Forest Family

Australian Culture, Art, and Trees

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculpture representing ancient Australian forests. Forest Family centers on the relationship between old-growth nature and human culture through the narrative strand of the Giblett family of Western Australia and the forests in which they settled during the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to general readers of environmental history, as well as scholars in critical plant studies and the environmental humanities.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-28
Mått155 x 235 x 11 mm
Vikt328 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Plant Studies
Antal sidor188
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004368644

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John C. Ryan, Ph.D. (2011), Edith Cowan University, is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New England, Australia, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Plants in Contemporary Poetry (Routledge, 2018). Rod Giblett, Ph.D. (1988), Murdoch University, is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of Environmental Humanities and Theologies: Ecoculture, Literature, and the Bible (Routledge, 2018).

AcknowledgementsList of Contributors1 Introducing Forest FamilyJohn C. Ryan and Rod GiblettPart 1: Old-Growth Nature and Culture2 From Understory to Overstory: Critical Studies of Old-Growth Trees and ForestsJohn C. Ryan3 Forest Giants: Locating Southwest Australian Old-Growth CountryJohn C. Ryan4 Family Trees: Jarrah, Karri, and the Gibletts of the Balbarrup-Dingup AreaRod Giblett5 Built in the Forest: A Hamlet History of Giblett Cultural HeritageRod GiblettPhotographic Essay: Let No Man Put AsunderJuha TolonenPart 2: Old-Growth Arts and Activism6 From Burls to Blockades: Artistic Interpretations of Karri Trees and ForestsJohn C. Ryan7 Sing the Karri, Sculpt the Jarrah: Sustaining Old-Growth Forest Through the ArtsRobin Ryan8 Old-Growth Activism: The Giblett Forest Rescue of 1994 and 1997Nandi Chinna