Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild

Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence
Herausgeber: Bartel, Robyn; Utley, Fiona; Branagan, Marty

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Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780367279851
• ISBN-10: 0367279851
• Artikelnr.: 59983122

Autorenporträt

Robyn Bartel is an Associate Professor at the University of New England, Australia. She is the lead editor of Water Policy, Imagination and Innovation: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Routledge, 2018). Marty Branagan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art of Active Resistance (2013). Fiona Utley is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia. Her research, publications and international conference presentations explore phenomenological perspectives on identity, trauma, and embodiment. Stephen Harris is a Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia. He is one of the co-editors of Water Policy, Imagination and Innovation: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Routledge, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. What is wilderness? The stories we tell 1. Wilderness in Literature
and Culture: Changing perceptions of the relationship with 'country' 2.
Evolving values of wilderness in the Age of Extinction: Environmental
campaigning in Australia 3. Collaborative Wilderness Preservation and the
Franklin River Campaign: Environmentalists, Aboriginal People and the
Creative Arts 4. The Wilderness experience in National Parks: A case study
of Boonoo Boonoo National Park 5. Aboriginal owned and jointly managed
national parks: Caring for cultural imperatives and conservation outcomes
6. Changing Attitudes towards Wilderness in Aotearoa/New Zealand: From
Disappointment to Glorification and Guardianship Part 2. The how of
wilderness: Relationships and reciprocity 7. Reimagining wilderness and the
wild in Australia in the wake of bushfires 8. Human Engagement in
Place-Care: Back from the Wilderness 9. Botanical Wilderness Narratives:
Plant Intelligence and Shifting Perceptions of the Botanical World 10.
People as purposeful and conscientious resource stewards: Human Agency in a
World Gone Wild 11. Exploring wilderness in Iceland: Charting meaningful
encounters with uninhabited lands Part 3. The why of wilderness: New and
different wilds 12. Wilderness Triumphant: Beyond Romantic Nature,
Settlement and Agriculture 13. The future of wilderness in the Anthropocene
and beyond: Wild machinations 14. Rewilding as an expression of love:
philosophical perspectives on human engagement 15. From Wilderness
Preservation to the Fight for Lawlands: Towards a Revisioning of
Conservation 16. Rupturing the Western concept of wilderness: restoring
human relationships with place and nature