Wetland Cultures in Australia: Living Black Waters
Jun 2026 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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This book engages in critical cross-cultural dialogue for the decolonization and conservation of wetlands in Australia. It is the first book to present studies of wetland cultures on a comprehensive, state-by-state basis across Australia from north to south, east to west and within Aboriginal, colonial and postcolonial cultures and histories. It considers the material and physical aspects of wetlands, including the culture of their cultivation and consumption by Aboriginal people and their denigration and destruction, or aestheticization and embankment, by colonists. It shows that Aboriginal peoples used and still use land, water and tools to cultivate wetlands, as the basis for their civilizations and as indicators of ownership of the land in widely separated places in Australia. It argues that the Native Title Act should be amended and extended to include Aboriginal agriculture and paludiculture as tests. Wetland cultures in Australia are major and crucial points of cultural difference.
This book engages in critical cross-cultural dialogue for the decolonization and conservation of wetlands in Australia. It is the first book to present studies of wetland cultures on a comprehensive, state-by-state basis across Australia from north to south, east to west and within Aboriginal, co...
About the author
Rod Giblett is the author of more than 30 books of fiction and faction (‘non-fiction’) published over the past 30 years, including recently Wetland cultures: ancient, traditional, contemporary (2024). He lived by a wetland in Western Australia for 28 years that he called ‘Black Swan Lake’ and wrote several books about it. He now lives in Melbourne and wrote about it and its wetlands in several books. He is the founder of wetland cultural studies, psychoanalytic ecology, conservation counter-theology, and Thoreau and Benjamin studies. He is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Writing and Literature Program, Deakin University, Australia.
Rod Giblett is the author of more than 30 books of fiction and faction (‘non-fiction’) published over the past 30 years, including recently Wetland cultures: ancient, traditional, contemporary (2024). He lived by a wetland in Western Australia for 28 years that he called ‘Black Swan Lake’ and wro...
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