Brian Furze explores the importance of environmental awareness in the context of alternative agrarian social relations.
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
Fiona Cameron, Carson Fellow from August 2011 until March 2012, talks about her research on ‘Museums, Education, and Climate Change’ at the intersections between science, technology and nature.
The introduction to Australia Revisited, which provides an opportunity to consider the developments in environmental history over the past decade, and reflect on how Australian environmental historiography sits in relation to that of the rest of the world.
This article traces contentious debates throughout the years leading up to and following the creation of the Australian Forestry School, between and among leading foresters throughout the British Empire born outside of Australia on the one hand, and, on the other, professionally trained foresters and Australian politicians who had been born in Australia.
Jones explores the disparity between real and imagined environments in Australian organic farming and gardening during the 1940s.
This article argues that during the interwar period in Australia, contrary to assertions that social, political and economic pressures stifled environmental debate, there were a wide range of interests pushing for conservation, the development of National Parks and limits on development schemes.
Feelings of hatred, fear and alienation towards the Australian environment have been amongst the major themes of Australian history. Farmers especially have been characterised as hating trees, particularly in the densely treed, difficult to clear rainforests of eastern Australia…
The authors identify two distinct forms of masculinity, Australian and Cuban, and proceed to show how men and their rhetoric are overtaken, then transformed, by political and environmental developments not of their choosing.
Histories of environmentalism in Australia often overlook the 1950s, an era when scientific ecology dominated environmental activism…
