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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 351–370.
Published: 01 July 2024
... to critically address what Mark Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” to glimpse the persistence of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives, and to acknowledge occluded forms of environmental agency. The list expresses both dislike of Australian water’s unknowability and disdain for those writers who insist...
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 3. 13 C depletion in Australian eucalypts from 1800. © David S. Ellsworth. More
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Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 1. A young seal on an Australian cattle farm. Photograph courtesy of Stacey Lee More
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Paul G. Keil Abstract Domesticated pigs ( Sus scrofa ) were introduced as livestock in Australia by European settlers, and now a large population is living wild. Rather than interrogate the settler pig as co-colonizer and destroyer of Australian ecologies, this article employs Deborah Bird Rose’s...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Lesley Instone; Affrica Taylor Abstract Modes of thinking matter. In this article we engage with the figure of the Anthropocene as the impetus for rethinking the messy environmental legacies of Australian settler colonialism that we have inherited. We do this rethinking in a small rural valley...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 162–180.
Published: 01 July 2023
... in a conjectural future, but a critical expansion of its transitive acts of worlding. This is made feasible by its insistence on upholding an Indigenous Australian ontological reality as the structuring provision for its narratives—one that has long stressed its dissonance from dominant Western genres of thinking...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 May 2013
... her work into dialogue with some of my Australian Aboriginal teachers. More specifically, I focus on developing an enlarged account of active listening, considering it as the work participants engage in as they inter-act with other sentient creatures. I take a country or place based perspective...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 302–323.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... The challenge is not to focus on the “meaning” or intention of nonhuman artworks but to study their disruptive, and exciting, forces. The third part of the essay is a case study of an Australian songbird, the Albert’s lyrebird, whose remarkable performance Cooke reads in terms of an ethological poetics...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 May 2014
... theory of “shadow” or “denied” places (Plumwood, 2008), the author introduces Within Our Reach: A Symphony of the Port River Soundscapes by anti-elitist South Australian composer Chester Schultz ( b. 1945). Inspired by the tradition of R. Murray Schafer's performances for outdoor sites, Schultz...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 267–284.
Published: 01 May 2020
... learn to intervene with the soil profile more sensitively. This article focuses on the concept of soil integrity and its significance for farmers’ ethical relationship to soils in everyday practice, using the case study of pasture cropping, an Australian form of agriculture that extends no-till methods...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... The idea that a never-before-witnessed event is unprecedented calls into question the shallow temporal frames through which deep time environmental phenomena are understood in Australian settler culture and offers an insight into often unnoticed ways in which contemporary society struggles...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
... imagination with lack of disease. Edward Evans, second in command of Robert F. Scott’s ill-fated South Polar expedition, reported from Antarctica in 1912 that “the great advantage of this place is that one never gets ill. . . . No colds, chills, or other little ailments trouble us.” 7 Australian explorer...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the only birds we saw or heard. In 2004 it took great imagination to see this place as a biodiversity reserve. To know a place through swimming is very different from walking. Seasons in this place confound even such basic categories as ‘land’ and ‘water’. The Australian arid zone is the most variable...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2013
....” 30 Dominic Lestel, “The Posture of Human Exception,” Australian Humanities Review 5 (2011). 31 T. Cerulli, “Hunting like a Vegetarian,” in N. Kowalsky, Hunting: Philosophy for Everyone (West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2010). 32 S. Teitelbaum and T. Beckley, “Harvested, Hunted...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 283–286.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., “Connectivity,” Australian Humanities Review 45, November (2008). See also, Tom Griffiths, “The Ecological Humanities and An Environmentally Sustainable Australia,” Australian Humanities Review 43, December (2007). 11 Original emphasis. Katrina Saltzman, Lesley Head, and Marie Stenseke, “Do Cows...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 287–290.
Published: 01 May 2014
... a Forest? Cultural Debates About Vegetation Change in Australia,” Australian Journal of Botany 50, no. 4 (2002): 382. 7 Trebbe Johnson, “Gaze Even Here,” Orion (2012). 8 Ibid . 9 Maria Tumarkin, “This Narrated Life,” Griffith REVIEW 44: Cultural Solutions (2014). 10...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 113–131.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to group survival and identity from one generation to the next, Aboriginal Australian societies have preserved memories for millennia, including from the period when Australia was affected by postglacial sea level rise, which ended here about seven thousand years ago. Most of the associated twenty-three...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 167–170.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., Australian Aboriginal cultures are not existentialist in this way. In an obvious manner, most Australian languages, like many other languages of the world, are marked by the absence of the copula (the verb “to be”). Being is not the question, making Hamlet’s speech very difficult to translate. Belonging...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the Vietnamese people of food and eliminating vegetation concealing soldiers. 32 When Vietnamese refugees fled to Australia during the war, many settled in urban areas near Homebush Bay. During the 1980s and 1990s Homebush became a shadow place for white upper-class Australians whose geopolitical adventures...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 307–311.
Published: 01 May 2014
... an interpretation plan for riverside heritage trails, coordinated by Susan Broomhall and Gina Pickering as part of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in partnership with the National Trust of Australia. Rivers of Emotion, accessed 22 October 2014, http...
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