ISBN:
9783319637723
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (338 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Holmes, Katie Telling Environmental Histories : Intersections of Memory, Narrative and Environment
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Environmentalism-History
;
Human ecology-History
Abstract:
Intro -- Telling Environmental Histories -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Telling Environmental Histories -- Bibliography -- Part I Rivers -- Chapter 2 Rivers, Memory and Migrancy: Everyday Place-Making in Changing Environments -- Aboriginal People on the Upper Darling Rivers -- Vietnamese Australians on the Georges River -- Bangladeshis in South-Western Sydney -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 "Dancing to the Billabong's Tune": Oral History in the Environmental Histories of Murray-Darling Basin Rivers -- Finding Fishers to Talk Fish -- Alien Fish -- Intergenerational Teaching and Learning -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 River of Many Voices: Oral and Environmental Histories of the Severn -- Environmental History and Oral History -- Oral History and Aural Environments -- The 'Muddy Brothers': A Group Interview -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II De/Industrialisation -- Chapter 5 Industrial Remains: Community Narratives of Mashapaug Pond in Providence, Rhode Island -- A Polluted Past -- Oral History and Community Memory -- Sifting for Meaning -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Building a Safe Space for Unsafe Memories: The Remember Bhopal Museum -- Re-framing the Indian Museum -- Remember Bhopal Museum-The Context -- Other Acts of Commemoration -- Inclusion by Restoring Voice -- Upending the Primacy of the Object -- In the Beginning, There Was an Object. Or a Story? Or a Person? -- Oral History-Challenges -- Script-like Memories -- Unmediated Space -- References -- Chapter 7 Stories of Life, Work and Nature Before and After the Clean-up of North-East England's River Tyne, 1940-2015 -- Pre-clean up Stories -- Post-clean-up Stories -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
Abstract:
Chapter 8 The Deindustrialisation of Our Senses: Residual and Dominant Soundscapes in Montreal's Point Saint-Charles District -- The Working-Class Neighbourhood -- From Industrial Sound to Noise Pollution -- The Vernacular Geography of Place -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part III Living with Environmental Change -- Chapter 9 "Another Weed Will Come Along": Attitudes to Weeds, Land and Community in the Victorian Mallee -- Methodology -- Human Persistence -- Science to the Rescue -- There Has to Be Limits -- Internal Landscapes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 Famine and Elephants: Remembering Place-Making Along Travancore's Forest Fringe -- Methods -- Setting the Context: A Forgotten Famine and a Faraway War -- The Anguish of Departure -- The Enigma of Arrival -- The Garden of Earthly Delights (and Dangers) -- The Persistence of Memory -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 Hearing the Legacy in the Forecast: Living with Stories of the Australian Climate -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12 "It's the Devil You Know": Environmental Stories from the Victorian Mallee -- The Mallee Environmental Story -- Genealogical Landscapes -- Becoming a Mallee Farmer -- Farming for the Future -- Two Mallees -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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