Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild (eBook, PDF)

Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence
Redaktion: Bartel, Robyn; Harris, Stephen; 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000215076
• Artikelnr.: 60118737

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