Rod Giblett 
People and Places of Nature and Culture [PDF ebook] 

Using the rich and vital Australian Aboriginal understanding of country as a model,
People and Places of Nature and Culture affirms the importance of a sustainable relationship between nature and culture. While current thought includes the mistaken notion—perpetuated by natural history, ecology, and political economy—that humans have a mastery over the Earth, this book demonstrates the problems inherent in this view. In the current age of climate change, this is an important appraisal of the relationship between nature and culture, and a projection of what needs to change if we want to achieve environmental stability.

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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 Pastoralism 


 


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

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Emily Potter is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University in Australia.