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0000-0003-4238-2353
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University of Melbourne
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Human Geography | Historical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Human Geography Not Elsewhere Classified | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Social and Cultural Geography | Historical Studies not elsewhere classified | Biogeography | Natural Resource Management |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Studies in human society | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Forest and Woodlands Environments | Other | Control of Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Control of pests and exotic species | Biological sciences | Environmental and resource evaluation not elsewhere classified
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Publications
Living with Alien invasives
Publisher: OpenEdition
Date: 2009
The political ecology of weeds: A scalar approach to landscape transformations
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 28-08-2015
Acacia exchanges: Wattles, thorn trees, and the study of plant movements
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2008
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) (Directed by Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore, Paramount Pictures, USA): Review Symposium
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-05-2009
Living with Invasive Plants in the Anthropocene: The Importance of Understanding Practice and Experience
Publisher: Medknow
Date: 2015
Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 04-2001
DOI: 10.2307/3594064
Indigenous peoples and forest management: Comparative analysis of institutional approaches in Australia and India
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2001
Chance long-distance or human-mediated dispersal? HowAcacia s.l. farnesianaattained its pan-tropical distribution
Publisher: The Royal Society
Date: 04-2017
DOI: 10.1098/RSOS.170105
Abstract: Acacia s.l. farnesiana , which originates from Mesoamerica, is the most widely distributed Acacia s.l. species across the tropics. It is assumed that the plant was transferred across the Atlantic to southern Europe by Spanish explorers, and then spread across the Old World tropics through a combination of chance long-distance and human-mediated dispersal. Our study uses genetic analysis and information from historical sources to test the relative roles of chance and human-mediated dispersal in its distribution. The results confirm the Mesoamerican origins of the plant and show three patterns of human-mediated dispersal. S les from Spain showed greater genetic ersity than those from other Old World tropics, suggesting more instances of transatlantic introductions from the Americas to that country than to other parts of Africa and Asia. In iduals from the Philippines matched a population from South Central Mexico and were likely to have been direct, trans-Pacific introductions. Australian s les were genetically unique, indicating that the arrival of the species in the continent was independent of these European colonial activities. This suggests the possibility of pre-European human-mediated dispersal across the Pacific Ocean. These significant findings raise new questions for biogeographic studies that assume chance or transoceanic dispersal for disjunct plant distributions.
Contested boundaries: state policies, forest classifications, and deforestation in the Garhwal Himalayas
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-1995
Multifunctional, scrubby, and invasive forests? Wattles in the highlands of Madagascar
Publisher: International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University
Date: 08-2007
DOI: 10.1659/MRD.0864
Plantas exóticas invasoras e instrumentos de gestão territorial. O caso paradigmático do género Acacia em Portugal
Publisher: CEGOT - Center of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning
Date: 12-2013
A native at home and abroad: The history, politics, ethics and aesthetics of acacias
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-08-2011
Genetic diversity and biogeography of the boab Adansonia gregorii (Malvaceae: Bombacoideae)
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1071/BT13209
Abstract: The Kimberley region of Western Australia is recognised for its high bio ersity and many endemic species, including the charismatic boab tree, Adansonia gregorii F.Muell. (Malvaceae: Bombacoideae). In order to assess the effects of biogeographic barriers on A. gregorii, we examined the genetic ersity and population structure of the tree species across its range in the Kimberley and adjacent areas to the east. Genetic variation at six microsatellite loci in 220 in iduals from the entire species range was examined. Five weakly ergent populations, separated by west–east and coast–inland ides, were distinguished using spatial principal components analysis. However, the predominant pattern was low geographic structure and high gene flow. Coalescent analysis detected a population bottleneck and significant gene flow across these inferred biogeographic ides. Climate cycles and coastline changes following the last glacial maximum are implicated in decreases in ancient A. gregorii population size. Of all the potential gene flow vectors, various macropod species and humans are the most likely.
Forest plantations, water availability, and regional climate change: controversies surrounding Acacia mearnsii plantations in the upper Palnis Hills, southern India
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-09-2009
From killing lists to healthy country: Aboriginal approaches to weed control in the Kimberley, Western Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2018.06.050
Abstract: The Australian Government's funding of land management by Aboriginal communities aims to enable them to manage natural and cultural resources according to their values and aspirations. But this approach is countered in the case of weed management, where the emphasis is on killing plants that are identified on invasive alien species lists prepared by government agencies. Based on field research with Bardi-Jawi, Bunuba, Ngurrara, Nyikina Mangala and Wunggurr land managers in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, we observed that 27 of 35 weed control projects followed the government agency weed lists for species-led control. Of these 27 projects, only two were considered successful in meeting Aboriginal cultural aspirations. In most of the other cases, the list-based approach generated frustration among Aboriginal rangers who felt they were engaged in purposeless killing. In contrast, we found that elders and rangers preferred site-based approaches that considered landscape and vegetation management from their culturally specific and highly contextual geographies of 'healthy country'. We outline instances where ranger groups have adopted site-based management that has been informed by geographies of healthy country and argue that such an approach offers a better alternative to current list-based weed control and produces positive outcomes for Aboriginal communities.
Hybrid improved tree fallows: Harnessing invasive woody legumes for agroforestry
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-02-2012
Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 04-2002
DOI: 10.2307/3985702
Late Quaternary changes in climate and land cover in the Northern Horn of Africa and adjacent areas
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2017
Towards a New Biogeographical and Economic History of the Indian Ocean World
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 03-2020
Elusive Traces: Baobabs and the African Diaspora in South Asia
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 02-2015
DOI: 10.3197/096734015X14183179969827
Abstract: The history of botanical exchanges between Africa and the Indian subcontinent reaches back in time over 5,000 years. Recent advances in archaeobotany have revealed these connections through evidence of food crops of African origin found at various archaeological sites in the subcontinent. However, little is known about the people that brought the crops to these places and other parts of the Indian Ocean world. This is also the case with other plants from Africa such as the charismatic baobab tree ( Adansonia digitata L. ) that appears to have had a longstanding presence in South Asia. Most scholarly accounts assume that 'Arab traders' were responsible for introducing baobabs to this region but do not offer any reasons for their doing so. Few scholars, if any, have sought to relate the dispersal of baobabs with the history of African migrations to the region. This paper reveals the elusive traces of their entwined environmental histories by linking baobab genetics with historical accounts and cultural evidence of the presence of African diasporic communities in South Asia.
Property vs. Control: The State and Forest Management in the Indian Himalaya
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 1997
The Chipko Movement: A People's History
Publisher: Medknow
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.4103/CS.CS_150_21
In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India. By Alpa Shah. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. xiii, 273 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 08-2011
Correction: New genetic and linguistic analyses show ancient human influence on baobab evolution and distribution in Australia
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 27-04-2015
The history of introduction of the African baobab (Adansonia digitata, Malvaceae: Bombacoideae) in the Indian subcontinent
Publisher: The Royal Society
Date: 09-2015
DOI: 10.1098/RSOS.150370
Abstract: To investigate the pathways of introduction of the African baobab, Adansonia digitata , to the Indian subcontinent, we examined 10 microsatellite loci in in iduals from Africa, India, the Mascarenes and Malaysia, and matched this with historical evidence of human interactions between source and destination regions. Genetic analysis showed broad congruence of African clusters with biogeographic regions except along the Zambezi (Mozambique) and Kilwa (Tanzania), where populations included a mixture of in iduals assigned to at least two different clusters. In iduals from West Africa, the Mascarenes, southeast India and Malaysia shared a cluster. Baobabs from western and central India clustered separately from Africa. Genetic ersity was lower in populations from the Indian subcontinent than in African populations, but the former contained private alleles. Phylogenetic analysis showed Indian populations were closest to those from the Mombasa-Dar es Salaam coast. The genetic results provide evidence of multiple introductions of African baobabs to the Indian subcontinent over a longer time period than previously assumed. In iduals belonging to different genetic clusters in Zambezi and Kilwa may reflect the history of trafficking captives from inland areas to supply the slave trade between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Baobabs in the Mascarenes, southeast India and Malaysia indicate introduction from West Africa through eighteenth and nineteenth century European colonial networks.
Gender, Traditional Authority, and the Politics of Rural Reform in South Africa
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2002
Threatening dystopias: The global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh. By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2021. p. 267 including front matter, appendices, glossary, bibliographical references, and index
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-10-2023
Decolonisation, knowledge production, and interests in liberal higher education
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-09-2022
Abstract: This essay explores how calls for decolonisation in universities have engaged with ideas about liberalism and liberal education. It maps the historical context of liberal education as embodied in the development of modern European universities and colonial interests in their respective nation‐states. It offers comparative perspectives on how ideas of decolonisation in higher education have confronted liberal and nation‐state interests at different historical conjunctures in three postcolonial settings: in the establishment of a national university in India during the 1960s in protests by university students in postapartheid South Africa between 2015 and 2017 and in growing commitments to Indigenous recognition and knowledges in Australian universities from the 2000s. The essay highlights the need for those active in contemporary decolonisation movements in universities in the global North and South to confront the paradoxical interests of liberal education and nationalisms in knowledge production, epistemic and socio‐economic justice, and sociality in higher education. Despite enthusiasm about decolonisation in/of academic debates, few have sought to critically analyse its relationship to ideas of liberalism and liberal education in universities. This essay considers how ideas of decolonisation in higher education have confronted liberal and nation‐state interests at different historical moments in India, South Africa, and Australia. The essay highlights the need to confront the paradoxical interests of liberal education and nationalisms in knowledge production, epistemic and socio‐economic justice, and sociality in higher education.
Situating African Agency in Environmental History
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 02-2015
Food traditions and landscape histories of the indian ocean world: Theoretical and methodological reflections
Publisher: White Horse Press
Date: 02-2015
DOI: 10.3197/096734015X14183179969863
Abstract: Environmental histories of plant exchanges have largely centred on their economic importance in international trade and on their ecological and social impacts in the places where they were introduced. Yet few studies have attempted to examine how plants brought from elsewhere become incorporated over time into the regional cultures of material life and agricultural landscapes. This essay considers the theoretical and methodological problems in investigating the environmental history, ersity and distribution of food plants transferred across the Indian Ocean over several millennia. It brings together concepts of creolisation, syncretism, and hybridity to outline a framework for understanding how biotic exchanges and diffusions have been translated into regional landscape histories through food traditions, ritual practices and articulation of cultural identity. We use the banana plant - which underwent early domestication across New Guinea, South-east Asia and peninsular India and reached East Africa roughly two thousand years ago - as an ex le for illustrating the erse patterns of incorporation into the cultural symbolism, material life and regional landscapes of the Indian Ocean World. We show that this cultural evolutionary approach allows new historical insights to emerge and enriches ongoing debates regarding the antiquity of the plant's diffusion from South-east Asia to Africa.
What makes ecology 'political'?: Rethinking 'scale' in political ecology
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2009
Abstract: This essay explores the ways in which concepts of `scale' are deployed in political ecology to explain the outcomes of ecological and social change. It argues that political ecologists need to pay closer attention to how scale is produced and used to interpret the experience of spatiotemporal difference and change so as to make ecology the object of politics, policy-making and political action. It outlines an alternative approach that focuses on how three moments of action — operation, observation, and interpretation — work together to produce scale as a configuration and range of values that articulate differential sensibilities and political differences regarding changes to socialized landscapes. The essay uses ex les from studies of plant movements to illustrate how scope and scale combine to `enframe' and interpret ecological and related social change as `disruption' to places, regional `transformation', or as regionalized `evolution'.
Adoption, use and perception of Australian acacias around the world
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-08-2011
New genetic and linguistic analyses show ancient human influence on baobab evolution and distribution in Australia
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 04-2015
Environmental History of Botanical Exchanges in the Indian Ocean World
Publisher: White Horse Press
Date: 08-2012
DOI: 10.3197/096734012X13400389809256
Abstract: Much of the environmental history literature on plant transfers has centred on European agency and on the effects on both Old and New Worlds colonised and inhabited by European powers over the past five centuries. The emphasis on European agency obscures, or erts attention from, prehistoric botanical exchanges, i.e., plants transferred by human agency from one region to another thousands of years ago. While these exchanges may not have constituted 'ecological imperialism' the plants transferred nevertheless had significant impacts on the landscapes and societies they entered and in which they became established. This paper focuses on food crop exchanges in the Indian Ocean World. It draws on recent interdisciplinary research in archaeobotany and palaeoclimatic studies to illustrate the plant transfers that took place between eastern Africa, southern Asia and mainland and Island Southeast Asia between 2500 BCE and 100 CE and to explore how these arrivals may have transformed host societies and environments.
The Politics of Localization: From Depoliticizing Development to Politicizing Democracy
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2008
Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India. By Sharad Chari
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-02-2005
‘Development’ in Question
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2008
State economic policies and changing regional landscapes in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, 1818–1947
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2012
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Long-term Agroecological Histories Of Small Tropical Island Complexes Of The Indian Ocean World
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End Date: 2022
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Start Date: 03-2010
End Date: 05-2015
Amount: $452,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Start Date: 01-2006
End Date: 02-2010
Amount: $160,000.00
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End Date: 03-2019
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