Abstract The transnational connections of citrus growing in the Riverland of South Australia helped to shape the development and dominance of citriculture over other kinds of horticulture in the region. Established with settler-colonial closer settlement ideologies, as the twentieth century progressed and irrigation areas expanded, citrus growers made use of increasing access to global networksContinue reading “Orange World: Transnational Knowledge and the Riverland”
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Arid Oasis: Citrus Growing and Policy Challenges in the Murray Valley, 1965-1971
On citrus orchards in the Riverland (South Australia) in the late 1960s salinity caused trees to defoliate, decreased, fruit yields and decreased farm income. Industry newsletters and newspaper reports reveal the narratives through which growers understood these unwelcome changes on their farms. Salinity was experienced as both a chronic and a crisis situation by citrusContinue reading “Arid Oasis: Citrus Growing and Policy Challenges in the Murray Valley, 1965-1971“
Growth and lockdown
Today one of my co-supervisors emailed me and mentioned that we have reached a milestone: those of us who live in Naarm/Melbourne have had 200 days of being in lockdown.
Thinking about fields and embodied work.
I came into the field of environmental history with a background in anthropology. One of the things that really hooked me in to environmental history as opposed to more generalist approaches was the sense of boundary blurring that environmental history inhabits. There’s a tension in trying to do history from a perspective that doesn’t easilyContinue reading “Thinking about fields and embodied work.”
Amanda Wells 