Helen Verran

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at science, mathematics, and logic come to life in Yoruba primary school and reveal that in contrast to the one-to-many model found in Western number systems, Yoruba thinking operates by figuring things as wholes and their parts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at science, mathematics, and logic come to life in Yoruba primary school and reveal that in contrast to the one-to-many model found in Western number systems, Yoruba thinking operates by figuring things as wholes and their parts.

Abstract: I juxtapose a story of Aboriginal landowners demonstrating their firing strategies with a story of environmental scientists elaborating their regimes of burning. The firings are profoundly different, and maintaining those differences is crucial for both Aborigines and scientists. Yet it is also important for both these groups to develop links between the forms of firing. I argue for understanding both firing regimes as expressions of collective memory which embed evaluative witness. This sameness enables modest yet sufficient connection. Acknowledging this translating form of ‘sameness’ would have scientists and Aborigines engaging an alternative form of generalizing, promoting a transformative moment in both knowledge traditions. This alternative form of generalizing embeds a politics different from the politics embedded in orthodox scientific and Yolngu forms of generalizing. I claim the tension made in articulating these alternative forms of generalizing as a ‘postcolonial moment’.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors re-imagined land ownership in Australia, and proposed a land ownership model based on postcolonial studies, which is similar to the one presented here.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the enumeration of Australia's water resources as both a form of audit and marketing and propose that a scientific enumeration utilizes the relation one/many while an economic enumeration utilizing the relation whole/parts.