The Ecology of Home
About this issue
This essay examines environmental thought in China and the West to propose an “ecological history” that offers new ways to think about the human/nature relationship.
Content
Aliases:
cities
settlements
Prevention or Poisoning? Dilemmas in Urban Rat Control
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 24
A Post-Wilderness National Park: Naturecultures of Destruction and Recuperation in the Castlemaine Goldfields
Mallee Residues: A Family Photograph Album from Southern Australia
A visual exploration of the settlement of Australia’s Mallee country by Europeans in the twentieth century.
Animal Mobilities and the Founding of New South Wales
Cushing uses the voyage of the First Fleet to illustrate the shift in hierarchies and power relations between humans and animals.
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.
The Australia Day Floods, January 1974
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 15
Visions of Australia: Environments in History
About this issue
The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent.
Content
Urban Horticulture in Modena, Italy, 1980–2015
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 11
A Legacy of Brisbane’s Benchmark Floods of 1893: Creating Dam Dependence
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 9