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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Bird-watching with Elizabeth Gould at Bowra Conservation Sanctuary
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'Abstract: Habitats are often defined by dominant features, be they related to geomorphology, climatic conditions, striking land formations or ubiquitous plant species. In Australia's semi-arid regions, mulga is a helpful concept for thinking about the nuances of this beguilingly stabile country, which seems to best connote the desiccated landscape. The word has an ancient lineage, traced to the central west, an Aboriginal term for a small flat shield, a weapon traditionally fashioned from mulga timbers. To many, 'mulga' means desert, wilderness, a place one can disappear, going 'up the mulga'. Mulga is also the common name of many of the animals that inhabit the region. There are mulga snakes, for instance, huge brown scaly ropes that snooze inside piles of greying lumber; and the mulga parrot, Psephotus varius, or many coloured parrot.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon PAN Emotional Practices / Geographical Perspectives no. 12 2016 10647443 2016 periodical issue

    'This special double issue of PAN: Philosophy, Activism, Nature invited authors to curate an essay on the theme of place. The aim was to open up a dialogue between contributors from a multitude of disciplines, making space for analytical, creative, structured, argumentative, open, discursive and ruminative reflections fuelled by creativity and lived experiences. To curate is to take care (L. curare). In our view, the coming together of the manifold kinds of biotic and abiotic existence that are familiar through the medium of subjective human experience—and its literary and essayistic modes of representation—collectively produces notions of the ever-unfolding and plural becomings of 'place'. Place is both the site of and active agent in diverse subjective experience of space, which we have brought into conversation in PAN12. Locating residual ethical contours in the essayistic, photographic, lyrical and narrative modes, and disclosing affective insights in their analysis and critique, these essays of caring can be understood as forms of emotional practice, which we have brought together into three loose clusters, named 'dialogue', 'response' and 'exegesis'. ' (Introduction)

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  • Bowral, Mittagong - Bowral area, Southern Highlands - Southern Tablelands, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,
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