A poster outlining the preliminary work of Imogen Wegman’s PhD thesis. Submitted to the Graduate Research Conference, University of Tasmania, 2014.

The Norfolk landscape has continuously changed and developed over the centuries as farms have grown and amalgamated, towns expanded, and coastlines eroded. Although post-medieval alterations and additions have influenced the county’s landscape, the settlement patterns were created earlier, in the medieval period. One characteristic feature of t…[Read more]

How does capitalism work through the web of life?

Capitalism, understood as a world-ecology that joins accumulation, power, and nature in dialectical unity, has been adept at evading so-called Malthusian dynamics through an astonishing historical capacity to produce, locate, and occupy cheap natures external to the system. In recent decades, the last frontiers have closed, and this astonishing…[Read more]

Abstract In the flowering of Red-Green Thought over the past two decades, metabolic
rift thinking is surely one of its most colorful varieties. The metabolic rift has captured
the imagination of critical environmental scholars, becoming a shorthand for capitalism’s
troubled relations in the web of life. This article pursues an entwined c…[Read more]

In 1957, Clinton Hartley Grattan, one of Australia’s most important foreign observers, wrote of the shadow of the “urban” in legends of the Australian “bush”.1 He argued that the early frontiers of Australian settlement were frontiers of men with private capital, or entrepreneurs, and those frontiers thus carried more elements of the urban tha…[Read more]

Article for The Conversation about the historic impact of status on land ownership in Australia.