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  • First Knowledges Plants

    Past, Present and Future

    by Zena Cumpston, Michael Fletcher, Lesley Head ...
    What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known this to be true. For millennia, reciprocal relationships with plants have provided both sustenance ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Beyond Green

    The Social Life of Australian Nature

    by Lesley Head ...
    How are we to think about nature and the environment?The idea of nature as it relates to culture, society and humans has always been in constant flux and highly contested.Lesley Head interrogates the ways the cultures of nature have operated in Australia across time, and how these ways of thinking and being limit our capacity to deal with the challenges of the climate change and biodiversity ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change

    by Lesley Head ...
    Series series Key Issues in Environmental Change
    Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeocological reconstruction have also allowed for new interpretations of the evidence for the earliest human impacts on the environment. It is essential that such evidence is examined in the context of modern trends in social sciences ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Vegetal Politics

    Belonging, practices and places

    Edited by Lesley Head, Jennifer Atchison, Catherine Phillips, Kathleen Buckingham ...
    Cultural geography has a long and proud tradition of research into human–plant relations. However, until recently, that tradition has been somewhat disconnected from conceptual advances in the social sciences, even those to which cultural geographers have made significant contributions. With a number of important exceptions, plant studies have been less explicitly part of more-than-human ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ingrained

    A Human Bio-geography of Wheat

    by Lesley Head, Jennifer Atchison ...
    Plants are fundamental players in human lives, underpinning our food supply and contributing to the air we breathe, but they are easy to take for granted and have received insufficient attention in the social sciences. This book advances understanding of human-plant relations using the example of wheat. Theoretically, this book develops new insights by bringing together human geography, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene

    Re-conceptualising human–nature relations

    by Lesley Head ...
    Series series Routledge Research in the Anthropocene
    The Anthropocene is a volatile and potentially catastrophic age demanding new ways of thinking about relations between humans and the nonhuman world. This book explores how responses to environmental challenges are hampered by a grief for a pristine and certain past, rather than considering the scale of the necessary socioeconomic change for a 'future' world. Conceptualisations of human-nature ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management

    Scandinavian and Australian perspectives on peoples and landscapes

    Edited by Lesley Head, Katarina Saltzman, Gunhild Setten, Marie Stenseke ...
    How are different concepts of nature and time embedded into human practices of landscape and environmental management? And how can temporalities that entwine past, present and future help us deal with challenges on the ground? In a time of uncertainty and climate change, how much can we hold onto ideals of nature rooted in a pristine and stable past? The Scandinavian and Australian perspectives in ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • First Knowledges Law

    The Way of the Ancestors

    by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn ...
    Our Laws are forever present and provide the pathways for all Australians to truly learn how to belong to this continent.' - June Oscar 'No other current work has been able to so comprehensively explain the significance of traditional law in all its manifestations.' - Henry Reynolds Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • First Knowledges Astronomy

    Sky Country

    by Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli ...
    What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest scientists in human history. Many First Peoples regard the land as a reflection of the sky and the sky a reflection of the land. Sophisticated astronomical ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • First Knowledges Country

    Future Fire, Future Farming

    by Bruce Pascoe, Bill Gammage ...
    What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • First Knowledges Design

    Building on Country

    by Alison Page, Paul Memmott ...
    Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • First Knowledges Songlines

    The Power and Promise

    by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly ...
    Let this series begin the discussion.' - Bruce Pascoe 'An act of intellectual reconciliation.' - Lynette Russell Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ... Read more

    $6.59 USD