Andrea Gaynor

Shifting Baselines or Shifting Currents? An Environmental History of Fish and Fishing in the South-West Capes Region of Western Australia

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

Date: 2014

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8727-7_12

Mallee Country

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 02-07-2019

DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2020.1784525

‘Slim female records the same old story’: Newspapers, gender, and recreational fishing in Australia, 1957–2000

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 12-2016

DOI: 10.1016/J.GEOFORUM.2016.10.018

Environmental History

Publisher: Springer Singapore

Date: 2021

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0247-4_12

The oldest new woodland on earth

Publisher: ANU Press

Date: 23-11-2021

DOI: 10.22459/IREH.07.02.2021.05

Community-led land management

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-04-2022

DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2022.2077848

Engineers Engaging Community: Water and Energy

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 28-02-2013

DOI: 10.2200/S00477ED1V01Y201302ETS019

Drought, Mud, Filth, and Flood: Water Crises in Australian Cities, 1880s–2010s.

Publisher: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany

Date: 2019

DOI: 10.5282/RCC/8383

State, scientists and citizens: Conserving Lake Magenta and Dragon Rocks, Western Australia

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing

Date: 2014

DOI: 10.1071/HR14015

Abstract: The story of efforts to establish two major nature reserves in the south-eastern wheatbelt of Western Australia illuminates some of the many factors shaping the interaction of citizens, scientists, land management bureaucracies, and other stakeholders around the creation of conservation reserves in a semi-arid region in the mid-20th century. This article highlights the significance of citizen scientists as well as professionals in the reservation process, and traces the increasingly strained relationship between Lands and conservation bureaucracies in the context of the rise of the new environment movement. It also points to the importance of international ideas about conservation aims and methods, and suggests that although shifting appraisals of the productive potential of the land were critical to the outcome of negotiations over the proposed reserves, in this period these semi-arid lands were increasingly valued for their scientific and intrinsic qualities.

Lawnscaping Perth: Water supply, gardens and scarcity, 1890-1925

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 16-02-2017

DOI: 10.1177/0096144217692991

Abstract: While Perth’s climate has been getting drier for at least four decades, its citizens maintain an ongoing commitment to year-round green lawns and gardens (or “lawnscapes”), and a resistance to water restrictions that is more pronounced than in other Australian state capital cities. This article demonstrates that these features of contemporary Perth emerged from, and continue to bear the imprint of, an earlier socio-natural system that brought together a town water supply, sprinkler technology, plants, and a multidimensional cultural desire for environmental modification. As important markers of civilization and prosperity, Perth’s emergent lawnscapes assuaged colonial anxieties about the settlement’s status. Conspicuously shaped by collective understandings of imperial urban hierarchies, residents’ lawnscaping projects were also driven by their bodily experience of sand, heat, and dust: they were in part a response to the challenge of keeping homes and families clean and cool in a city of hot summers and ubiquitous sand.

Taking Locust Country

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 13-06-2018

DOI: 10.4324/9781351210645-4

Antipodean Eco-nazis? the organic gardening and farming movement and far-right ecology in postwar Australia

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 06-2012

DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2011.640692

Ecological restoration, cultural preferences and the negotiation of 'nativeness' in Australia

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 05-2008

DOI: 10.1016/J.GEOFORUM.2007.05.010

Grappling with ‘nature’ in Australian home gardens 1890-1960

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Date: 02-2018

DOI: 10.3197/096734018X15137949591828

Abstract: The period from 1890 to 1960 in Australia, as elsewhere, is widely acknowledged as pivotal in the development of modernity, involving increasing urbanisation, commodification, nationalism, state power, bureaucratisation, occupational specialisation, technocratic thinking and faith in science. This era ushered in a vastly expanded state infrastructure for environmental management, and saw the rise and fall of progressive conservation activism, as well as precursors to the popular environmentalism emerging in the 1960s. Little, however, is known of how typical middle- and working-class residents of Australian cities and towns understood nature in this period, and how their understandings may have changed in the face of such far-reaching developments. A focus on relationships between people, plants and invertebrates in home garden settings provides one window onto this issue, providing evidence of how those who gardened negotiated a more or less self-conscious engagement with 'nature' in a domestic setting. Close examination of texts produced by and for gardeners suggests that while the dominant social construction of the relationship between nature and humans increasingly emphasised human autonomy and control, the embodied experience of home gardening gave rise to erse understandings. The sense of control and independence that many gardeners had come to expect by the 1950s was challenged by the enduring autonomy of nature, and many gardeners accepted the limitations of their control. Home gardening thus both reflected and challenged prevailing modernist ideas about emancipation from nature.

Environmental transformations

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Date: 05-11-2011

DOI: 10.1017/CHO9781107445758.016

What to call a dog? A review of the common names for Australian free-ranging dogs

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing

Date: 2018

DOI: 10.1071/PC18018

Abstract: Wildlife research is informed by human values and interests, and these are reflected in, and reinforced by, the language used to describe particular species and animals. Examining factors that influence the use of common names of contentious taxa such free-ranging dogs is important, as naming can influence the design and reception of scientific studies. There are a range of common names for free-ranging dogs in Australian scientific literature but the most common names are ‘dingoes’ and ‘wild dogs’. This review investigated influences on the terminology used to describe Australian free-ranging dogs in scientific studies from October 1952 to January 2018. Using a multidimensional scaling analysis, we tested the effects of several potential factors on terminology around Australian free-ranging dogs. We found a significant correlation between studies that reported on ‘wild dog’ control within livestock production–focussed papers and the use of the term ‘dingo’ and discussion of mesopredator release in conservation-related papers. There was a bias associated with author employment, with studies funded by a livestock production organisation more likely to employ ‘wild dog’ terminology. Year of publication and dingo purity within the locale of the study made a lesser contribution to differences in terminology. Our study explores the contextual factors that influence the choice of common names in scientific papers. Although referring to the same species, this review highlights that common terminology within scientific papers is reliant on the discussion of mesopredators release, control programs and the paper’s context.

Every fountain tells a story: histories of civic water in Australia

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-04-2021

DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2020.1871044

Animal husbandry and house wifery? Gender and suburban household food production in Perth and Melbourne, 1890-1950

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 10-2004

DOI: 10.1080/10314610408596287

Frogs and feeling communities

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Date: 02-2022

DOI: 10.3197/096734019X15740974883861

Abstract: This article offers an overview of some approaches from the history of emotions that environmental historians could employ in order to sharpen engagement with emotion, and applies some of these approaches to a long history of human-frog interactions, by way of ex le. We propose that emotions have played a key role in the constitution of human communities, as well as enabling or inhibiting particular kinds of human thoughts and actions in relation with the living planet. In tracing human-frog relations over time we tease apart the complex historic relationships between cultural frameworks, scientific expectations and conventions, and the texts and images emerging from these contexts, which operate explicitly or implicitly to train and discipline the emotional selves of human adults and children.

Doing environmental history in urgent times

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 02-04-2020

DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2020.1758579

Self-sown crops, modernity, and the making of mallee agricultural landscapes

Publisher: Duke University Press

Date: 2017

DOI: 10.3098/AH.2017.091.2.171

Local fisher knowledge reveals changes in size of blue swimmer crabs in small-scale fisheries

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 09-2022

DOI: 10.1016/J.MARPOL.2022.105144

Animal Agendas: Conflict over Productive Animals in Twentieth-Century Australian Cities

Publisher: Brill

Date: 2007

DOI: 10.1163/156853007X169324

Abstract: Over the course of the twentieth century, the number of productive nonhuman animals (livestock and poultry) in Australian cities declined dramatically. This decline resulted—at least in part—from an imaginative geography, in which productive animals were deemed inappropriate occupants of urban spaces. A class-based prioritization of amenity, privacy, order, and the protection of real property values—as well as a gender order within which animal-keeping was not recognized as a legitimate economic activity for women—shaped this imaginative geography of animals that found its most critical expression in local government regulations. However, there were different imaginative geographies among women and men—mostly those from the working class—whose emotional and economic relationships with productive animals led them to advocate for those animals as legitimate and desirable urban inhabitants.

Sustainable Academia: The Responsibilities of Academic Historians in a Climate-Impacted World

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Date: 11-2022

DOI: 10.3197/096734022X16552219786645

Abstract: Environmental degradation is the most serious challenge of the twenty-first century. To date, academic historians, among many others, have failed to fully confront the climate and bio ersity crises, often engaging in disavowal of the problems and our contribution to them in the course of our historical work. This article discusses mitigation efforts underway among other professional bodies, higher education institutions and academic disciplines, before addressing how we might embrace sustainability more meaningfully through our practices. We explain why a focus on decarbonisation is important, canvas the multiple benefits of reducing travel and consider what in iduals and institutions can do to better respond to a crisis that is already with us. Our particular case study is Australia, though the implications of our findings - such as the effects of global heating and environmental destruction - are global.

Wild Harvesting, Self-Sown Crops, and the Ambiguous Modernity of Australian Agriculture

Publisher: Duke University Press

Date: 2019

DOI: 10.3098/AH.2019.093.2.212

Environmental Blockades

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 02-10-2022

DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2022.2119647

“I’ve had dolphins … looking for abalone for me”: Oral history and subjectivities of marine engagement

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 09-2019

DOI: 10.1093/OHR/OHX023

Entangled Nature: The Stirling Range National Park

Publisher: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany

Date: 2017

DOI: 10.5282/RCC/7911

Can environmental history save the world?

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 2008

DOI: 10.2104/HA080003

Regulation, resistance and the residential area: The keeping of productive animals in twentieth‐century Perth, Western Australia

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-1999

DOI: 10.1080/08111149908727786

Landscape Histories: Mapping Environmental and Ecological Change Through the Landscape Art of the Swan River Region of Western Australia

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Date: 05-2008

DOI: 10.3197/096734008X303728

Abstract: What can works of landscape art tell us about past ecologies? This article describes a pilot study in which a method for systematically recording the aesthetic, ecological and environmental content of landscape artworks was investigated. Using database software that allows for the identification and evaluation of relationships between aesthetic criteria (such as style) and environmental content (such as vegetation characteristics), we surveyed landscape artworks of the Swan River region of Western Australia created between 1827 and 1950. The database was first populated with aesthetic and ecological surveys of selected artworks, then the data was analysed in order to identify patterns of ecological change that are readily amenable to historical explanation. The veracity of such explanations was supported by a more fine-grained analysis of a specific site, for which the depiction of the environment in artworks was compared with that in written and photographic sources. Collectively, the artworks appeared to reflect probable changes in the prevalence of large trees and the broad composition of flora, with the site-specific study finding more specific correspondences between artworks and other sources. Although further research is required in order to expand and verify findings, these initial results suggest that there is scope for more extensive use of fine art in the production of the environmental histories and historical ecologies that increasingly inform ecological restoration and management projects.

University Of Western Australia

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Changing Landscapes, Changing People: Australia's Southern Mallee Lands, 1830-2012

Start Date: 2013

End Date: 2015

Funder: Australian Research Council

Establishment Of The Australian Data Archive: An Integrated Research Facility For The Social Sciences And Humanities

Start Date: 2011

End Date: 2011

Funder: Australian Research Council

ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT200100573

Start Date: 08-2021

End Date: 08-2029

Amount: $977,708.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP130102169

Start Date: 02-2013

End Date: 12-2016

Amount: $613,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR200201032

Start Date: 08-2021

End Date: 08-2025

Amount: $241,704.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP210100379

Start Date: 07-2021

End Date: 03-2025

Amount: $395,790.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180100807

Start Date: 04-2018

End Date: 04-2024

Amount: $379,748.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE110100049

Start Date: 05-2011

End Date: 12-2012

Amount: $600,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354620

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2004

Amount: $10,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council