Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Wildflowering Culture : Kathleen McArthur and Creating a Popular Wildflower Consciousness
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'Changing people’s hearts and minds requires courage, conviction and creativity. To change attitudes and reach the public consciousness, a diverse range of communicative and cultural tools need to be employed. Australian artist and conservationist Kathleen McArthur rose to the challenge using all the forms that were available to her. Working with others such as renowned poet Judith Wright, she sought to change the way Australians regarded our native plants and landscapes. Kathleen understood that to protect the precious environments that remained would require reaching out to ordinary Australians. Therefore, she utilized a suite of arts and communication forms, ranging from postcard campaigns to weekly newspaper columns, public talks, slide presentations, paintings, exhibitions and published books. Inspired by natural forms and utilizing cultural forms, McArthur was able to promote a form of ‘nature culture’ and public consciousness to protect and promote the nature that she loved.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Australasian Journal of Popular Culture vol. 9 no. 1 1 March 2020 19653836 2020 periodical issue 'This issue has certainly been produced under extraordinary circumstances. Many in the world are seeking shelter from the COVID-19 virus in their homes and learning new ways of working, and living, with limited social contact or time outside. Academics are teaching and researching online from home, and their children are learning at home. The editors of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture have been in home isolation for some weeks now, with a blanket stay-at-home lockdown in New Zealand, and an only slightly less stringent order to similarly socially distance and isolate at home operational in Australia. In both countries, borders have been closed to international travellers with a strict quarantine regime enforced for nationals returning home. The global news industry and social media channels have broadcast inspiring stories of heroics and resilience as well as those of idiocy and the worst of human behaviour.' (Donna Lee Brien and Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Editorial introduction) 2020 pg. 67-82
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