Description
Book SynopsisUsing the rich and vital Australian Aboriginal understanding of country as a model,
People and Places of Nature and Culture affirms the importance of a sustainable relationship between nature and culture. While current thought includes the mistaken notion—perpetuated by natural history, ecology, and political economy—that humans have a mastery over the Earth, this book demonstrates the problems inherent in this view. In the current age of climate change, this is an important appraisal of the relationship between nature and culture, and a projection of what needs to change if we want to achieve environmental stability.
Trade ReviewThis book offers a wealth of insights and new ways of seeing and debating complex and enduring environmental questions' – David Hollinsworth, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
Table of ContentsPreface: From Sustainability to Symbiosis
PART I: CULTURAL NATURE Chapter 1: The Nature of Natures and the Cultures of Natures
Chapter 2: Is the Public Sphere to the Biosphere as Culture is to Nature (as Male is to Female)?
PART II: LANDSCAPE AESTHETICS Chapter 3: Nature's Fairest Forms: Aesthetics of Nature Chapter 4: Pleasing Prospects Revista’d: The Gentleman's Park Estate
PART III: COLONIAL COUNTRY Chapter 5: Home in the Wilds: Wild(er)ness as a Cultural Category Chapter 6: Riding Roughshod Over It: Mateship Against the Bush
PART IV: NATIONAL PARKLANDS Chapter 7: Nature Sanctuarized: 'Our' National Parks as Modern Cathedrals Chapter 8: Sites and Rights of Enjoyment: Nature and Native Title in National Parks
PART V: INDUSTRIAL LAND USE Chapter 9: Eating Earth: Mining and Gluttony Chapter 10: Kings in Kimberley Watercourses and Wetlands: Sadism and Pastoralism
PART VI: LAND SYMBIOTICS Chapter 11: 'We are the Land Ourselves': Aboriginal Country is a Cultural Landscape Chapter 12: Home is Here: Livelihood, Bioregion and Symbiosis
