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Landscape, Place and Culture - Linkages between Australia and India (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Landscape, Place and Culture - Linkages between Australia and India (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This collection of essays takes an interdisciplinary approach to
the ecological, social, economic and, in particular, the cultural
dimensions of the Australia-India relationship. The essays provide
many levels of focus on environment, place and culture. Some evoke
appreciation of particular "places," either in India or Australia.
Many explore how literature has treated "landscape," while some are
comparative studies of cultural, historical and political
development.The essays arise from a particular gathering of
scholars: The East India chapter of the Indian Association for the
Study of Australia (IASA) held its inaugural international
conference in Kolkata on 22-23 January 2009. Much of the work is
comparative, exploring common Indian and Australian themes of
colonial and postcolonial experience, implications of migration and
diaspora, and shared language and literature. The work also
explores shared environmental crisis, manifest in landscapes such
as the Mouths of the Ganges and Australia's Murray Darling Basin.
Such comparisons indicate our shared experience of the "crisis" of
ecological, social, economic and cultural sustainability.As human
future is colonized through environmental degradation, and
determined by human migration and shared culture and values, our
relationship to "place" is revitalized and reassessed. We seek
simultaneously a reconciliation between humans and a realignment of
the human-nature relationship. This is the most basic meaning of
social and ecological sustainability.
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