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"With Nature" provides new ways to think about our relationship
with nature in today's technologically mediated culture. Warwick
Mules makes original connections with German critical philosophy
and French poststructuralism in order to examine the effects of
technology on our interactions with the natural world. In so doing,
the author proposes a new way of thinking about the eco-self in
terms of a careful sharing of the world with both human and non
human beings. "With Nature" ultimately argues for a poetics of
everyday life that affirms the place of the human-nature relation
as a creative and productive site for ecological self-renewal and
redirection.
A not-so-quiet revolution seems to be occurring in wealthy
capitalist societies - supermarkets selling 'guilt free' Fairtrade
products; lifestyle TV gurus exhorting us to eat less, buy local
and go green; neighbourhood action groups bent on 'swopping not
shopping'. And this is happening not at the margins of society but
at its heart, in the shopping centres and homes of ordinary people.
Today we are seeing a mainstreaming of ethical concerns around
consumption that reflects an increasing anxiety with - and
accompanying sense of responsibility for - the risks and excesses
of contemporary lifestyles in the 'global north'.
This collection of essays provides a range of critical tools for
understanding the turn towards responsible or conscience
consumption and, in the process, interrogates the notion that we
can shop our way to a more ethical, sustainable future. Written by
leading international scholars from a variety of disciplinary
backgrounds - and drawing upon examples from across the globe -
Ethical Consumption makes a major contribution to the still
fledgling field of ethical consumption studies. This collection is
a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between
consumer culture and contemporary social life.
Tracing the life of the plants and animals of Forrestdale Lake
through the six seasons of the local indigenous people, the first
part of Black Swan Lake presents a wetlands calendar over a yearly
cycle of the rising, falling and drying waters of this
internationally important wetland in south-western Australia. The
second part of this book considers issues and explores themes from
the first part, including a cultural history of the seasons and the
black swan. Black Swan Lake is a book of nature writing and
environmental history and philosophy arising from living in a
particular place with other beings. The book is a guide to living
simply and sustainably with the earth in troubled times and places
by making and maintaining a strong attachment and vital connection
to a local place and its flora and fauna. Local places and their
living processes sustain human and other life on this living earth.
Using the rich and vital Australian Aboriginal understanding of
country as a model, "People and Places of Nature and Culture
"affirms the importance of a sustainable relationship between
nature and culture. While current thought includes the mistaken
notion--perpetuated by natural history, ecology, and political
economy--that humans have a mastery over the Earth, this book
demonstrates the problems inherent in this view. In the current age
of climate change, this is an important appraisal of the
relationship between nature and culture, and a projection of what
needs to change if we want to achieve environmental stability.
A not-so-quiet revolution seems to be occurring in wealthy
capitalist societies - supermarkets selling 'guilt free' Fairtrade
products; lifestyle TV gurus exhorting us to eat less, buy local
and go green; neighbourhood action groups bent on 'swopping not
shopping'. And this is happening not at the margins of society but
at its heart, in the shopping centres and homes of ordinary people.
Today we are seeing a mainstreaming of ethical concerns around
consumption that reflects an increasing anxiety with - and
accompanying sense of responsibility for - the risks and excesses
of contemporary lifestyles in the 'global north'. This collection
of essays provides a range of critical tools for understanding the
turn towards responsible or conscience consumption and, in the
process, interrogates the notion that we can shop our way to a more
ethical, sustainable future. Written by leading international
scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds - and drawing
upon examples from across the globe - Ethical Consumption makes a
major contribution to the still fledgling field of ethical
consumption studies. This collection is a must-read for anyone
interested in the relationship between consumer culture and
contemporary social life.
Melbourne, founded in 1835 among marshes and beside a sluggish
stream, grew from wetlands into a world-class modern city. Drawing
on a wide range of historical, literary and artistic sources, this
book explores the cultural and environmental history of the city
and its site. Tracing the city from its swampy beginnings in a
squatter's settlement nestled in the marshy delta of the Yarra and
Maribyrnong Rivers, Rod Giblett illuminates Melbourne through its
visible structures and the invisible history of its site. The book
places Melbourne within an international context by comparing and
contrasting it to other cities built on or beside wetlands,
including London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles and Toronto.
Further, it is the first book to apply the work of European
thinkers and writers on modernity and the modern city - such as
Walter Benjamin and Peter Sloterdijk - to an analysis of Melbourne.
Giblett considers the intertwining of nature and culture, people
and place, and cities and wetlands in this bioregional and
ecocultural analysis. Placing the city in its proper bioregional
and international contexts, Modern Melbourne provides a rich
historical analysis of the cultural capital of Australia.
In "Canadian Wetlands," Rod Giblett reads the Canadian canon
against the grain, critiquing its popular representation of
wetlands and proposing alternatives by highlighting the work of
recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead
and Harry Thurston, and by entering into dialogue with American
writers. The book will engender mutual respect between researchers
for the contribution that different disciplinary approaches can and
do make to the study and conservation of wetlands internationally.
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