This unit addresses the complex interrelation between human society and the environment. It engages with Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of seeing, understanding and using the land, probing the relationship between land, belonging and identity over Australia's history. It explores Indigenous land management techniques, the impacts of white settlement, the influence of the Enlightenment, and the rise of urbanisation, probing attitudes towards the environment at each point . It engages with debates including conservation and the environmental movement, Indigenous land rights and climate change. It challenges students to develop their own frameworks for understanding the environment today. -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Bruce Scates
