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I'm a graphics designer who loves creating amazing visuals for your needs. Photo retouch, Background removal, Clipping path, you name it, I can do it. I have worked with different clients and industries, and I always deliver quality work on time. You can see my portfolio on my website If you want to work with me, just drop me a message. I can't wait to hear from you and start your next design project.
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Partners Will Smith and James Anthony Denied Marriage License

Partners James Anthony and Will Smith recorded their denial of a marriage license. In the video, ... more

Persuasion without policies: The work of reviving Indigenous peoples’ fire management in southern Australia

Geoforum, 2021

Abstract Catastrophic and unprecedented wildfires have unfolded across fire-prone landscapes glob... more Abstract Catastrophic and unprecedented wildfires have unfolded across fire-prone landscapes globally over the last three years, with highly publicized loss of human life, property destruction and ecological transformation. Indigenous peoples within many nations have persuasively argued that traditional fire management can enhance existing wildfire mitigation strategies. However, there are considerable barriers to the further incorporation of Indigenous practices into existing wildfire policy. This paper explores the potential of Indigenous fire management to achieve broader institutionalization, emphasizing the social labour involved producing and sustaining intercultural collaboration in bureaucratic contexts. Our focus is southern Australia where Indigenous peoples' fire management, often termed 'cultural burning', has been facilitated by an Indigenous-led social movement and growing state support. We draw on interviews conducted with Aboriginal and white land and hazard management practitioners actively engaged in intercultural fire management collaborations largely occurring on public lands. In the absence of institutional clarity, established networks and accreted experience these practitioners work to generate enthusiasm, stabilise Aboriginal peoples' environmental authority and nullify pervasive societal fears surrounding the risk of fire. The case study demonstrates the significance of interpersonal factors in the emergence and maintenance of fraught intercultural collaborations. Despite global optimism, such insights highlight how the revival of Indigenous fire management in nations such as Australia is highly contingent and depends upon routine persuasive labour and fragile intercultural diplomacy.

Introduction: An Elemental Anthropocene

Cultural Studies Review, 2019

were divided into four curriculum streams based around different elemental themes: earth, fire, w... more were divided into four curriculum streams based around different elemental themes: earth, fire, water, and air/flesh. Participants were allotted two streams to follow through the first two days, encountering these classical elements in new and familiar contexts under the guidance of stream leaders. They imagined 'water flourishing' with and without the Anthropos. 1 They spent time with pyrophilic trees in landscapes engineered by private consultants for 'climate resilience'. Some participants visited Melbourne Water's Western Treatment Plant, also known as 'the poo farm', to encounter novel strata stockpiled from over a century of urban dwelling and consumption. Others went to the city's Royal Botanical Gardens, learning about plants that have been fostered by Aboriginal peoples for tens of millennia and plants that are being fostered for the climates ahead. Throughout the event, participants were encouraged to 'stay with the trouble' of their specific material surrounds. 2 There are other biographical stories to tell. Several of the organisers behind this experiment had first met at the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia held at Drexel University in October 2017, which itself had personal links and common personnel to the Anthropocene Campus events that took place in Berlin in 2014 and 2016. 3 At the same time, many networks were DECLARATION OF CONFLICTING INTEREST The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. FUNDING The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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