Country Calls: A Creative Practice of Deep Time Walking in Darug Country. (June 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Somerville, Margaret J.
• Other Names: Harris Daniel guest-editor.; Rousell David guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 28:Number 5(2022)
• Page Start: 448
• Page End: 464
• Publication Date: 2022-06
• Subjects: Country's posthuman creativities -- deep time -- landscape -- trees -- flowers -- leaves, birds -- insects -- rocks; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/10778004211064940
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This article presents my personal story, as a non-Indigenous settler woman, of walking along a ridge close to my home at the foot of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, after the fires of 2019 to 2020. In this article, I want to invite the reader into my love of this country through sharing my record of this walking over a 12-month seasonal cycle. Every walk presented me with new understandings of this Country where I live, which I already knew as Darug Country, having explored the nature of this country in collaboration with my Darug friends Jacinta and Leanne Tobin.