Overview
- Engages into the cultural dimensions of the human-wetlands relationship
- Discusses how major civilisations have seen wetlands and integrated these within their development trajectories
- Places an emphasis on understanding the cultural nuances of conservation and human-nature interface
Part of the book series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment (LCE)
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Keywords
- Wetlands
- Environmental Humanites
- Paludiculture
- English Fens
- Marais Acadians
- Aboriginal
- Alexis Wright
- Judith Wright
- Mavis Ngallametta
- Conrad Martens
- John Olsen
- Fen Britons
- Bog Irish
- Marsh Arabs
- French Canadian
About this book
Traditional cultures have a long and vital association with wetlands as sacred places imbued with spiritual and ceremonial significance that provide physical sustenance and sources of materials in paludiculture. Ancient Greek and Roman cultures denigrated wetlands as places of disease, terror, horror, the hellish and the monstrous. Judeo-Christian theology was syncretized with them into the mainstream denigration of wetlands. Wetlands are a marginalized community, an oppressed minority and non-binary, queer bodies of water.
Reviews
“This beautifully composed and curated work is as supple and serpentine as the waterscapes it explores. The reader is taken on a wonderous immersion into the cultural practices and affiliations of a myriad of continuing planetary paludal encounters between humans and wetlands. Encompassing bodily and spiritual entanglements with these complex and dynamic ecosystems, Giblett affords us a glimpseinto other worlds running parallel with our modern lives, to question our relationship with the ancients, with landscapes, with each other. A delicate and joyous watery, marshy sojourn into ways of knowing, seeing and being that questions the very essence of our collective lives together as co-connected biota.” (Mary Gearey, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Applied Sciences, University of Brighton, UK)
“Rod Giblett presents a fascinating, original and thought-provoking account of how wetlands have shaped people and culture throughout history. From an exploration of wetland representations in art and literature, to their environmental, spiritual and agricultural values that often reflect the colonial gaze, the book offers critical insight into this rich cultural heritage – the implications of which continue to be overlooked in the mainstream global wetlands discourse.” (Alan Dixon, Professor of Sustainable Development, School of Science and the Environment, University of Worcester, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rod Giblett is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Writing and Literature Program at Deakin University, Australia. He has a rich publication history and research focuses on wetland cultural studies, psychoanalytic ecology, conservation counter-theology and Thoreau and Benjamin studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wetland Cultures
Book Subtitle: Ancient, Traditional, Contemporary
Authors: Rod Giblett
Series Title: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57364-4Due: 08 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57367-5Due: 08 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-57365-1Due: 08 July 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-3157
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3165
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 260
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour