Riverlands of the Anthropocene: Walking Our Waterways as Places of Becoming

ISBN-13: 9780367497835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str.

MARGARET SOMERVILLE

Opis

The book addresses some of the major conceptual challenges of the Anthropocene. Drawing on stories of migration, environmental activism, and encounters with the living beings that inhabit waterways, it considers the personal relationship with urban waterways and how it links to contemporary global issues.

Spis treści

Preface  1. A blue literature review  2. Rivers of the Anthropocene  3. Watery beginnings   4. Walking the songlines of the singing painting river  5. Riverland’s watery ways  6. Bedrock’s sacramental becomings  7. The river’s crossing  8. Global materialities: and the artful excess of river’s litter  9. Regeneration: of trees, weeds and tender intimacies   10. Life and death in the Anthropocene   Epilogue

O autorze

Margaret Somerville is Professor of Education and the Director of the Centre for Educational Research in the School of Education, University of Western Sydney, Australia.