Alliances in the Anthropocene: Fire, Plants, and People

ISBN-13: 9789811525353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 136 str.

Christine Eriksen; Susan Ballard

Recenzje

"Alliances in the Anthropocene: Fire, Plants and People by Christine Eriksen and Susan Ballard is an important and accessible conduit into thinking about human (mal)adaptation to bushfire." (David Bowman, natureecoevocommunity.nature.com, June 3, 2021)

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Imperfect Alliances.- Chapter 2 Illuminations: This Is Bigger than Us.- Chapter 3 Illustrations: Echoes of What Was.- Chapter 4 Impressions: Embodying Uncertainty.- Chapter 5 Imprints: Ways of Seeing.- Chapter 6 Impermanence: Elemental Forces.- Chapter 7 Illusions: World-Making in the Anthropocene.

O autorze

Dr Christine Eriksen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her interests bring together social and cultural geography with natural hazards and disasters. She is author of Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty.

Dr Susan Ballard is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts, English and Media at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She works at the intersection of art history and the environmental humanities. She is the co-author of 100 Atmospheres: scale and wonder in the Anthropocene.

Blurb

Alliances in the Anthropocene examines how human impacts on the planetary system are being felt at all levels, from the geological and the arboreal to the atmospheric. Christine Eriksen and Susan Ballard examine the agency of fire, plants and people within a changing climate. They embrace the narratives of bushfire survivors and responses of contemporary artists, as practice and experience become interwoven with fire, ruin and regrowth. From Aboriginal ecocultural burning and wildfire to nuclear fire, the authors show how relationships come to be and are likely to change due to human and non-human interdependencies in the Anthropocene.