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Living with the Earth
Rod Giblett | |
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Short description/annotation: This book is about the relationship between humans and the earth, people and place, culture and nature. It argues that the concepts and categories of natural history, scientific ecology, landscape aesthetics and their associated practices in conservation landscapes and industrial land use work-over (if not overwork) nature. |
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Main description: This book is about the relationship between humans and the earth, people and place, culture and nature. It argues that the concepts and categories of natural history, scientific ecology, landscape aesthetics and their associated practices in conservation landscapes and industrial land use work-over (if not overwork) nature (land, living beings, air and water). By contrast, conservation counter-aesthetics, Australian Aboriginal Country and symbiotic livelihood in a bioregion work (with) the earth as living being.
Beginning with a historical account of the cultural construction of nature, it ends with a contemporary discussion of land symbiotic. It moves from the discourse of nature as dead machine to the practices of living with the earth as living being. On the way it critiques nature conservationism in national parks and wilderness for its will to mastery over nature. It goes on to undertake an ecological psychoanalysis of the oral and anal sadism of industrial land use in mining and pastoralism. The drive here is to promote eco-mental health.
Arguing for an extension of an ethics and practice of landcare beyond the conservation of special places, the book maintains that earthcare should embrace the whole earth, indeed the entire ecosphere. It traces and calls for a paradigm shift from the sanctuarism of national parks and wilderness to the sacrality of Aboriginal Country and the living earth. Ecological sustainability rather than ecologically sustainable development is the crucial touchstone. To this end a postmodern, political ecology is developed, applied to and illustrated by reference to a wide range of British, American and Australian examples. |
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Table of contents:
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Preface
Acknowledgments
I Cultural Nature
chapter one
The Nature of Natures and the Culture of Natures
chapter two
Is the Public Sphere to the Biosphere as Culture is to Nature (as Male is to Female)?
II Landscape Aesthetics
chapter three
Natures’s Fairest Forms: Aesthetics of Nature
chapter four
Pleasing Prospects Revista’d: The Gentleman’s Park Estate
III Colonial Country
chapter five
Home in the Wilds: Wild(er)ness as a Culural Category
chapter six
Riding Roughshod Over It: Mateship Against the Bush
IV National Parklands
chapter seven
Nature Sanctuarized: ‘Our’ National Parks as Modern Cathedrals
chapter eight
Sites and Rights of Enjoyment: Nature and Native Title in National Parks
V Industrial Landuse
chapter nine
Eating Earth: Mining and Gluttony
chapter ten
Kings in Kimberley Watercourses and Wetlands: Sadism and Pastoralism
VI Land Symbiotics
chapter eleven
‘We are the Land Ourselves’2: Aboriginal Country is a Cultural Category
chapter twelve
Home is Here: Livelihood, Bioregion and Symbiosis
Notes
Bibliography
Index |
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