People and Places of Nature and Culture
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
278 pages
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7 x 9
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© 2011
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Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: From Sustainability to Symbiosis
Part I: Cultural Nature
Chapter 1: The Nature of Natures and the Cultures of Natures
Chapter 2: Is the Public Sphere to the Biosphere as Culture is to Nature (as Male is to Female?)
Part II: Landscape Aesthetics
Chapter 3: Nature’s Fairest Forms: Aesthetics of Nature
Chapter 4: Pleasing Prospects Revista’d: The Gentleman’s Park Estate
Part III: Colonial Country
Chapter 5: Home in the Wilds: Wild(er)ness as a Cultural Category
Chapter 6: Riding Roughshod Over It: Mateship Against the Bush
Part IV: National Parklands
Chapter 7: Nature Sanctuarized: ‘Our’ National Parks as Modern Cathedrals
Chapter 8: Sites and Rights of Enjoyment: Nature and Native Title in National Parks
Part V: Industrial Land Use
Chapter 9: Eating Earth: Mining and Gluttony
Chapter 10: Kings in Kimberley Watercourses and Wetlands: Sadism and Pastorialism
Part VI: Land Symbiotics
Chapter 11: ‘We are the Land Ourselves’: Aboriginal Country is a Cultural Landscape
Chapter 12: Home is Here: Livelihood, Bioregion and Symbiosis
References
Index
Preface: From Sustainability to Symbiosis
Part I: Cultural Nature
Chapter 1: The Nature of Natures and the Cultures of Natures
Chapter 2: Is the Public Sphere to the Biosphere as Culture is to Nature (as Male is to Female?)
Part II: Landscape Aesthetics
Chapter 3: Nature’s Fairest Forms: Aesthetics of Nature
Chapter 4: Pleasing Prospects Revista’d: The Gentleman’s Park Estate
Part III: Colonial Country
Chapter 5: Home in the Wilds: Wild(er)ness as a Cultural Category
Chapter 6: Riding Roughshod Over It: Mateship Against the Bush
Part IV: National Parklands
Chapter 7: Nature Sanctuarized: ‘Our’ National Parks as Modern Cathedrals
Chapter 8: Sites and Rights of Enjoyment: Nature and Native Title in National Parks
Part V: Industrial Land Use
Chapter 9: Eating Earth: Mining and Gluttony
Chapter 10: Kings in Kimberley Watercourses and Wetlands: Sadism and Pastorialism
Part VI: Land Symbiotics
Chapter 11: ‘We are the Land Ourselves’: Aboriginal Country is a Cultural Landscape
Chapter 12: Home is Here: Livelihood, Bioregion and Symbiosis
References
Index
Review Quotes
Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
“An ambitious examination of Western discourses of nature and culture and their ideological and material effects within Europe and colonial settler states, especially Australia. . . . This book offers a wealth of insights and new ways of seeing and debating complex and enduring environmental questions.”
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