Alliances in the Anthropocene: Fire, Plants, and People

Eriksen, Christine; Ballard, Susan (2020). Alliances in the Anthropocene: Fire, Plants, and People. Singapore: Springer 10.1007/978-981-15-2533-9

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This book explores how fire, plants and people coexist in the Anthropocene. In a time of dramatic environmental transformation, the authors examine how human impacts on the planetary system are being felt at all levels from the geological and the arboreal to the atmospheric. The book brings together the disciplines of human geography and art history to examine fire-plant-people alliances and multispecies world-making. The authors listen carefully to the narratives of bushfire survivors. They embrace the responses of contemporary artists, as practice becomes interwoven with fire as well as ruin and regrowth. Through visual, textual and felt ways of being, the chapters illuminate, illustrate, impress and imprint the imagined and actual agency of plants and people within a changing climate — from Aboriginal ecocultural burning to nuclear fire. By holding grief and enacting hope, the book shows how relationships come to be and are likely to change due to the interdependencies of fire, plants and people in the Anthropocene.

Item Type:	Book (Monograph)
Division/Institute:	08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Human Geography 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography
UniBE Contributor:	Eriksen, Christine
Subjects:	900 History > 910 Geography & travel
ISBN:	978-981-15-2532-2
Publisher:	Springer
Language:	English
Submitter:	Prof Dr Christine Eriksen
Date Deposited:	30 Aug 2023 14:15
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2024 13:07
Publisher DOI:	10.1007/978-981-15-2533-9
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/185828