PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
Recombinant Ecologies in the City: Editorial
It is January 2020. Sydney is full of smoke and full of birds. In an inner-city park, near a pond, corellas scratch the crispy grass looking for a feed. Ibis are ever present, but their number has multiplied. A tiny nature reserve only a few kms from the CBD is now home to magpies, currawongs, […]
DOWNLOAD pdfThe not-yet-tropical: mapping recombinant ecologies in a Sydney suburb
Mapping and fitness apps, government agencies and departments, and citizen science projects provide a wealth of data on urban green spaces, charting parks, reserves, and green corridors in and around Sydney. These maps represent vegetation as surface and, as Doreen Massey in the 2005 book For Space noted about other types of Western maps, detach […]
DOWNLOAD pdfRemapping heritage and the garden suburb: Haberfield’s civic ecologies
This article, published in Australian Geographer, presents work from 7 Conversations in Haberfield. Abstract: Gardens in Australia are considered an important site of heritage maintenance and negotiation for their capacity to materialise transformations in everyday life, design, lifestyles, demographics, environment, as well as social and cultural practices. In the case of conservation areas, gardens tend […]
DOWNLOAD pdfMarrickville Maps: Tropical Imaginaries of Abundance
This is a guide to three plant-led walks in Marricville. A Non-Traditional publication, this work is published by Frontyard Projects, Sydney, Australia, 2018, ISBN–13: 978–0–994625–1–3 and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-SA It was designed by Ella Cutler, and supported by funding from Inner West Council.
DOWNLOAD pdfMigrant gardens, rogue plants and inner city imaginaries in Sydney, Australia
In April we presented Migrant Gardens, a video essay at the Biennal Meeting of The Society for Cultural Anthropology, Displacements. The conference engaged with different kinds of displacements, as it explains on its website: Displacements are in the air: episodes of profound political upheaval, intensified crises of migration and expulsion, the disturbing specter of climatic […]
DOWNLOAD pdfReading Italian gardens in Australia transculturally
Last month I presented a paper on gardens and transculturation at the conference Living Transcultural Spaces, organised by Co.As.It in Melbourne. The presentation is available on the conference YouTube channel here, and this is the abstract: Gardens have been identified as significant locations of place-making and environmental negotiation for migrant communities in Australia. Gardens are […]
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