(In)scribing Body/Landscape Relations

Bronwyn Davies is professor of education at James Cook University in the far north of Australia. She has played a major role in translating the philosophical principles of poststructuralist theory into practice.

• Chapter 1 Prologue or, Where does this book come from?Part 2 (In)scribing body/landscape relations: AustraliaChapter 3 Landscapes and BodiesChapter 4 Writing stories of (be)longingChapter 5 Australian men talk about becoming environmentalists [with Hilary Whitehouse]Part 6 (In)scribing body/landscape relations: JapanChapter 7 Remembering Japanese childhoodsChapter 8 Traveling in JapanChapter 9 Japanese environmentalists talk about Japanese body/landscape relationsPart 10 Subjection and the eclipsing of the constitutive power of discourse through fictional textsChapter 11 An exploration of body/landscape relations in Kawabata's Yama no Oto [with Takeshi Osanai]Chapter 12 Reading and writing The Kadaithcha Sung: A novel by Sam Watson [with Sam Watson]Chapter 13 The Second Bridegroom: A Narrative of captivity in Australian landscapesChapter 14 (Be)longing in the writing of Janette Turner Hospital:Eclipsing the constitutive force of discourseChapter 15 Conclusion: The ways and the song of the book

Davies has given us a lush and exciting exploration of what is possible when body and landscape are thought and written together instead of in opposition.