People and Places of Nature and Culture

by Giblett, Rod

• ISBN13: 9781841504018
• ISBN10: 1841504017
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

This book highlights the importance of developing a better relationship between humans and earth, people and place, culture and nature, in order to achieve environmental stability in the age of climate change. It examines the current concept of environment, which implies separation between a subject and its environs and suggests that humans have a relationship of mastery over the earth. It also explores how discourses of nature, such as natural history, ecology and political economy, re-enforce this idea of mastery. Through looking at how nature is viewed in Australian Aboriginal Country, this book offers a new way of looking at nature that will change the relationship between human and earth.

Author Biography

Rod Giblett is Associate Professor in the School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. He is also a local conservationist of the internationally important wetland near where he lives. He has published an oral and natural history of the area and has recently completed a book of environmental philosophy and nature writing about it.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 7
Preface: From Sustainability to Symbiosis	p. 9
Cultural Nature	p. 13
The Nature of Natures and the Cultures of Natures	p. 19
Is the Public Sphere to the Biosphere as Culture is to Nature (as Male is to Female)?	p. 39
Landscape Aesthetics	p. 57
Nature's Fairest Forms: Aesthetics of Nature	p. 61
Pleasing Prospects Revista'd: The Gentleman's Park Estate	p. 77
Colonial Country	p. 95
Home in the Wilds: Wild(er)ness as a Cultural Category	p. 99
Riding Roughshod Over It: Mateship Against the Bush	p. 117
National Parklands	p. 135
Nature Sanctuarized: 'Our' National Parks as Modern Cathedrals	p. 139
Sites and Rights of Enjoyment: Nature and Native Title in National Parks	p. 157
Industrial Land Use	p. 177
Eating Earth: Mining and Gluttony	p. 181
Kings in Kimberley Watercourses and Wetlands: Sadism and Pastoralism	p. 199
Land Symbiotics	p. 217
'We are the Land Ourselves': Aboriginal Country is a Cultural Landscape	p. 211
Home is Here: Livelihood, Bioregion and Symbiosis	p. 237
References	p. 259
Index	p. 275
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