Wetlands and Western Cultures

Wetlands and Western Cultures is a visceral and imaginative foray into the connectivities between landscape and human civilization across time. Rod Giblett gracefully traces our collective changing attitudes toward, and appropriation of, wetland ecosystems from ‘drain and reclaim’ narratives to a growing awareness of the necessity of embedding wetlands within sustainable and regenerative futures. This beautifully sculpted work serves as a reminder of the intractable relationship which exists between nature and culture with humans acting as both conduit and fabricator. -- Mary Gearey, University of Brighton
In Wetlands and Western Cultures,Giblett builds on his classic Postmodern Wetlands, diving deep into the black living water of wetlands—past and present, cultural and ecological—to account for their settler denigration and destruction and learn from currents of resistance. A marriage of scholarly intervention and activist intent, it is a work for all those who wonder at the widespread neglect of these crucial ecological zones. -- Andrea Gaynor, The University of Western Australia