An examination of the role played by Chinese immigration to New Zealand and Australia in the understanding of the environment.
An exploration of the ideas of two postwar Australians, William Hatfield and Flexmore Hudson.
Katie Holmes explores the making of masculinity and the nation-making activity of agricultural practices in Billy Boyd’s photography of settlers in Australia’s Mallee Country.
Tom Griffiths argues for the importance of environmental history, and gives us three reasons for the uniqueness of the environmental history of Australia.
The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent.
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The categories and the types of care we assign are very often tenuous and troubled in nature. The articles in this volume explore some of the intricacy, ambiguity, and even irony in our perceptions and approaches to “multispecies” relations.
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Allan Curtis and Terry De Lacey analyze perceptions of the Australian grassroots movement “Landcare” through landholder surveys, thereby discussing wider concepts of natural resource management, stewardship and sustainable agriculture in Australia.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Hawaiians and Australian Aboriginals to protect their sacred areas from modern and industrial encroachment.
This film focuses on the causes of the decimation of honey bees and their hives around the globe, a phenomenon called “colony collapse disorder,” and its consequences for not only the economy but for humans’ very survival.
Fei Sheng analyzes the ecological factors in China that spurred migration to Australia at a time when the discovery of gold as a natural resource made the country an ideal migration destination. He shows how Chinese migrants applied their environmental experience in a white settler colony.
