Overview
The author, Margaret Somerville, collected the insights contained within the present volume over a year of walking the ridge daily, linking globally significant scientific findings on the origins and deep time evolution of landscapes and living things to her own intensely observed, embodied interactions with rocks, trees, plants, birds, weather and the seasons, informed by decades of work with Indigenous researchers. It draws on the formation of Gondwana Land and how the planet came to be when life emerged from the sea and trees in symbiosis with fungi. The Gondwana forests contained the oldest trees and plants on the planet and the first song birds in the world that are said to be the beginning of music and song. It also addresses seasonal change. This book is a valuable resource for any course that aims to address global issues and bring hope to the global movement of young people facing climate change in their local places.
Full Product Details
Author: Margaret Somerville
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781036407995
ISBN 10: 1036407993
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 23 July 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""The book is a poignant account that offers Margaret's unique perspective and experience of the world in all its multiplicities, hardships, and joys, and it is a beautiful acknowledgement of everything she has learned from her Aboriginal friends over many, many years. It is a collage of 'embodied memories' that truly reflects that 'we are all in this together'.""Dr Sarah Powell (FHEA)Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts (Music/Movement) at Macquarie University, Australia""[The work is] one of the best anthropologically informed oral histories ever produced in Australia…It is this sense of celebrating difference that makes [it] so distinctively contemporary.""Paul CarterThe Age Monthly Review
'The book is a poignant account that offers Margaret's unique perspec-tive and experience of the world in all its multiplicities, hardships, and joys, and it is a beautiful acknowledgement of everything she has learned from her Aboriginal friends over many, many years. It is a collage of 'em-bodied memories' that truly reflects that 'we are all in this together'.'Dr Sarah Powell (FHEA)Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts (Music/Movement) at Macquarie Univer-sity, Australia'[The book is] one of the best anthropologically informed oral histories ever produced in Australia…It is this sense of celebrating difference that makes [it] so distinctively contemporary.'Paul CarterThe Age Monthly Review
Author Information
Margaret Somerville is Professor of Education at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is a leading researcher in place-based and sustainability education, and has collaborated with Australian Aboriginal communities to revitalise language and cultural practices. She has produced 11 books, 33 book chapters, 54 refereed articles, 12 conference presentations, 18 reports, educational materials and four art exhibitions. Her most recent publications include Riverlands of the Anthropocene: Walking our Waterways as Places of Becoming and 'Walking contemporary Indigenous songlines as public pedagogies of Country' in the Journal of Public Pedagogies.
