Overview
- Provides a unique exploration of the alliances between fire and plants, plants and humans, and humans and fire
- Offers a cross-disciplinary opportunity to think about the agency and inter dependencies of humans, other-than-humans, elements and material ecologies in the disciplines of human geography and art history
- Drawing on conversations with people who have experienced bushfires, and placing these narratives alongside discussions of contemporary art, the book provides insights into how relationships come to be and are likely to change due to interdependencies between fire, plants and human existence in the Anthropocene
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“Alliances in the Anthropocene: Fire, Plants and People by Christine Eriksen and Susan Ballard is an important and accessible conduit into thinking about human (mal)adaptation to bushfire.” (David Bowman, natureecoevocommunity.nature.com, June 3, 2021)
‘How should humans live in the Anthropocene? In this beautiful book, Christine Eriksen and Susan Ballard help us answer the question. It can and should be a life attuned to the many alliances we enter into with all manner of non-human agencies, even those that can at times be threatening. The authors’ gripping stories about fire, plants and people in Australia have global relevance. They demonstrate the folly of thinking we can or should seek to domesticate and control the forces of life on our remarkable planet.’ (Professor Noel Castree, University of Manchester, UK)Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr Susan Ballard is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts, English and Media at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She works at the intersection of art history and the environmental humanities. She is the co-author of 100 Atmospheres: scale and wonder in the Anthropocene.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alliances in the Anthropocene
Book Subtitle: Fire, Plants, and People
Authors: Christine Eriksen, Susan Ballard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2533-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2532-2Published: 01 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2535-3Published: 01 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2533-9Published: 29 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 136
Number of Illustrations: 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Environmental Sociology