Mallee Residues: A Family Photograph Album from Southern Australia
A visual exploration of the settlement of Australia’s Mallee country by Europeans in the twentieth century.
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Entangled Nature: The Stirling Range National Park
Using the example of the Stirling Range National Park, Andrea Gaynor shows that the dualistic practice of reservation does not necessarily ensure the preservation or conservation of landscapes and ecosystems.
Making Masculinity: Land, Body, Image in Australia’s Mallee Country
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.
An Unruly Neighbour: Wimmera Ryegrass
Twigg traces the journey of Wimmera ryegrass from Europe to Australia, exploring the profound role it has played in shaping farming practices in southern Australia.
Visions of Australia: Environments in History
About this issue
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.
Content
Urban Horticulture in Modena, Italy, 1980–2015
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 11
Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 8
Dead Zones and Toxic Algae Bloom in US Waters
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 7
Molding the Planet: Human Niche Construction at Work
About this issue
This volume explores some of the diverse niches created by humans in different times and places. The essays span the globe, from Texas to China, from Scandinavia to Papua New Guinea, exploring agricultural spaces and indoor biomes, human aesthetics, and Anthropocentric perspectives.
Content
Of Mice and Men: Ecologies of Care in a Climate Chamber
Veit Braun explores the troubling and often contradictory nature of care, revealing the restrictions of simplifying the duality of caring or violent states.