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Irrigation Nation or Pacific Partner? Visions for Postwar Australia
An exploration of the ideas of two postwar Australians, William Hatfield and Flexmore Hudson.
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Dragons Abroad: Chinese Migration and Environmental Change in Australasia
An examination of the role played by Chinese immigration to New Zealand and Australia in the understanding of the environment.
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Entangled Nature: The Stirling Range National Park
Using the example of the Stirling Range National Park, Andrea Gaynor shows that the dualistic practice of reservation does not necessarily ensure the preservation or conservation of landscapes and ecosystems.
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The Transformative Craft of Environmental History: Perspectives on Australian Scholarship
Tom Griffiths argues for the importance of environmental history, and gives us three reasons for the uniqueness of the environmental history of Australia.
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Men and Nature: Hegemonic Masculinities and Environmental Change
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
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Excuse Us, While We Fix the Sky: WEIRD Supermen and Climate Engineering
Jim Fleming gives an overview of the male-dominated state of climate engineering proposals and criticizes the current masculinist nature of climate intervention.
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Masculinity, Work, and the Industrial Forest in the US Pacific Northwest
Erik Loomis discusses the production of working-class masculinity in the US Pacific Northwest, highlighting environmental history’s need to reinstate working people in its studies.
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Every Day Like Today: Learning How to Be a Man in Love (An Excerpt from the Manuscript)
An excerpt from Alex Carr Johnson’s manuscript “Every Day Like Today: Learning How to Be a Man in Love.”
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Inventing Bushcraft: Masculinity, Technology, and Environment in Central Africa, ca. 750–1250
Kathryn M. de Luna explores the gendered micropolitics of knowledge production through a case study of Botatwe-speaking societies (ca. 750–1250) in south central Africa.
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“The Love of the Chase Is an Inherent Delight in Man”: Hunting and Masculine Emotions in the Victorian Zoologist’s Travel Memoir
Through a reading of two Victorian travel memoirs, Will Abberley demonstrates the contradictions in Victorian attitudes towards masculinity, nature, and emotions.