Description
Combining memoir and studies in the Environmental Humanities, Black Swan Song weaves together an autobiographically-based account of the unique life and work of Rod Giblett. For over 25 years he was a leading local wetland conservationist, environmental activist, and pioneer transdisciplinary researcher and writer of fiction and non-fiction. He has researched, written, and published more than 25 books in the environmental humanities, especially wetland cultural studies, and psychoanalytic ecology. Black Swan Song traces Rod’s early and later life and work from being born in Borneo as the child of Christian missionaries, through his childhood in Bible College, being a High School dropout and studying at three universities to becoming an academic, activist and author, and now a writer. Following in the footsteps of New Lives of the Saints: Twelve Environmental Apostles, Black Swan Song also comprises conversations in conservation counter-theology between the twelve minor biblical prophets and twelve environmental apostles, such as Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Rachel Carson. It also introduces the lives and works of twelve more environmental apostles, such as John Clare, Rebecca Solnit, John Charles Ryan, and others who have made a valuable contribution to green thinking and living. Black Swan Song mixes modes and genres, such as memoir, essay, story, criticism, etc., making up the writer’s black swan song. It provides ways of living and being with the earth in dark and troubled times by providing resources of a journey of hope for learning to live bio- and psycho-symbiotic livelihoods in bioregional home habitats of the living earth and in the Symbiocene, the hoped-for age superseding the Anthropocene.
Table of Contents
I: Early to Later Life and Work
Born in Borneo Brought up in Bible CollegeShaped by Place and WorkSome Teachers Who Taught Me SomethingA Most Homely House and HabitatThe Nexus: A Pro-Symbiotic, Anti-Fascist Ecology of EducationFarewell to ForrestdaleClimbing the Family TreesMy Thoreauvian Pilgrimage Closing the Circles The Way of Taoism The Writer’s Life The Writer’s Desk Wading out of Wetlands The Blue Angel and the Mountain Dragon Up the Inner Passage Tanked Streamed: A Tale of Illness, a Tale of Woe
II: Conversations in Conservation Counter-Theology: Twelve Minor Biblical Prophets and Twelve Major Environmental Apostles
Hosea and Paul Virilio, the Patron Saint of Grey EcologyJoel and Rachel Carson, the Patron Saint of American ConservationAmos and Aldo Leopold, the Patron Saint of MarshesObadiah and Judith Wright, the Patron Saint of Australian ConservationJonah and St Margaret, the Patron Saint of Marshy MotherhoodMicah and St George, the Patron Saint of EnglandNahum and Raymond Williams, the Patron Saint of Ecocultural StudiesHabakkuk and St Francis, the Patron Saint of the EarthZephaniahand Seamus Heaney, the Patron Saint of BogsHaggaiand Henry David Thoreau, the Patron Saint of SwampsZechariah and Walter Benjamin, the Patron Saint of Cultural StudiesMalachi and John Muir, the Patron Saint of National Parks
III: More New Saints: Twelve Minor Environmental Apostles
John Clare: The Patron Saint of the Fens Walt Whitman: The Singer of the Song of the Earth Richard Jefferies: The Patron Saint of Being at Home on the Earth H. P. Lovecraft: American Singer of the Song of the BogLord Dunsany: The Singer of the Song of the Bog Albert Howard: The Patron Saint of Soil ConservationElyne Mitchell: The Patron Saint of Australian Soil Conservation Felix Guattari: The Patron Saint of Third Ecology Rebecca Solnit: The Patron Saint of Progressive PoliticsGlenn Albrecht: The Patron Saint of the Symbiocene John Charles Ryan: The Patron Saint of Plants Charles Massy: The Patron Saint of Regenerative Farming
Further Reading/Other Books and Book Chapters by Rod Giblett
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | May 06 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 242 |
| ISBN | 9780761872795 |
| Imprint | Hamilton Books |
| Illustrations | 1 BW Photo |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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