Australian wetland cultures : swamps and the environmental crisis / edited by John Charles Ryan and Li Chen.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Environment and society.
Other Authors: Ryan, John (John Charles) (Poet) (Editor, Contributor)
Chen, Li (Author of Environmental protection) (Editor, Contributor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]
Series:Environment and society.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Australia.
Wetlands > Australia.
Swamps > Australia.
Human ecology.
Wetlands.
Australia.
Physical Description:xiii, 253 pages : illustrations, map, plan ; 24 cm.
Variant Title:
Swamps and the environmental crisis
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I: Australian wetland cultures. The swamp / Nandi Chinna ; Racecourse Lagoon, Uralla, New South Wales / John C. Ryan ; Introduction to Australian wetland cultures: thinking about (and with) swamps / John C. Ryan and Li Chen ; Rainbow serpent anthropology, or Rainbow spirit theology, or Swamp serpent sacrality and marsh monster maternity? / Rod Giblett ; Artist and swamp: wetlands in Australian painting and photography / Rod Giblett ; Poet and swamp: wetlands in Australian verse / John C. Ryan ; Plant and swamp: the biocultural histories of five Australian hydrophytes / John C. Ryan
  • Part II: Western Australian wetland cultures. Beeliar (December 6, 2016) / Nandi Chinna ; Three wetland poems (dedicated to J.P. Quinton) / John Kinsella: Poem for the gathering ; The trees alongside Bibra Drive ; Resisting from within the Green Tent at Bibra Drive, Beeliar (for James) ; Environmental activism and wetlands conservation in western Australia / Philip Jennings ; Where Fanny Balbuk walked: re-imagining Perth's wetlands / John C. Ryan, Danielle Brady, and Christopher Kueh ; The cultural significance of wetlands: Perth's lost swamps to the Beeliar Wetlands / Danielle Brady and Jeffrey Murray ; Swamp-philia and paludal heroism: the passion of wetland conservationists in Australia and elsewhere / John C. Ryan and Li Chen ; Power of deluge / Glen Phillips
  • Epilogue: Twenty-five years of wetland studies in the humanities / Rod Giblett.