Dingo Makes Us Human by Deborah Bird Rose

Dingo Makes Us Human by Deborah Bird Rose

This original ethnography brings indigenous people's stories into conversations around troubling questions of social justice and environmental care. Deborah Bird Rose lived for two years with the Yarralin community in the Northern Territory's remote Victoria River Valley. Her engagement with the people's stories and their action in the world leads her to this analysis of a multi-centred poetics of life and land. The book speaks to issues that are of immediate and broad concern today: traditional ecological knowledge, kinship between humans and other living things, colonising history, environmental history, and sacred geography. Now in paperback, this award-winning exploration of the Yarralin people is available to a whole new readership. The boldly direct and personal approach will be illuminating and accessible to general readers, while also of great value to experienced anthropologists.

Katherine Gibson is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney and co-founder with Julie Graham of the Community Economies Collective. She is an economic geographer with an international reputation for innovative research on economic transformation and over 30 years' experience of working with communities to build resilient economies. As J.K.Gibson-Graham, the collective authorial presence she shares with the late Julie Graham (Professor of Geography, University of Massachusetts Amherst), her books include The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Blackwell 1996; University of Minnesota, 2006), A Postcapitalist Politics (University of Minnesota, 2006) and Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities, co-authored with Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy (University of Minnesota, 2013). Her work has been taken up by communities around the world to help them revision and enact economies which sustain people and environments by putting ethical concerns at the centre of negotiation about collective futures.

Deborah Bird Rose is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and a founding co-editor of Environmental Humanities. Her current research interests focus on human-animal relationships in this time of extinctions, and she writes widely in both academic and literary genres. Her most recent book is Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction (University of Virginia, 2011). Others major books include the re-released second edition of Country of the Heart: An Indigenous Australian Homeland (2011), the third edition of the prize-winning ethnography Dingo Makes Us Human (2009), Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation (2004), and Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal views of Landscape and Wilderness (1996). She is an adjunct Professor in the University of New South Wales Environmental Humanities program, and author of the popular website 'Life at the Edge of Extinction.'

Ruth Fincher is a Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne. An urban and social geographer, her research interests are in the politics of difference in cities and the role of institutions in influencing urban lives and places. Together with Kurt Iveson, she recently wrote Planning and Diversity in the City: Redistribution, Recognition and Encounter (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

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ISBN 13	9780521794848
ISBN 10	0521794846
Title	Dingo Makes Us Human
Author	Deborah Bird Rose
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2000-08-28
Number of pages	264
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