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Beyond green : the social life of Australian nature
Head, Lesley2025
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Click and Collect for Beyond green : the social life of Australian nature"Rethinking our relationship with the environment. How are we to think about nature and the environment? The idea of nature as it relates to culture, society and humans has always been in constant flux and highly contested. Lesley Head interrogates the ways the cultures of nature have operated in Australia across time, and how these ways of thinking and being limit our capacity to deal with the challenges of the climate change and biodiversity crises. Drawing on her life's work and lessons she has picked up along the way, Head suggests that it is up to us to attentively listen, the better to destabilise and subvert dominant narratives, and to imagine new possibilities. She believes we have the nous, resources and lessons from Indigenous, settler-descendant and immigrant cultures to reduce risk in the face of the unexpected and the unimaginable. In Beyond Green, the story of nature and people weaves research and personal experience through many different times and spaces, offering new ways of understanding. It is a richly creative engagement with the abundant possibilities and pleasure of nature as a place of regeneration that is as warned by the rawk of the crow as it is accompanied by the carolling of magpies."-- Publisher description.
Main title:
Beyond green : the social life of Australian nature / Lesley Head.
Author:
Head, Lesley, author
Imprint:
Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2025.©2025
Collation:
252 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: RelationsWho is this 'we', the Anthropos?So much nature, so close to homeGrief, tears and not-so-silent wailingPossessing wildernessRewilding SummerlandThe whiteness of greenCultivating natureThe PreservesFloating in cultureCountryNature takes the blameBlack Summer and everyday catastrophesFrom unsettling to otherwiseRepair is in the zeitgeistThe work of living with and killingToo much and not enoughEpilogue: Weaving glass.
ISBN:
9780522880632 (pbk)9780522880632
Dewey class:
304.20994304.2
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
580134
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Environment | 304.2 HEA | In-transit from Sandringham Library to Beaumaris Library (Set: 18 Jun 2025) |
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