Landscapes of Culture and Nature

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Quaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind Meet

   1. Quaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind Meet

      • Rod Giblett

      Pages 1-14

3. Uncanny

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-16

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   2. Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny

      • Rod Giblett

      Pages 17-35

   3. The Nether World of the Uncanny City of Dreadful Night

      • Rod Giblett

      Pages 36-54

4. World War S(ub)lime

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-58

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   2. Earth and Water in the Slime of World War I Trench Warfare

      • Rod Giblett

      Pages 59-68

   3. Fire and Air in the Sublime Bombing of World War II Aerial Warfare

      • Rod Giblett

      Pages 69-85

5. Photographic Sublime and Uncanny

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-88

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   2. Wilderness to Wasteland: The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Uncanny in the Photography of the American West

      • Rod Giblett

      Pages 89-105

   3. Shooting the Sunburnt Country, the Land of Sweeping Plains, the Rugged Mountain Ranges: The Role of Australian Landscape and Wilderness Photography in Promoting Environmental Sustainability and in Forming a New National Identity

      • Rod Giblett

      Pages 106-121

6. Mindscapes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Land Health and Mental Health: A New Field for Research Nurturing Biodiversity and Well-Being on Farms

      • Rod Giblett

      Pages 125-137

   3. Terrifying Prospects and Resources of Hope: Minescapes, Timescapes and the Aesthetics of the Future

      • Rod Giblett

      Pages 138-154

7. Water Bodies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-156

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   2. A Natural History of Natural, Unnatural and National Disasters

      • Rod Giblett

      Pages 157-173

   3. Black and White Water: Cross-Cultural Colour-Coding of the Life-Blood of the Earth-Body

      • Rod Giblett

      Pages 174-189

8. Back Matter

   Pages 190-205

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A bold and exciting exploration of the relationship and interactions between humans, the human landscape and the earth, looking at a diverse range of case studies from the nineteenth-century city to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.

• Australia
• biodiversity
• culture
• health
• history
• interaction
• Nation
• nature
• photography
• Tsunami
• World War II

ROD GIBLETT is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He is the author of Sublime Communication Technologies and The Body of Nature and Culture (both published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

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