Oyster Culture in the Estuary Worlds of Southern Queensland
Frawley’s essay explores oyster populations and technologies in southern Queensland in the late nineteenth century.
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Pelicans: Protection, Pests, and Private Property
Emily O’Gorman focuses on the Australian pelicans of South Australia’s Coorong region to examine how historical and contemporary ways of protecting these birds have been entangled with class politics, cross-cultural relationships, and the law.
About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North
Through interdisciplinary work in the circumpolar north, About the Hearth refocuses on issues of material culture and social organization in indigenous and local communities. In the process, it makes some compelling ethnographic and theoretical arguments.
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies evaluates local and indigenous ecological knowledge which may help populations cope with insecurity due to environmental, sociopolitical and economic stressors, through positive examples from Southeast Asian islands.
Alistair Knox (1912–1986) and the Birth of Environmental Building in Australia
Arcadia, Autumn 2016, no. 18
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Politics of Postcolonial Writing
Clapperton evaluates three existing frameworks for understanding Indigenous and non-Indigenous claims to know the environment. While each framework has its strengths, they reinforce a binary between Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge and keep salvage paradigms of Indigenous knowledge alive. Clapperton calls for an enlarged definition of Indigenous knowledge that could account for boundary-crossing and Indigenous people “doing” science.
Environmental Knowledge, Environmental Politics: Case Studies from Canada and Western Europe
About this issue
These essays showcase examples from Canada and Western Europe, offering insights into how different forms of environmental knowledge and environmental politics come to be seen as legitimate or illegitimate.
Content
Bombs and Biodiversity: A Case Study of Military Environmentalism in Australia
Arcadia, Autumn 2016, no. 15
Standing on Sacred Ground: Islands of Sanctuary
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Hawaiians and Australian Aboriginals to protect their sacred areas from modern and industrial encroachment.
Standing on Sacred Ground: Fire and Ice
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Ethiopians and the Q’eros people of the Peruvian Andes against the pressures of religious conflicts and climate change.