Forest Family

Australian Culture, Art, and Trees
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36864-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Critical Plant Studies

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 The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculpture representing ancient Australian forests.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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryan, John C

Giblett, Rod

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

1 Introducing Forest Family

John C. Ryan and Rod Giblett

Part 1: Old-Growth Nature and Culture

2 From Understory to Overstory: Critical Studies of Old-Growth Trees and Forests

John C. Ryan

3 Forest Giants: Locating Southwest Australian Old-Growth Country

John C. Ryan

4 Family Trees: Jarrah, Karri, and the Gibletts of the Balbarrup-Dingup Area

Rod Giblett

5 Built in the Forest: A Hamlet History of Giblett Cultural Heritage

Rod Giblett

Photographic Essay: Let No Man Put Asunder

Juha Tolonen

Part 2: Old-Growth Arts and Activism

6 From Burls to Blockades: Artistic Interpretations of Karri Trees and Forests

John C. Ryan

7 Sing the Karri, Sculpt the Jarrah: Sustaining Old-Growth Forest Through the Arts

Robin Ryan

8 Old-Growth Activism: The Giblett Forest Rescue of 1994 and 1997

Nandi Chinna

Über Autor(innen)

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).