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Enabling social innovation through narratives of culture , epistemology and resurgence

Enabling social innovation through narratives of culture , epistemology and resurgence. Lewis Williams, Ngai Te Rangi Associate Professor, University of Southern Queensland & Founding Director KIN http://kinincommon.com. Enabling social innovation through narratives of

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Enabling social innovation through narratives of culture , epistemology and resurgence

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  1. Enabling social innovation through narratives of culture, epistemology and resurgence Lewis Williams, Ngai TeRangi Associate Professor, University of Southern Queensland & Founding Director KIN http://kinincommon.com

  2. Enabling social innovation through narratives of culture, epistemology and resurgence Part One: Concepts , Theory and critical application (use of Ceremony as an example).

  3. Ceremony of Implanting the Mauri – an ancient socio-ecoloGical innovation When Maori first came to aotearoa, they performed the ancient ceremony of implanting the mauri (life force energy) of their people into the land. It was a ceremony of implanting the life force from where they had come and connecting and attuning to the sacred rhythms of the new land. Mauao, Tupuna (ancestor) and Maugna (Mountain) of Ngai TeRangi, NgaitiRanginui and NgatiPukenga, Tauranga moana, Aotearoa, New Zealand shown in this picture. Chief TamateaArikinui, of what later became the Ngaitiranginui tribe performed this ceremony on Mauao on arrival on the Takatimuwaka (Canoe) from Hawaiiki.

  4. Culture The invisible glue that holds groups together - shared worldviews, conventions, norms - expressed through actions, speech…… We increasingly hear about cultures of social innovation……….HOWEVER…..

  5. Ontology and Epistemology Definitions……. How we know and perceive… Alive and Animate? Or just ‘matter’. Carnarvon gorge, Australia. • Ontology: beliefs about the nature of reality • Epistemology: our relationship to knowing the world, - informed by ontology

  6. Social Innovations are narratives of epistemology • Innovations are informed by culture. • Cultural narratives, practices and artefacts are shaped by worldviews – ontologies and epistemologies Therefore, underneath any innovation lies an epistemology WhareTupuna (ancestral house). Maori Social Innovationon arrival in Aotearoa.

  7. Social innovation: an epistemological critique Rooted implicitly in • Western style science – rational empiricism • Techno-rationalism • Contracted experience of reality Blind to own epistemologies Caught in neo-colonial paradigm siloed

  8. Socio-ecological innovation (SEI) • Socio-ecological innovation: the harmonious co-evolution of human and ecological systems ………..achieved through introducing new processes or programs which profoundly change existing dynamics of power- culture & power-knowledge; and resulting resource and authority flows within human-ecological systems. (Adapted from Westley and Antadze definition of Social Innovation, 2010, 2).

  9. indigenous Epistemologies and Life-world • Interconnectedness of life • Life force energy, even so called inanimate objects • Reciprocity • Metaphysical underpinnings of reality Life-world - involves human beings, animals, plants, the natural environment and the metaphysical world of visions and dreams” (Fixico, 2003, p. 2). New Science (Elizabeth Lange 2012). Turtle Totem, Gummingurru Ceremonial site, South west Queensland, Australia.

  10. Accelerating Social Innovation through Ceremony (click link below) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNsTz0PUnI Paul Lacerte, Social Innovator & Executive Director, BCAAFC, Canada, shares his views

  11. Ceremony, epistemology and accelerating social innovation Awakening the spirit through ceremony • Ceremony awakens the symbolic, metaphysical & relational – a means of opening the spirit to innovation through connectedness • Western Atomistic Science & conventional innovation might think of it as ‘non-sense’ • However the ‘New Science’ and Native science provide us with an Scientific framework for understanding this ( see Lange, 2012, Broadhead and Howard, 2011).

  12. Measuring Ceremony • Confronting modernist hegemonic conceptualizations of validity“(Anderson 2000: 4), • Radical Empiricism”: Emphasis of systematic observation giving equal ontological priority to inner subjective and outer external experiences.Metzner’s (2005) • ‘Triangulation of meaning,’ which incorporates ways of knowing through body, mind, and spirit,MelaniMeyers’s (2003)

  13. References • Anderson, R. 2000. Intuitive inquiry: interpreting objective and subjective data. Re-Vision: Journal of Consciousness and Transformation,22(4), 31-39. • Broadhead, L. and Howard, S. (2011). Deepening the debate over ‘Sustainable Science’: Indigenous perspectives as a guide on the journey. Sustainable Development,19 (5), 301-311. • Corntassel, J. (2012). Re-envisioning resurgence: Indigenous pathways to decolonization and sustainable self-determination. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, Vol 1(1), 86-101. • Fixco, D. (2003). The American Indian Mind in a Linear World. New York: Routledge. • Lange, E. (2012). Transforming transformative learning through sustainability and the new science. In E.W. Taylor, P. Cranston, and Associates (Eds.), The handbook of transformative learning (pp. 195-211). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. • Martin, K. (2003). Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being and Ways of Doing: a theoretical framework and methods for Indigenous re-search and Indigenist research…Voicing Dissent, New Talents 21C: Next Generation Australian Studies. Journal of Australian Studies, 76, pp.203-214. http://kinincommon.com

  14. References • Metzner, R. 2005. Expanding Consciousness in a Living Systems Universe. [Online] Available at: www.greenearthfound.org/write/expanding.html [accessed: 21 March 2009]. • Meyers, M. 2003. Hawaiian hermeneutics and the triangulation of meaning: gross, subtle, casual. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 27(2), 249-255. • Rose, D. and Robin, L. 2004. The ecological humanities in action: an invitation. [Online] Australian Humanities Review, available at: www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-April-2004/rose.html • Westley, F. and Antadze, N. (2009). Making a Difference: Strategies for Scaling Social Innovation for Greater Impact. Social Innovation Generation, University of Waterloo, Canada. • Williams, L., Roberts, R. and McIntosh, A. (2012). Human Ecology: A pedagogy of hope? Introduction. Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches. Williams, L., Roberts, R. and McIntosh, A. (eds), pp.1-11. Ashgate Publishing Group: U.K. • Williams, L. and Hall, L. (2014). Women, migration and well-being: Building epistemological resilience through ontologies of wholeness and relationship. Global Change, Peace and Security,Vol 26 (2), 1-11. http://kinincommon.com

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