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dc.contributor.advisorHeneise, Michael
dc.contributor.authorGeerling, Anna Ziya
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-05T08:47:41Z
dc.date.available2024-03-05T08:47:41Z
dc.date.issued2023-11-01en
dc.description.abstractIn the quest for glocal solutions to glocal ecological breakdown, in which sustainability and biodiversity conservation have become powerful concepts at an international level, the causes of the ecological crises must be understood by their socio-economic ontological roots. Today, international fora increasingly recognise the contribution of Indigenous Peoples in safeguarding biodiversity, and attempt to embrace a culturally diverse, inclusive approach to ‘nature’ conservation. Two biodiversity hotspots that are at once notably rich in cultural diversity, we find converging around the forested slopes inhabited by the Nagas across the Indo-Myanmar border and at the foot of the Eastern Himalayas. As part of a decolonial quest for epistemic diversity, and out of a critique on the globalised ideals of ‘modernity’ and the ‘Western’ science hegemony with its entrenched human-nature divide, alternative ways to understand and relate with the ‘more-than-human’ world are sought as philosophical ground for sustainability co-existence relations, that integrate human livelihood practices with biodiversity conservation. Considering the relations and values found in Tenyimia Naga cosmology as encountered through the contemporary literary storytelling of Naga author Easterine Kire, entailing kinship relations, reverence and fear for spirit landowners, and therianthropic soul-travel to the embodiment of wild tigers, Kire’s literary cultural heritage storytelling is explored as socio-ecological pedagogy. Though based on a recognition of more-than-human subjecthood, agency and kinship, traditionally giving rise to complex systems of taboos, her books furthermore detail aspects of cultural change, through colonisation, Christianity and missionary schools’ education, and as such avoid simplistic traditional vs. modern discourse. Kire’s literature is thereby presented as a potent narrative site of cultural (re)construction, and cultural heritage revitalisation amidst a context of ‘Western’ science dominance in the socio-ecological realm. As such I locate this research within the Indigenous research paradigm and environmental humanities, interlinking the study of literature, cosmology and spirituality, pedagogy and ecological ethics and management practices. Besides text analysis of Kire’s books, the thesis builds on a theoretical literature review, as well as dialogical interviews with Kire and few other local actors that shed light on contextual layers, and the paradoxes of heritage continuities through change, in conservation efforts today.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/33108
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universitetno
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDIND-3904
dc.subjectIndigenous Studiesen_US
dc.subjectDecolonisationen_US
dc.subjectEco-Philosophyen_US
dc.subjectBiocultural Diversityen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental Educationen_US
dc.subjectStorytelling Pedagogyen_US
dc.subjectRelational Epistemologyen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous Ecological Knowledge ( IEK )en_US
dc.subjectCommunity Conservationen_US
dc.subjectSocio-Ecological Pedagogyen_US
dc.subjectMore-than-Human Worlden_US
dc.subjectEcological Crisesen_US
dc.subjectNorth East Indiaen_US
dc.subjectNagalanden_US
dc.subjectSpiritual Ecologyen_US
dc.subjectTherianthropyen_US
dc.subjectTabooen_US
dc.subjectWestern Sciencesen_US
dc.subjectEasterine Kireen_US
dc.subjectFolktalesen_US
dc.subjectHunting Ethicsen_US
dc.subjectNagaen_US
dc.subjectRestoryationen_US
dc.titleBiocultural Storytelling Pedagogy in Indigenous Nagaland: The Relational Worlds of Easterine Kire’s Novelsen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveno
dc.typeMaster thesisen


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