
Forest Family
Australian Culture, Art, and Trees
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 28. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-90-04-36864-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculpture representing ancient Australian forests.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.
Reviews / Votes
"This work also makes a worthy contribution to post-dualistic theories of how human histories arise in and out of complex transhuman negotiations." (Peer Reviewer)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-36864-4 (9789004368644)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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).
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).
Content
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
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