Reimagining Conservation through Indigenous Remembering and Revitalisation

Drawing on long-term research and kinship ties with Dayak and Bidayuh communities in Malaysian Borneo, June Rubis explores in her forthcoming article how acts of remembering, ritual revitalisation, and concealment serve not only as resistance, but as grounded forms of governance, survivance, and ecological care. It offers a political ecology shaped by ceremony, refusal, and the enduring relational ethics between people, land, and more-than-human kin. Conservation, in this vision, is not a project to be implemented, but a responsibility continuously renewed. 

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