Rod Giblett is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communications and Multimedia, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. He has previously published books on wetlands. Recently he completed a critical, cultural history of communications technology. Currently he is writing a book about the body. He is also a local conservationist of the internationally important wetland near where he lives in Forrestdale. He is planning to write an oral and natural history of the area.
SynopsisThis 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...