2020

These poems emerged slowly, and through aleatory conversations between Shé and Jen, in which they... more These poems emerged slowly, and through aleatory conversations between Shé and Jen, in which they identified points of connection in and beyond poetry. Both poets are interested in experiment, and in women poets’ voices; both have lived in Western Australia and been captivated by the light, the space, and the vastness of that state; and both poets have spent a fair bit of time in mourning and in responding to the loss of loved ones. They are also interested in movement in creative and scholarly terms. For Shé, the elemental world is a motivating force; for Jen, it’s travel—hence the title of this joint publication.

‘In this collection Jen Webb and Shé Hawke coalesce human and elemental experiences of air, water, and spirit. Flight Mode takes us swimming through waves of elegiac illuminations of grief and longing as well as irreverent re-articulations of meta-narratives, and under- spoken concerns at the nature culture threshold. The entanglement of these two vastly different writing styles delivers liminal and lyrical narration that ripples across inner monologues, skin, desire, and world-making. These writers will take your breath away and then help you jubilantly breathe once more. ’
Dr Clifton Evers
University of Newcastle UK

Aquamorphia is a mythological, psychological and elemental poetic history of water in three deepl... more Aquamorphia is a mythological, psychological and elemental poetic history of water in three deeply engulfing parts that travels from the First Cause in ancient Greek myth through the fall from grace, arriving finally on the Antipodean beach.
Each section of this tumultuous and exciting water narrative takes the reader for a ride on different streams of intoxicating, daring and under-told water stories.
To be launched by Professor Vrasidas Karalis at the Modern Greek Studies Conference at the University of Sydney on December 4th at 5.30 (Madsen Building) 2014, with an introduction from Eleni Nickas.: The book engages with Greek mythology, and the work of Luce Irigaray and feminist philosophy as well as gender studies and the environmental humanities

ISBN 978-1-925231-00-7

Pedagogy in the Anthropocene , 2022

Abstract We now live in the geological epoch called the Anthropocene (Crutzen & Stoermer, 2000; S... more Abstract
We now live in the geological epoch called the Anthropocene (Crutzen & Stoermer, 2000; Steffen et al., 2011; Zalasiewicz et al., 2008; Steffen et al., 2016; Morton, 2016; Sørlin, 2017; Ellis, 2018). In this age, Anthropos, through human activities, technologies and alterations of the global environment have begun to affect the whole life-critical zone of the Earth more than ever before, and more than anything else (Lin, 2010; Latour, 2017). The consequences are many: “the great acceleration” of technology, industry, agriculture, and an over-use of natural resources (McNeill & Engelke, 2016), mass extinctions (see for example Chap. 2), global warming (Oreskes & Conway, 2011), collapse of eco-systems (Steffen et al., 2006), and the spread of pandemics and multi-resistant bacteria. All this promises an ever more impoverished earth if we continue along the prevailing trajectory. Innovative, integrated, achievable, and inclusive pedagogical intervention into climate change and Anthropocene damage, form the two-pronged yet intertwined focus of this collection.

Pedagogy in the Anthropocene, 2022

In this we argue that humans have a duty of care towards nature that must be more effectively and... more In this we argue that humans have a duty of care towards nature that must be more effectively and inclusively realised before further willful damage is unleashed on the planet. Our focus is specifically waterscapes in relation to how they interact with other natural, earth and cultural systems.
We engage citizen scientists to do some field work on their relationship with a water course of their choice. The data procured, while a small data set, provides further provocation to get students and citizens into nature more, and to meet it on its own terms, 'as its own self' as Deborah Bird Rose (2007) puts it.

Palgrave Macmillan

CHAPTER 10
Embodying the Earth: Environmental Pedagogy, Re-wilding Waterscapes and Human Consciousness
Shé M. Hawke and Reingard Spannring
EMBODYING KNOWLEDGE: AN INTRODUCTION
In this chapter we argue that humans have a duty of care towards nature that must be more effectively and inclusively realised before further willful damage is unleashed on the planet. Our focus is specifically waterscapes in relation to how they interact with other natural, earth and cultural sys- tems. As Steffen, Crutzen and McNeil declared in 2007 when naming the Anthropocene Epoch and its fallout, “the future of Earth’s environment and its ability to provide the services required to maintain viable human
S. M. Hawke (*)
Medietrranean Institute for Environmental Studies, Science and Research Centre of Koper, Koper, Slovenia
e-mail: she.m.hawke@zrs-kp.si
R. Spannring
Institute for Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature 197 Switzerland AG 2022
M. Paulsen et al. (eds.), Pedagogy in the Anthropocene, Palgrave
Studies in Educational Futures, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90980-2_10

Borders Debordering, 2018

, 2018 Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages from interdisciplinary a... more , 2018 Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives some of the most important issues of the present, which lay at the intersection of physical, epistemological, spiritual, and existential borders. The book addresses a variety of topics connected with the role of the body at the threshold between subjective identities and intersubjective spaces that are drawn in ontology, epistemology and ethics, as well as with borders inscribed in intersubjective, social, and political spaces (such as gender/sexuality/race, human/animal/nature/ technology divisions). The book is divided in three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their possible debordering. The first section offers insights into bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the development of the concept of the " border " in ancient China. The second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in different cultural and social spheres – from Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial hospitableness.

The purpose of this chapter is to propose a new path for queer theory that will more cogently ass... more The purpose of this chapter is to propose a new path for queer theory that will more cogently assist sexual diversity and cultural studies to address and expand our understandings, knowledge and experience of human sexuality. Queer theory as a non-normative critical humanist approach has a profound relationship with real, everyday emancipatory pedagogy. When queer theory is entrenched within a cultural studies pedagogical context it has the potential to radically shift the learning experience of students. Our intentions in this chapter are tripartite in focus: to offer a critique of pedagogical space and how it incorporates or not, queer subjectivities and queer practices; to write self-reflexively using a ficto-critical narrative voice about our teaching methodology, experience and practice, and to offer new conditions of possibility in queer(y)ing pedagogy based on our lived experience and critical inquiry. The critical reflections in this chapter are informed by the following experiences of teaching sexuality at two universities in New South Wales, Australia: Southern Cross University (SCU) and the University of Sydney (UniSyd.)

https://score-eu-project.eu

Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities (acronym: SCORE) Call: ... more Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities (acronym: SCORE)
Call: H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2019-2020 Topic: LC-CLA-13-2020
European Commission 2021-2025

Costal City Living labs (CCLL) is one of the main concepts behind SCORE: it is a new approach that expands the living lab concept in coastal cities to address climate change adaptation and resilience issues.
• The overall aim of SCORE is to design, develop, monitor and validate robust adaptation measures in coastal and low-lying areas to protect them from increasing climate and sea level risks, including coastal flooding and erosion, to enhance their overall long-term resilience.
• SCORE is based on co-design, co-development, deploying, testing, and demonstrating innovative EBAs, smart technologies and hybrid Nature Based Solutions (NBSs), while facilitating financial sustainability.
• Lead Partner Dr Salem Gharbia It Sligo, Ireland
• Slovenian Lead, Dr Shé Hawke, accompanied By Dr Cécil Meulenberg; Dr Irina Cavaion; Dr Blaž Lenarčič
Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies, Science and Research Centre (ZRS), Koper, Slovenia.

Surviving the Anthropocene through Inventing New Ecological Justice and Biosocial Philosophical L... more Surviving the Anthropocene through Inventing New Ecological Justice and Biosocial Philosophical Literacy
A co-authored and investigated research project funded by the ARRS (J7-1824 Slovenia) at Science and Research Centre (ZRS) through the Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies (MIOS), Koper, Slovenia,
https://www.zrs-kp.si/index.php/en/antropocene/#1524471829769-1b150e93-628c
and FWF (Austria) 2019-2022.

(Foto: River in Voldertal near Innsbruck, Austria © Spannring)
PRELUDE
Listen to water
narrate
the world

murmur to itself

as an un-predictive
polymorphous text ...
(Shé Hawke)
Background and aims

(Foto: Lake Bled, Slovenia © Spannring)
This project aims to resolve the perceived clash between culture, nature, ethics, and policy in the Anthropocene through a critical inter-disciplinary approach. It offers a new space for the exploration of elemental water and the development of water literacy. Water animates all life and critically relies on appropriate conditions for expression, co-evolvement and life-supporting reorganization. A critical aspect of the research project is an innovative, inclusive eco-pedagogical approach that inspires a range of stakeholders, and is invested in disrupting pre-existing structural obstacles and perceptions of the more-than-human world as "resource" or "environmental service provider".
Nature has been increasingly commoditised and ecologically degraded through lack of effective, companion-centred mutual respect and ethical governance and wise stewardship of nature (Hawke&Palsson 2017). By centering ecology and navigating new ecological justice through new hydro-logics, the proposed research will champion connectivity and resilience, awe and wonder. The flow on aims and effects of these motivations is to inspire accountability in educational design and citizen engagement that speaks with nature, rather than about nature as a passive and subordinate ‘other’. This necessarily inter-disciplinary project has three main objectives:
I. To understand and co-direct water and its connections more holistically as having environmental, economic and cultural value through ecological literacy;
II. To enact water literacy as understood philosophically and socio-culturally through the application of CAS towards new ontological direction;
III. To advance ecological restorative justice and intersubjective ethics in theory and praxis through innovative philosophy and bio-respect for elemental worlds founded in distinct, creative and inclusive pedagogy.
Researchers include/have included P. Berndston; M. Bjelica; N. Dolšak; N. Furlan Štante; S. M. Hawke; K. Nemac; L. Škof, and R. Spannring.

Guest Keynote for the Ocean Governance Conference in Piran in which I offered the optic of Comple... more Guest Keynote for the Ocean Governance Conference in Piran in which I offered the optic of Complex Adaptive Systems Theory and the writing of Jules Michelet's La Mer, as a way of navigating our love of the ocean and sustainable and caring ways of managing its resources, while being aware that the oceans carry different meanings. For many the ocean is a place of leisure, for others a way of life and a job and still for others a passage to freedom and escape from horrors in home territories

1. Thank you Clif and James for the invitation into these webs of relation, these entanglements b... more 1. Thank you Clif and James for the invitation into these webs of relation, these entanglements between nature, people, pollution and ideas. Clif and I have been friends for 15 years and our advocacy and love for water is life long and apparent in our research. I am unashamed to describe myself as persistently falling for water, addicted to the fall and flows of water however small. I suffer from phylogenetic regression, which in psychoanalytic speak means, the desire to return to the state of rest before birth in that amniotic sea of the mothers womb-our first home, our first love. I don't have to be traumatised beyond the action of birth to desire this (yet traumatised people and creatures also desire this in earnest). Water simply put, creates a euphoric pond of being for me (and others), a drug like intoxication (that I call Aquamorphia), and if I am not in it, I do need to look upon it or hear it, or touch it, to feel whole, and integrated. I guess that makes me a corporeal waterist of sorts. 2. So … water-oceans, rivers, the moist air we breathe and exchange every 3 seconds, water that omniscient all-knowing narrator that 'directs our passage through the world' (Jean Luc Nancy, 2011:83) 1-'listen to water narrate the world, a polymorphous, un-predictive text' (Hawke 2014:1). 2 3. My original research area is Greek myth/eology; the genealogy of water through time and space according to the ancient Greeks. I have attempted to trace water story back to a cosmic beginning (but importantly not the only cosmic beginning) for the Orphics and the Greeks, beginning with the splitting of the Cosmic Egg (Hawke 2014; Hawke 2018) 3. Other cultural and theological narratives consider water deities but today I speak to the Greek narrative, the Sacred Mysteries.

Abstract Current planetary rates of population growth and associated industrial, military and ag... more Abstract
Current planetary rates of population growth and associated industrial, military and agricultural development already exceed what the natural environment, changing weather patterns and clean water supply can sustain (Stockholm Resilience Centre: Nine Planetary Boundaries). This is both a global and local (g/local) issue that requires critical and collaborative policy review. This paper examines transformations in water management and policy and how that has been understood and enacted in Australia within its own borders, as an intra and trans boundary issue. It also provokes questions and possibilities about how effective international collaboration might create new currents of sustainability logic for water, through engagement with a variety of actors from everyday citizens to policy makers and management. Understanding water as the vital component to all life is not a new thought in dry landscapes such as Australia (or Israel), but it is one that needs expanding through a biosocial resilience optic that addresses economic, environmental and socio-cultural values of water in more sustainable measure.
This research and practice is invested in exploring innovative and inclusive ways to enact water management that values water as something other than just a commodity with use and exchange value, and that invokes a new ‘water literacy’ (Hawke 2012). According to cross cultural collaborators Moggridge (2012) and Acret, Bragg and Gordon (2012) while water is a commodity, it is also an ancestor with tangible and intangible spiritual properties containing customary values. Indigenous Australia has an historical and current reverence for water that sustained Aborigines for 40,000 years. This is less obvious in Australia’s 200 year old ‘settler descended’ economy and western science that has seen Australia overdraw the water account through unsuitable agricultural practices. Recent reforms in policy and collaborative management to ensure waters flow and distributive sharing are now evident in some sectors of Australian policy. This paper offers further methods of re-thinking and collaborating on water policy reform at the intra and transboundary level, locally and globally.

Biographical Information
Dr Shé Hawke is a transdisciplinary scholar invested in necessary entanglements between disciplinary fields, elements and genres in her environmental, philosophical and poetic work. She currently teaches at the Australian National University in the School of Sociology and is an Honorary Associate in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. Her latest book Aquamorphia: Falling for Water (Interactive Press) appeared in 2014 and maps the genealogy of water from divine beginnings to present times. She is engaged in appreciating and re-mapping what and how water means across disciplines, and how inclusivity of cross cultural values, literacy and diplomacy towards a new sustainability logic might be actualized.

Presented to Masters Students for the course: Development and Education In Young People and Adults (603872), 2023

This guest lecture unpacks the intricacies of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) to facilitate studen... more This guest lecture unpacks the intricacies of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) to facilitate student learning both within classroom settings and in outdoor research environments. Considering CAS as a transitional way of rethinking how we live in the world as beings in common, serves to empower student learning and doing in innovative ways. Additionally, understanding the notions of 'being with', 'affiliation' and 'deep listening' (Hawke and Spannring 2022), as we meet natural environments, can enhance student perceptions of the dynamic nature of life that is non-linear, co-evolving and exists best on the 'edge of chaos'

Presented at Leopold Franzen's University/University off Innsbruck, Austria , Department of Educational Sciences. Hosted by Reingard Spannring

AquaMOOC, 2022

MOOC is an acronym for Massive Online learning Platform. Simply put, an infinite number of peopl... more MOOC is an acronym for Massive Online learning Platform. Simply put, an infinite number of people can register to do a course on a MOOC. The Aqua MOOC is the first of its kind, dealing specifically with water and its inter-relationships with humans, cultures and natures.

This AquaMOOc is divided into 5 Learning Modules suitable for the general public, upper secondary school and entry level university. In the fifth Module participants are invited to contribute their own water story from wherever they are in the world.

Registration is free. at https://imoox.at/course/AquaMOOC?lang=en
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Climate change and extreme weather events are an ever-increasing concern on planet earth during t... more Climate change and extreme weather events are an ever-increasing concern on planet earth during this epoch called the Anthropocene. Water is front and centre in all these experiences from oceans rising, to increased floods and insect-borne diseases thriving in murky water. What can we do? We can all get involved in understanding how water moves around the planet, and our responsibility to sustain clean and accessible flows. Welcome to the launch of the AquaMOOC! This MOOC is a free online learning tool for everyday citizen scientists, secondary school students, and entry level university students. Out specific focus is water, hence, the name AquaMOOC. One of the aims

‘The entire cosmos shimmers with the presence of God’ (Burton-Christie, 2005: 478) This lecture c... more ‘The entire cosmos shimmers with the presence of God’ (Burton-Christie, 2005: 478) This lecture considers the degradation of the planet Earth and all of God's creation at the hands of human politics, greed and industrialisation. It re-visits both Old and New Testaments along with modern scholarship, to examine the gradual erosion of both faith and the planets natural resources. It also weds the issue of poverty and justice among marginalised peoples that gies hand in hand with environmental damage.

In the light of the Anthropocene, the epoch in which humanity affects the entire Planet and has ... more In the light of the Anthropocene, the epoch in which humanity affects the entire Planet and has destructive effects on ecosystems, inorganic elements, human and non-human living beings, the question of how we live in a more-than-human world and how we learn individually and collectively for a more sustainable and just future arises urgently. While there are doubtless dozens of issues in this ecological, social and ethical crisis one could take as focal point, this workshop looks at waterscapes, not only as a frame for water-related problems such as drought, pollution, the destruction of water ecosystems and the exploitation and eradication of fish and other inhabitants, but also as a community of a multitude of species (including humans) and nonorganic elements. The question arises how we co-inhabit this space, what values underlie our relationship with the water and other species, who counts as citizen and what knowledge, ethics and practices might be conducive to their flourishing. In response to the disenchantment, silencing, domination and exploitation of the world in the course of the Enlightenment, modernization, colonization and industrialization, academics, activists and artists increasingly draw on traditional and indigenous knowledge as well as on new, scientific knowledge and philosophies. They foreground multiple and multi-layered interdependencies and shared vulnerabilities of all forms of organic and inorganic life. Taking the notion of water epistemology as a metaphor for the fluidity, creativity, and relationality of (re)emerging epistemologies of thinking with and listening to the (more-than-human) Other, the contributors will share their research on knowledge, ethics, and citizenship in waterscapes with the wider interested audience. Participants will be encouraged to share their ideas, ask questions and discuss solutions with an international team of philosophers, educators, poets, scientists, as well as activists. The seminar will be held in English. Certificates of participation can be obtained on request. Seminar Wasser-Epistemologien: Transkulturelles und speziesübergreifendes Wissen, Ethik und Bürgerschaft in Wasserlandschaften Im Lichte des Anthropozäns, der Epoche, in der die Menschheit den gesamten Planeten beeinflusst und zerstörerische Auswirkungen auf Ökosysteme, anorganische Elemente, menschliche und nicht-menschliche Lebewesen hat, stellt sich dringend die Frage, wie wir in einer mehr-als-menschlichen Welt leben und wie wir individuell und kollektiv für eine nachhaltigere und gerechtere Zukunft lernen. Unter dem Begriff der Wasser-Epistemologie als Metapher für die Fluidität, Kreativität und Relationalität von (neu) entstehenden Epistemologien des Denkens mit dem (mehr-als-menschlichen) Anderen, werden die Teilnehmer*innen ihre Forschungen zu Wissen, Ethik und Bürgerschaft in Wasserlandschaften mit einem breiteren interessierten Publikum teilen. Die Teilnehmer*innen werden eingeladen, ihre Ideen einzubringen, Fragen zu stellen und Lösungen mit einem internationalen Team aus Philosophie, Ökologie, Pädagogik, Literatur und Umwelt-und Tieraktivismus zu diskutieren. Der Workshop wird in englischer Sprache abgehalten. Teilnahmebestätigungen können auf Anfrage ausgestellt werden. Delavnica Vodne epistemologije: medkulturna in čezvrstna vednost, etika in državljanstvo v vodnih pokrajinah V luči antropocena, obdobja, v katerem človeštvo vpliva na ves planet z uničujočimi učinki na ekosisteme, anorganske elemente, človeška in ne-človeška živa bitja, se nujno postavlja vprašanje, kako živeti v svetu, ki je več kot človeški, in kako se individualno in kolektivno učiti za bolj trajnostno in pravično prihodnost. Sodelujoči s prispevki, ki pojem vodne epistemologije jemljejo kot metaforo za fluidnost, ustvarjalnost in relacionalnost (ponovno) nastajajočih epistemologij razmišljanja z (več kot človeškim) Drugim in njegovega poslušanja, bodo svoje raziskave o znanju, etiki in državljanstvu v vodnih pokrajinah delili s širšo zainteresirano javnostjo. Udeleženci bodo lahko delili svoje zamisli, postavljali vprašanja in razpravljali o rešitvah z mednarodno ekipo filozofov, pedagogov, pesnikov, znanstvenikov in tudi aktivistov. Delavnica bo potekala v angleščini. Potrdila o udeležbi bodo poslana na zahtevo.

TITLE: Becoming Eco-fluent: Being with Nature The once-neon reef Bubble wrapped and bleached A... more TITLE: Becoming Eco-fluent: Being with Nature

The once-neon reef
Bubble wrapped and bleached
Asks to be seen (Hawke forthcoming 2021)

The body of the world is articulate and uncannily thoughtful (Vicki Kirby 1997, 5).

Heidegger is not concerned about the fact that pollution for example, has destroyed all animal life in the Rhine. What does concern him is that the river has been put to man’s exclusive service (Ilya Prigogine 1984, 33)

Through two themes, this paper addresses the provocation of anthropocentric recklessness that has, at least since the Industrial Revolution, regarded nature primarily as a commodity to be exploited for human commerce. Firstly, let us consider how we became so disassociated from our source (the physical environment that sustains life), that a series of global ecological disasters has called us to attention- to wake up. The will-full damage caused by the human enterprise falls uneasily on the ledger of sustainability (both cognitively and materially) and calls for a complete re-vision of how and what we think we know. And what is it that we know? What has the past taught us? Vicky Kirby (1997), among others suggests that nature knows much, and is articulate. First Nations Indigenous pedagogy and ontology has spoken this way for thousands of years. Why then do some branches of humanity still struggle to decipher signifiers beyond their immediate world and thresholds, and divide the world according to nature and culture oppositions rather than seek confluences? There are many questions. Here I aim to gesture towards conceptual and physical meeting places, where eco-fluency might thrive through a spectrum of complex entities and relations, in which all players are recognised as intelligent, and in which ‘becoming and being with’, matter? Secondly, let us consider how, in real terms, we might we now be of service to the rivers and waters of the Blue Planet (Barlow 2007), that sustain all life. How we listen in, observe needs, and act more inclusively and conscientiously, is part of the future we are creating now, and how we educate for the future, now. This discussion is critical as we stand on the precipice of even greater shifts that are already changing the face of an earth that we have bubble-wrapped in plastic.

Cultures of resistance have existed throughout time. How they manifest and are received has chang... more Cultures of resistance have existed throughout time. How they manifest and are received has changed over time. This lecture tracks resistance from the myths of Ancient Greece to the 21st century COVID-19 crisis and examines different forms of resistance as: active, passive, non-violent and violent.
Civil Disobedience forms part of the types resistance and in different countries across the world and through time and space and place, the role of civil disobedience has been understood in many different ways, and as provoked by a multitude of injustices, but also the enactment of freedom of speech.
Presented to UNIT CG 350 "Narratives of Resistance: From the Greek War of Independence to the Resilience against the Coronavirus," for the Department of Classical Studies, Boston University, [online], 18 November 2020.

Compulsory Modul 6: Universal Values - Education for Sustainable Development (990006)Guest lecture University of Innsbruck, 2020

This lecture on 'Writing Water Story' was co developed and presented with Dr Reingard Spannring a... more This lecture on 'Writing Water Story' was co developed and presented with Dr Reingard Spannring and Dr Shé Hawke for Undergraduate students at the University of Innsbruck via zoom learning platform in October 2020.
It covered issues of environmental sustainability and environmental literacy, in particular 'water literacy' (Hawke 2012). The aim of the lecture was to build capacity in students critical thinking capacity transformed into action as they learn. more about the local water courses that sustain their lives. The lecture formed part of a collaborative component between Dr Spannring and myself on a joint project on the Anthropocene, but also include learning and understanding about ecopedagogy and what that means in everyday life.for students , teachers and researchers alike.

This work is copyright protected, 2016

Invited Seminar for the Jung Society of Canberra, Australia

The planet stands on the precipice of a new paradigm that calls us to re-position our relationshi... more The planet stands on the precipice of a new paradigm that calls us to re-position our relationship with the foundational element of water, and to engage with the broader environmental challenges of the Anthropocene Epoch more productively. This seminar re-invigorates Complex Adaptive Systems Theory (CAS originally spawned by Prigogine and Stengers 1977) and sets its mechanisms to a new ecological purpose. Adding water literacy (Hawke 2014) and a biosocial (Ingold and Palsson 2013) framework enables an analysis of the connectivity between natural and social worlds and systems, not as oppositional but as mutually co-evolving. Through the specificity of the hydrological cycle and its co-relations, crosscurrents are mapped, towards planning a possible future of resilience, respect and accountability. In such a future, natures agency, field and habitus (Bourdieu 1977) might be better recognised and valued, and progress the wise stewardship of sustainable water futures.

The Eleusinian and Bacchic, and Orphic Mysteries cite water as the moist diffusion that emanated ... more The Eleusinian and Bacchic, and Orphic Mysteries cite water as the moist diffusion that emanated from the Orphic Cosmic Egg: Eukosmia. This is the first "play" of Creation in the Mysteries from which all life was spawned. Common readings of Olympian myths are imbued with a playfulness that governs the Fate of human actors; play, however, is not always funny although it is often felicitously wed to tragedy, and common myth differs somewhat from the deeper mysteries (Taylor, 1798). Feminine deities are habitually rendered obsolete or consumed by male Gods on the cosmic game board, such as Zeus’ consumption of Athena’s mother Metis. Through a reading of Aquamorphia: Falling for Water (2014), and Anderson’s (1999) uptake of Ricoeur’s (1979) mimesis: prefiguration, configuration and refiguration, this paper narrates the drama of Olympian Genesis and wisdom through deep mythic time to the polyvalent agency of current water play.

This paper covered cross-cultural transboundary inter disciplinary connections through the meetin... more This paper covered cross-cultural transboundary inter disciplinary connections through the meeting place of water. Co presenters included Bradley Moggridge - Kamilaroi Water Scientist and Western hydrologist

Country and Community, 2024

This paper recovers the work of Susan Griffin and sets it to a new purpose in the 21st century al... more This paper recovers the work of Susan Griffin and sets it to a new purpose in the 21st century along with a broader understanding of Liberation Theology and Deep Ecology

The demand for tailored climate data by different users is growing worldwide together with the aw... more The demand for tailored climate data by different users is growing worldwide together with the awareness of the challenges posed to society and the environment by climate change. The extreme weather events intensification, sea-level rise, and coastal erosion are urgent challenges to be addressed by European coastal cities. The overreaching scope of the H2020 SCORE (Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities) project is to develop a framework for the definition and uptake of integrated Ecosystem-Based Approaches (EBA) and smart digital tools by establishing a network of 10 coastal city' living labs' (CCLLs) to increase the climate resilience of European coastal cities. To achieve this, the first steps are focused on i) the identification and selection of reference datasets for the historical baseline characterization and the projections for the next decades, ii) the downscaling of climate projections in order to produce a dataset of environmental parameters with the suitable temporal and spatial resolution for the project CCLLs' application needs, and iii) the development of statistical tools for data analysis, modeling and testing to assess the occurrence of major coastal hazards and the future evolution trends of the coastline. For this purpose, open, free, and reliable climate data are needed.

Changing the Face of the Earth and its Waters Shé Mackenzie Hawke Mediterranean Institute for E... more Changing the Face of the Earth and its Waters
Shé Mackenzie Hawke
Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies (MIOS) Science and Research Centre, Koper,
(ZRS) Slovenia; she.m.hawke@zrs-kp.si
My presentation Funded by SCORE -European Commission https://score-eu-project.eu
This presentation examines the interactions between all life, water and the complex adaptive system that is planet Earth. I will address the idea that the human species must now cross-examine itself and its recklessness since the onset of the Great Acceleration of the Anthropocene (1-2) in the 1950s. Disrupting our comfort zones, obsessions, bias and unnecessary consumerism, is an ethical imperative now. It necessarily calls on economics, technology and science, philosophy and cultural studies, public policy and everyday people as expert witnesses, to come together to resolve the complex climate issues that threaten planetary care. For a ‘Green Deal’ to be possible, we must produce innovative yet realistic futures. An inter-disciplinary stock-take of both past and present practices is required. Against the back drop of the recent Slovenian Water Act Referendum (11 July 2021), I will discuss why business proposals for Slovenian dams continue to threaten our wellspring, despite the European Commission’s Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 (Section 2.2.7) committing to ‘restore 25,000 kilometres of water to a free flowing state’ (https://ec.europa.eu/info/index_en ). Why would we now work against the flow?
As an example, I will in particular present realisable, state-of-the-art sustainability measures that reduce and re-use household water. MIOS was recently funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 (LC-CLA-13-2020-2: Smart Control of the Climate Resilience of European Coastal Cities) inter-disciplinary project, to develop a water redistribution system (©SHINK2C) for bathrooms, to offset: water wastage, and the need for dams and de-salinisation. This research will enable Slovenia to merge innovative science and technology, with citizen science and uphold the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and act inclusively towards climate change mitigation that involves the public and youth as citizen scientists.
We cannot exoticize climate change as some external ‘other’ any longer. We are climate change – part of a Complex Adaptive System (CAS), (3) of life, for which we have been given the capacity to govern. Life is contingent on understanding our connections between the ground we stand on, the air we breathe and the water that falls free from the tap. This paper applies CAS, as part of a co-created and connected way towards climate change resilience using the example of rivers and their inter relationships with human culture (4-5).
(1) Steffen, W., Crutzen, P. J., & McNeill, J. R. (2007). The Anthropocene: are humans now overwhelming the great forces of nature. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 36(8), 614-621. https://doi.org/10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[614:TAAHNO]2.0.CO;2
(2) Steffen, W., Crutzen, P., Grinevald, J., & McNeill, J. (2011) The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.369842867 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0327
(3) Prigogine, I., and Stengers, I. (1984), Order Out of Chaos: Man’s new dialogue with nature, Bantam Books: New York
(4) Hawke, S. & Palsson, G. (2017). Water Futures, Biosociality, and Otherwise Agency. ANUAC 6 (1), 233-52.
(5) Spannring, R. & Hawke, S. (2021). Anthropocene challenges for youth research: understanding agency and change through complex, adaptive systems. Journal of Youth Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.1929886

Surviving the Anthropocene Symposium Paper , 2021

This symposium was co-organized by The Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies (MIOS) u... more This symposium was co-organized by The Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies (MIOS) under the Direction of Dr S M Hawke, and other institutes from the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia. Other co-organisors include The University of Innsbruck Education department directed by Dr R Spannring and the University of Iceland, Philosophy department directed by Prof S Thorgeirsdottir

Book of Abstracts : "Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture", 2021, 2021

Panel Abstract: B11 INCLUSION OF NON-HUMANS IN PEDAGOGICAL AND COLLECTIVE EXCHANGES? If nature i... more Panel Abstract:
B11 INCLUSION OF NON-HUMANS IN PEDAGOGICAL AND COLLECTIVE EXCHANGES?
If nature is not recognized as a sentient and rational creator and conveyor of knowledge, and/or a wonder and/or a dialogue partner, do we then risk continued failure in our duty of care to planetary stewardship? Or put differently: is it perilously 'ego-centric' for humans to believe they are the only species capable of pedagogical exchange-of narrativization? Could ideas like 'bewildering education' (Snaza 2018) 'decentering the human' , 'environmental literacy' , 're-newed connections with more-than-human worlds' , 're-wilding human consciousness' , and knowledge emerging from the 'natural library' (Hawke 2012) be fruitful in this regard? Or more generally: How can non-humans be included and understood in pedagogical activities, not only as objects of study, but also as agents in their own right? But how can we acquire experiences of how to share the world we live in with radical others? If for instance one thinks differently about the ontology of music, will suggestions for other procedures regarding learning, practising and performing music occur? Will we stop muting sounds not originating from humans, and free us from anthropocentric notions of "good taste"? Could also examinations of the construction of human-animal relations in educational contexts, the shortcomings of dominant anthropocentric pedagogies and the transformative opportunities offered by alternative frameworks such as ecojustice and humane education be fruitful here? Or examinations of how educational institutions are embedded in the animal industrial complex, which requires cooperation across disciplinary boundaries to transform education and schooling? "Togetherness-Vibrant Matter Collective: Modelling Possible Universes". For six months an extended neighbourhood, including some artist and researchers, established a temporary society for half a year that experimented with decentring the relationship between human, other living organisms and matter. We were asking: How can we acquire experiences of how to share the world we live in with radical others? We dreamed of, and actually were able to establish, a relationship through song with the beautiful, gloving microorganism phosphorescence. In another part of the project the Vibrant Matter Ensemble asked: If one thinks differently about the ontology of music, will suggestions for other procedures regarding learning, practising and performing music occur? Will we stop muting sounds not originating from humans, and free us from anthropocentric notions of "good taste"? The presentation will report from this attempt in a Norwegian neighbourhood to break away from established anthropocentric configurations of the sensible and possible, blurring the boundaries between art, education and activism. Some theoretical contributors to the presentation: Tony Valberg (Ph.d.) is a musician and professor in Music Pedagogy at the Institute of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Agder (UiA), Norway. Valberg, who has led a number of relational art projects, has in recent years established temporary small communities in search of an environmental awareness that allows relationships to extend beyond human intersubjectivity. Valberg is a leader of the research group Art and Social Relations. More on his latest project at https://togethernessvmc.com "A Critical Need for Environmental Literacy: Re-Wilding Human Consciousness". This paper argues for the recognition of nature as both a sentient and rational creator and conveyor of knowledge. If the concept of nature's capacities is not expanded, (or re-wilded), the human species risks continued failure in its duty of care to planetary stewardship, as the fallout from the Anthropocene already shows. It is perilously 'ego-centric' for humans to believe they are the only intelligent species capable of pedagogical exchange-of narrativization. The methodology of environmental literacy born from my earlier work on 'water literacy' (Hawke 2012) seeks to decentre the human and invite all actors into inter-species and elemental dialogue through deep listening and renewed connection with more-than-human worlds. Environmental literacy presents an opportunity to rewrite and co-create 'eco-centric' habits as the new norm, with the youngest of citizens, and through a pedagogy of entanglements in the spectrum of natural and cultural life. Re-wilding human consciousness may liberate unsustainable habits and practices and recreate space for learning from the ground upwards in the 'natural library' (Hawke 2012) that nature is. This paper addresses the anthropocentric provocations of human recklessness, and the will-full damage caused by the human enterprise, which falls uneasily on the ledger of sustainability and calls for a complete revision of how and what we think we and others know.

Conference Terrors of Injustice , 2018

"An Origin of Loss: dissolution of Divine Metis from Sacred Mysteries to Relinquishing Mother of ... more "An Origin of Loss: dissolution of Divine Metis from Sacred Mysteries to Relinquishing Mother of Athena in Common Myth" by Shé Mackenzie Hawke presented at the Terrors of Injustice Conference Utrecht 2018. Conference convened by Lenart Škof and Magdalena Gorska. Keynotes by Sigrídur Thorgeirsdottir and Morny Joy

on the panel WOMAN AND THE NON-HUMAN

Presented to the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, Canberra AUSTRALIA 13th October 2014

he Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture, Australia & New Zealand

To make sense of inheritance and connectivity within systems and communities Bourdieu proposed hi... more To make sense of inheritance and connectivity within systems and communities Bourdieu proposed his tripartite concept of habitus, field and agency. This paper attempts to re-make water (aquapoiesis) in the public imaginary by interpellating it as both field and agent in its own becoming, acted upon by other agents, whose habitus and sense of cultural, symbolic and natural capital is as various as the flows of water itself. The eco-humanities is increasingly invested in understanding water as its own entity (multiple as that entity is) as well as being part of webs of relation with humans and non-humans. Bourdieu’s concept, in association with understanding waters psychological and agential confluences is latterly taken up by the work of bio-social anthropologist Gaetano Mangiameli, who along with the intentions of this paper sets Bourdieu’s schema to a new purpose and offers a different reading of water and its attendant relations.

This paper explicates previous work on the notion of water literacy and cross cultural pedagogy a... more This paper explicates previous work on the notion of water literacy and cross cultural pedagogy and ontology. Written in collaboration with research, textual, oral and embodied knowledge the paper draws on the alliance between the Widjabul People of the Northern Rivers of Australia, and the local water authority Rous Water and how that effective and affective alliance has positively altered water management, particularly Rocky Creek and Emigrant Creek Dams. The paper also works on the notion that water knowledge is a scholarly affair but that settler descended Australians are largely illiterate in terms if Indigenous knowledge and the ‘Canon’ of which water is a primary text. The paper was visually accompanied by the artwork of Leonie Jackson with whom I have been collaborating for several years. Leonie’s painting Aquamater is the cover of my forthcoming book (2014 Interactive Press).

http://www.aal.asn.au/conference/2010/speakers/sh-mackenzie-hawke.shtml Shé Mackenzie Hawke... more http://www.aal.asn.au/conference/2010/speakers/sh-mackenzie-hawke.shtml
Shé Mackenzie Hawke

Water literary: a missing link in Darwinism recovered in eco-criticism

Dr Shé Mackenzie Hawke, The University of Sydney

This paper explores the potential application of broad water literacy sourced from Darwin’s aquatic and gendered oversights to current accounts of water re-signification through poetics and the work of Emily Potter. Just as Darwin wore gendered blinkers—in relation to aquatic environments—so too has the ‘settlement’ story of Australia often worn socio/cultural blinkers. Through a ficto-critical writing practice, this paper aims to alter the course of water in the public imagination by re-signifying its many presentations and forms as a meeting place, not just between gender and culture, but also between scientific and literary cross currents. My aim is to offer re-distributive possibilities of water knowledge that takes up Potter’s notion of water literacy across fields. The current water crisis begs us to re imagine our relationship with water and the hydrological cycle, and the knowledges that have often reduced it to mere commodity. This paper uses water as a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary tool, through which a more holistic and reverent understanding of water may be achieved.

2008 Paper Presented to the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand 9th Con... more 2008 Paper Presented to the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand 9th Conference, La Trobe University, Australia.
Panel with Arnold Zable and Angela Costi to honour the literary odyssey's of the Greek Australia Diaspora, including a homage to Dorothy Porter who died a few days prior to the conference, from Shé Hawke, and Arnold Zable's homage to writers in foreign jails through his work with PEN.

This is the poetic rendition of the paper presented at The Activating Human Rights Conference 200... more This is the poetic rendition of the paper presented at The Activating Human Rights Conference 2008. An earlier version of the poem has appeared in: Tender Muse by Hawke and van Langenberg (Picaro Press 2007).

Australasian Cultural Studies Conference, 2005

This paper was delivered on a panel with Clifton Evers and centred around our shared interests in... more This paper was delivered on a panel with Clifton Evers and centred around our shared interests in water worlds and intercultural spaces using the work of Pierre Bourdieu as a springboard. The presentation as coupled with the showing of our 7 minute documentary of the same name

University of London, 2004

This ficto-critical paper presented at the University of London, Australian Studies Centre, looks... more This ficto-critical paper presented at the University of London, Australian Studies Centre, looks at how mateship is read historically in political Australia particularly through the dismissal of Gough Whitlam. It performs a contemporary analysis with the 'order of mates' (John Pilger 1989) in a bus depot in regional NSW, where the main protagonist, a female, is not part of the 'order of mates', and never will be no matter her competence. The later novel in verse Depot Girl (2007) covered this cultural, class and gendered terrain in more detail.

Visions for Sustainability, 2023

This is a review of the sublime book recently published by Veronica Strang. It is her latest in a... more This is a review of the sublime book recently published by Veronica Strang. It is her latest in a series of scholarly works on water

World Literature Today, 2017

The lacunae in literary cultural studies of the Pacific, is here mended and woven in to the fabri... more The lacunae in literary cultural studies of the Pacific, is here mended and woven in to the fabric of the basket in Marshallese daughter – Jetñil-Kijiner's sea of poems. The poetic gendered, cultural and political genealogy she provides is at once gentle, lamenting and instructive, and harsh, factual and poignant narrating the broadest of Marshallese stories, from innocent paradise to nuclear fall out zone. The collection is bookended by basket poems, iep jaltok representing the matrilineal lineage of the poet and from which the collection gets its title. The second basket acts perhaps as a memoir or epilogue to a precarious journey, " a lineage of sand/ a reef of memory/ your womb a sustainer " (81), with directions for the next generation of weavers. Indeed the journey of the Marshallese has been precarious, suffering the pernicious radiation f US nuclear testing in the Pacific in the 1950s. " We mistook radioactive fall out for snow " (21) that lodged in " Bianca's 6 year old bones " (25) and transformed paradise into white hot sand.

Poeticanet

Review of my book Aquamorphia in Poeticanet, by Ilana Freedman,

Associazone Nazionale Universitaria Antropologi Culturali, ITALIA, Jun 14, 2014

Review of Biosocial becomings by Tim Ingold and Gisli Palsson

Australian Women's Book Review: Hecate, 2003

A review of Carolyn van Langenberg's The Teetotaller's Wake from a writer local to the subject ar... more A review of Carolyn van Langenberg's The Teetotaller's Wake from a writer local to the subject area of the book, that is, The Northern Rivers of NSW, Australia in Australian Women's Book Review pp37-38.

ISSN: 1033 9434

Paralele, 2022

A collection of Migrant Poems written by migrants living in Slovenia during the period of the Cov... more A collection of Migrant Poems written by migrants living in Slovenia during the period of the Covid 19 pandemic , as part of the Neighbour of Your Shore project supported by JSKD and Mentor.

Poems included are about nature

Eremos www.eremos.org.au , 2022

This small collection of poems is part of a bigger collection on Trees and Bees. Attached to thes... more This small collection of poems is part of a bigger collection on Trees and Bees. Attached to these poems is the nuance of grief for life differently lived and understood, either through death, farewell or disregard.

I Wynyard Ghost

Bent with weather and age
its wisdom branches witness to civilization
marked for demolition (or crucifixion) –
the sign of the pink cross.
Euthanasia is too kind a word.
Before the chainsaw sapped it,
bled its storied bark
it sighed and bowed – winded –
felled on its own terms
gapping the human axe.
Tactical ecological suicide. (p.10)

NEIGHBOUR OF YOUR COAST/WHO IS THE NEIGHBOUR OF YOUR SHORE, 2020

SOSED TVOJEGA BREGA 2020 42. državno srečanje avtorjev in avtoric, ki pišejo v maternih jezikih J... more SOSED TVOJEGA BREGA 2020 42. državno srečanje avtorjev in avtoric, ki pišejo v maternih jezikih Javni sklad Republike Slovenije za kulturne dejavnosti v sodelovanju z Območno izpostavo Metlika vabi na državo srečanje avtorjev in avtoric, ki pišejo v maternih jezikih v nedeljo, 30. avgusta 2020, ob 18.30, v Metliko, na Metliški grad, Trg svobode 4. Udeležba je možna le ob predhodni najavi in ob preventivnih ukrepih NIJZ.

NEDELJA, 30. AVGUST 2020, METLIKA
Metliški grad, Trg svobode 4
9.30-10.30 10.30-13.00 14.30-17.00 18.30
Ko predolgo hodiš sam, jutranja branja v jezikih sveta.
Sodelujejo
Od avtobiografije do tretjeosebnega pripovedovalca, prozna delavnica s pisateljem Zoranom Kneževićem.
Prvotno ali drugotno besedilo, pesniška delavnica s pesnico in urednico, mag. Ano Porenta.
SEM SVET, zaključna prireditev z branjem besedil izbranih avtorjev ter podelitev priznanj. Predstavitev revije Paralele 23/2020. Glasba: Kitarski trio Kunič. Moderatorka: Klavdija Kotar.

Mohamad Abdul al Munem, Emilija Angelova, Milan Aničić, Ismet Bekrić, Sonja Cekova Stojanoska, Miloš Djonović, Jure Drljepan, Marie-Hélène Estéoule-Exel, Josip Fabina, Djellza Gashi, Sara Gulam, Zdravko Kokanović Koki, Tjaša Kos, Tamara Kovačević, Marko Krezić, Marina Kružić Zekić, Shé Mackenzie Hawke, Franjo Magaš, Dragana Marošević, Štefanija Mesarić, Dragan Mitić, Dragan Mučibabić, Maja Mustedanagić, Tanja Ocelić, Željko Perović, Đorđo Radović, Srđan Radović, Senada Smajić, Veronika Stojanoska, Ljuba Šalinger, Katica Špiranec, Francisco Tomsich, Velimir Turk, Vladimir Vekić, Ramiz Velagić, Snježana Vračar Mihelač

NEIGHBOUR OF YOUR COAST/WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOUR
42nd Slovenian National Meeting of authors writing in their mother tongue

The Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Cultural Activities, in cooperation with the Metlika Regional Branch, invites a meeting of authors to the country
and authors who write in their mother tongues
on Sunday, August 30, 2020, at 6:30 p.m.,
to Metlika, to Metlika Castle, Trg svobode 4.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2020, METLIKA
Metlika Castle, Trg svobode 4
9.30-10.30 10.30-13.00 14.30-17.00 18.30
When you walk alone for too long, morning readings in the languages of the world.
They cooperate
From an autobiography to a third-person narrator, a prose workshop with the writer Zoran Knežević.
Original or secondary text, poetry workshop with poet and editor, mag. Yes Porenta.
I AM THE WORLD, a closing event with the reading of texts by selected authors and the awarding of prizes. Presentation of the journal Parallels 23/2020. Music: Guitar trio Rabbit. Moderator: Klavdija Kotar.

Authors include:
Mohamad Abdul al Munem, Emilija Angelova, Milan Aničić, Ismet Bekrić, Sonja Cekova Stojanoska, Miloš Djonović, Jure Drljepan, Marie-Hélène Estéoule-Exel, Josip Fabina, Djellza Gashi, Sara Gulam, Zdravko Kokanović Koki, Tjaša Kos, Tamara Kovačević, Marko Krezić, Marina Kružić Zekić, Shé Mackenzie Hawke, Franjo Magaš, Dragana Marošević, Štefanija Mesarić, Dragan Mitić, Dragan Mučibabić, Maja Mustedanagić, Tanja Ocelić, Željko Perović, Đorđo Radović, Srđan Radović, Senada Smajić, Veronika Stojanoska, Ljuba Šalinger, Katica Špiranec, Francisco Tomsich, Velimir Turk, Vladimir Vekić, Ramiz Velagić, Snježana Vračar Mihelač

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 2016

The economics of contemporary water is discussed in this paper in line with political ecology. It... more The economics of contemporary water is discussed in this paper in line with political ecology. It is a poetic extract of a larger body of work called Aquamorphia: falling for Water (Interactive Press 2014, Carindale)

Meniscus, 2015

A short to-the-point peak hour handling poem from a female perspective

Levure Littéraire Accueil » Numéro 14 , 2015

Eukosmia is an excerpt of a genesis poem of Ancient Greek Mysteries from the book Aquamorphia IS... more Eukosmia is an excerpt of a genesis poem of Ancient Greek Mysteries from the book Aquamorphia

ISSN 2268-9915

Dodecahedron: Poets Union Anthology , 2010

ISBN: 978-0-9804323-1-2 Written on a bus on the way to Delphi to see the Omphalos. As an ex b... more ISBN: 978-0-9804323-1-2

Written on a bus on the way to Delphi to see the Omphalos.
As an ex bus driver, I observed the love the driver had for his material machine. Joined at the hip as I was back in the 80s and 90s when I drove buses to put myself through Uni

Body of Work: Lost and Found, 2004

Do I confine you to lines and words enclosed by margins, stops and commas, or give you space t... more Do I confine you to lines and words
enclosed by margins, stops and commas,
or give you space
to slip through the gaps,
and allow my curiosity
to move into your story
which personifies your absence
in the presence of the standard page ?...

Coastlines 3: An Anthology of Writing from Southern Cross University eds: Janie Conway-Herron; Rita de Heer; Kim Hews; Lainie Jones; Gael Lewis; Nick Mattingly; Katie Muldowney; Wendy Perry; Nikolai Tomé & Daniel Watson) ISBN )-646-42529-3, 2003

Haiku selection : pregnant pause of dawn invokes longer light of spring end of graveyard sh... more Haiku selection :

pregnant pause of dawn
invokes longer light of spring
end of graveyard shift

on mirror flat sea
opal dragonflies hover
winging in winter

Coastlines 2: new writing from southern cross, 2001

Poetry from Southern Cross University Writing Programs (If anyone still has a copy of this vol... more Poetry from Southern Cross University Writing Programs

(If anyone still has a copy of this volume I would love to receive it. In my many house moves I simply cannot find it.)

Just off Message, 2017

Poem about the circularity of water for a different world views This poem also appears in Aquamo... more Poem about the circularity of water for a different world views
This poem also appears in Aquamorphia: Falling for Water (2014 IP press Carindale). For the full poem you can access it here

Picaro Press, 2008

Excerpts from the book see PDF. Shortlisted for the prestigious Colin Roderick Award for Liter... more Excerpts from the book see PDF.

Shortlisted for the prestigious Colin Roderick Award for Literature and nominated for the Miles Franklin Award. A verse novel in the spirit of Dorothy Porter's Monkeys Mask. Set against the regional landscape of NE Australia and the landscape of the Trojan Wars. A millenial intersection of betrayal, love and war, philosophy, history and ethics.

Picaro Press, 2007

Elegies for friends, lovers and those who have become strangers, these are poems of lost opportun... more Elegies for friends, lovers and those who have become strangers, these are poems of lost opportunities from which something else is wrested, giving rise to a reinvention of the lyric and its rediscovery in the small ironies of the present. Anna Gibbs (UWS)

Driving Desire After an eternity of Olympic bus run No. 7 and a lecture on ethics and ethnic... more Driving Desire

After an eternity of Olympic bus run No. 7
and a lecture on ethics and ethnicity
we hit the pub.
It's karaoke in full swing
a bunch of half-cut regionals
pissing on and singing out of tune
as if nothing rurally matters ...
(AN excerpt)

paralele, 2022

Shé Hawke - Finalist for the Slovenian Council of the Arts (JSKD) neighbour of your Shore 2021-22... more Shé Hawke - Finalist for the Slovenian Council of the Arts (JSKD) neighbour of your Shore 2021-22 pp. 16-18
Poems:

1.Breathing with Horses

" I sniff you like a bee sniffs pollen,
or a mother her newborn ..."

2.Being with Trees

" You have made your home here - red pine - bor
where children play and swing
beneath your smiling arms.
Did the wind form you
in such a curve?
Or was it your cosmic DNA,
part of a vaster organism of life."

Selected Poems include: Winded Sežana Breath of Trees Poets Lament 1.SEŽANA Your ... more Selected Poems include:
Winded
Sežana
Breath of Trees
Poets Lament

1.SEŽANA
Your poems did reach me Srečko,
flew my Australian self
to streets where your words
are painted on the foot path
by a different resistance.
Everything here
bears your name,
your face.
Don’t you know!

SEŽANA
Tvoje pesmi so me dosegle, Srečko,
in odnesle moj avstralski jaz
na ulice, kjer je tvoje besede
zarisal na pločnike
drugačen upor.
Vse tukaj
nosi tvoje ime,
tvoj obraz.
Mar ne veš?

Depot Girl short-listed for the prestigious Colin Roderick Award for Australian Literature

Byron Bay Writers Festival, 2004

Byron Bay Writers Festival Poetry Prize 2004 Winner "Driving Desire" By Shé Hawke

This is a selection of international media and podcasts to reflect the environmental and climate ... more This is a selection of international media and podcasts to reflect the environmental and climate change mitigation work I have been doing for the last few years. At times it includes my co-workers and colleagues Tamara Lah, Salem Gharbia, Irina Cavaion, Cecil Meulenberg, Peter Kumer, and Blaž Lenarčič

RTVSLO https://www.rtvslo.si/radio/podkasti/morjeinmi/173250778/174890268, 2022

Climate change is no longer knocking on our door, it is our new reality. For example, the largest... more Climate change is no longer knocking on our door, it is our new reality. For example, the largest fire in the history of our country reminds us of this. In Slovenian Istria, there is a shortage of drinking water at the height of the tourist season. How did hoteliers react? How are guests encouraged to save? What improvements are being made to reduce its consumption? How do passenger ships handle drinking water? We all have to think about less water consumption. Droughts, with a lack of water, and fires will alternate cyclically with floods, predicts Dr. She Mackenzie Hawke, Australian scientist and former employee of the Koper Scientific Research Center (Director of the Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies MIOS 2019-2021). She and her colleagues designed a European pilot project for the reuse of drinking water for Piran. The show was prepared by Lea Širok.

Podnebne spremembe ne trkajo več na naša vrata, so naša nova realnost. Na to nas denimo opozarja največji požar v zgodovini naše države. V slovenski Istri pa na višku turistične sezone primanjkuje pitne vode. Kako so se odzvali hotelirji? Kako goste spodbujajo k varčevanju? Kakšne izboljšave za zmanjšanje njene porabe pripravljajo? Kako s pitno vodo ravnajo potniške ladje? O manjši porabi vode moramo razmišljati vsi. Suše, s pomanjkanjem vode, in požari se bodo ciklično izmenjevali s poplavami, napoveduje dr. She Mackenzie Hawke, avstralska znanstvenica in nekdanja sodelavka koprskega Znanstvenega raziskovalnega središča. Za Piran je s kolegi zasnovala evropski pilotni projekt vnovične uporabe pitne vode. Oddajo je pripravila Lea Širok.

Skálholt, Iceland

This interdisciplinary symposium is intended to bring together innovative g/local expertise in ph... more This interdisciplinary symposium is intended to bring together innovative g/local expertise in philosophy and pedagogy, ecofeminism, policy, theology, biosocial cultural studies and theories and practices of embodied critical thinking, to configure equitable and realistic ways for life on earth to survive the Anthropocene. Our focus is shared with the natural environment, understood as a sentient partner with inherent values beyond purely commodification and economic frameworks. In recognising the natural environment as an agent in its own becoming, the symposium aims to 'breath with nature', as a companion. We further aim to better understand and work towards resolving the perceived clash between nature, culture, ethics and policy, through new conceptual thinking and engagement that champions an elemental philosophy of connectivity and respect. Developing 'elemental literacy' to transpose current understandings of: what/how nature is, how it is acted upon, and how it acts upon, constitutes a primary focus for this symposium that seeks to imagine and dynamically participate in: new, complex and adaptive possibilities, environmental management provocations and reforms, and philosophical analyses of restorative ecological justice pathways, both conceptually and practically. Intelligent (informed, perceptive/interoceptive) partnership with the natural and more-than-human world (broadly understood), and human culture, within the frameworks of policy decision-making, is crucial for a connected and ethical way forward for life on planet earth. The climate change crisis increasingly demonstrates that we stand at the precipice of change. We are changing the face of the earth. How humans continue to do that change, matters in this Anthropocene crisis that has been largely produced by human recklessness. Our aim and hope is to restore our biosocial relationships and elemental sensibilities, and our forgotten ontologico-environmental-material being.

Consortium Meeting Sligo, 2022

PIRAN Coastal City Living Lab (CCLL) is located on the Slovenian coast in the southwest of the co... more PIRAN Coastal City Living Lab (CCLL) is located on the Slovenian coast in the southwest of the country. The town of Piran has roughly 3,800 inhabitants. The population of the entire municipality of Piran that extends into the hinterland is 18,500. Since it is located right next to Mediterranean Sea, the town is popular among tourists and many apartments are owned by non-permanent residents (from other parts of Slovenia or abroad) and the town population substantially differs between off season in winter and high season in summer. Piran, known as "the city of salt", is a relatively small town with a rich cross-cultural history along the Adriatic coast. For more than 500 years Piran was part of the Republic of Venice, which is pronounced in the town´s architecture. The city's coastal position in combination with its cultural heritage are the main attraction for tourism.

Hawke, Meulenberg and Kumer

This article maps the confluence of biosocial relations through the agential networks of water. I... more This article maps the confluence of biosocial relations through the agential networks of water. In the language of the environmental humanities and social sciences, such relations and networks are biosocial and sacralised (Meloni, Williams, and Martin 2016; Mangiameli 2013). The self-organisation of aquatic environments in these relations towards humans is engaged in an ongoing process of entanglement and adaptation in parallel with human understandings and approaches to water. This article imagines new and conscientious behaviour that might treat the ubiquitous river more gently, against the tensions and provocations of the Anthropocene Epoch. It argues for the development of fresh sustainability logic; a hydro-logic that cultivates connectivity, adaptive capacity, and broader water values that exist beyond the containment of the commodification paradigm, (that are particularly evident among First Nations peoples). This logic necessarily includes a reconsideration of economic, ecol...