Rupturing the Western concept of wilderness: Restoring human relationships with place and nature

Lorina L Barker

doi:10.4324/9780429299025-20

Rupturing the Western concept of wilderness: Restoring human relationships with place and nature

Lorina L Barker

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The clouded lens of 'the colonial gaze' deemed the Australian landscape an empty wilderness needing to be broken and subdued, to civilise it. The Australian Bushfire season of 2019–2020 has reignited interest in cultural burning practices but otherwise the colonisers continue to ignore the millennia-long knowledge system of Aboriginal people that connects us with Country, through kinship. This chapter ruptures the Western concept of wilderness to restore the symbiotic human relationships with place and nature, reframing and recontextualising colonial imagery and language. In particular it recognises place agency and sentience, and acknowledges the legacy and trauma of removal from Country, not least because of the immediate global catastrophe of COVID-19.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence
Editors	Robyn Bartel, Marty Branagan, Fiona Utley, Stephen Harris
Place of Publication	London, United Kingdom
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	274-283
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9780429299025, 9780367279851
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429299025-20
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Barker, L. L. (2021). Rupturing the Western concept of wilderness: Restoring human relationships with place and nature. In R. Bartel, M. Branagan, F. Utley, & S. Harris (Eds.), Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence (1 ed., pp. 274-283). (Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429299025-20

Barker, Lorina L. / Rupturing the Western concept of wilderness : Restoring human relationships with place and nature. Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence. editor / Robyn Bartel ; Marty Branagan ; Fiona Utley ; Stephen Harris. 1. ed. London, United Kingdom : Routledge, 2021. pp. 274-283 (Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment).

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Barker, LL 2021, Rupturing the Western concept of wilderness: Restoring human relationships with place and nature. in R Bartel, M Branagan, F Utley & S Harris (eds), Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence. 1 edn, Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment, Routledge, London, United Kingdom, pp. 274-283. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429299025-20

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Barker LL. Rupturing the Western concept of wilderness: Restoring human relationships with place and nature. In Bartel R, Branagan M, Utley F, Harris S, editors, Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence. 1 ed. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2021. p. 274-283. (Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment). Epub 2020 Oct 29. doi: 10.4324/9780429299025-20

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