How Indigenous ideas about non-linear time can help us navigate ecological crises
- Written by Philip McKibbin, PhD Candidate, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney
Noel Nesme/Pexels, CC BYIt is common to think of time as moving in only one direction – from point A, through point B, to point C.
However, many Indigenous peoples – including Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand – experience time non-linearly.
Rather than picturing time as a straight line, we imagine it as...





