Alliances in the Anthropocene

Dr Christine Eriksen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her interests bring together social and cultural geography with natural hazards and disasters. She is author of Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty.Dr Susan Ballard is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts, English and Media at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She works at the intersection of art history and the environmental humanities. She is the co-author of 100 Atmospheres: scale and wonder in the Anthropocene.

• Chapter 1 Imperfect Alliances.- Chapter 2 Illuminations: This Is Bigger than Us.- Chapter 3 Illustrations: Echoes of What Was.- Chapter 4 Impressions: Embodying Uncertainty.- Chapter 5 Imprints: Ways of Seeing.- Chapter 6 Impermanence: Elemental Forces.- Chapter 7 Illusions: World-Making in the Anthropocene.

“Alliances in the Anthropocene: Fire, Plants and People by Christine Eriksen and Susan Ballard is an important and accessible conduit into thinking about human (mal)adaptation to bushfire.” (David Bowman, natureecoevocommunity.nature.com, June 3, 2021)