A NUDGELBAH

 

The concept of a 'nudgelbah' came about  in the course of research at Southern Cross University in Lismore as a consequence of the interrogation of the cognitive ownerships attached to a 'places' and their 'placedness'. 

It was envisaged that there was a need for an entity to promote and facilitate the multifaceted cognitive ownerships and interests invested in places beyond Western institutionalised understandings of places and their 'freehold ownership'. Ownership is ever likely to be a contested idea but the shared ownerships and interests in places is understood but not so well in Eurocentric Western mindsets where places (my/our place) are typically seen as 'property' and 'ownable' by individuals, groups and/or collectively, or in a colonial sense 'by the crown'. 

It is also the case anthropologically within say FIRSTnation cultural mindsets albeit with a myriad of cultural sensibilities and sensitivities attached to the notion of 'ownership'.

Initially it was envisaged that an 'institute' might be established to undertake the task of facilitating a change in the understandings attached to 'ownership'. Rather quickly that vision proved to be contentious and especially so as it was seen as some kind of threat to the status quo. So, it turned out that the NUDGELBAH INSTITUTE transmogrified into a 'nudgelbah' – a word randomly constructed from a set of syllables drawn from 'the ether' by chance that is a noun but not a proper noun and that is to do with 'being and doing'......CLICK HERE TO READ MORE