Digging for Fire
Finding Control on the Australian Continent
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.33208Keywords:
bushfire, Aboriginal peoples, Australia, management, controlAbstract
In this paper, I examine recent influential accounts of the bushfire knowledge and practicesof Aboriginal peoples and their ancestors on the Australian continent, drawingattention to how these accounts accord with problematic and ecomodernist aspects ofcontemporary bushfire management discourse. Developing a two-part critique of thisdiscourse, I suggest both that we should accord the ecological contributions of Aboriginalpeoples and their ancestors significantly greater esteem, and that the recent accountspotentially limit the grounds for contemporary Aboriginal peoples' engagements in themanagement of their territories or "Country".
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____. 2011. Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet. London, UK: Sage.
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Clarke, M. F. 2008. “Catering for the Needs of Fauna in Fire Management: Science or Just Wishful Thinking?” Wildlife Research 35 (5): 385–394. https://doi.org/10.1071/WR07137
Costello, L. 2007. “Going Bush: The Implications of Urban?Rural Migration.” Geographical Research 45 (1): 85–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-5871.2007.00430.x
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Gammage, B. 2011. The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
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Healy, C. 2008. Forgetting Aborigines. Sydney: UNSW Press.
Hiscock, P. 2013. “Occupying New Lands: Global Migrations and Cultural Diversification with Particular Reference to Australia.” In Paleoamerican Odyssey, edited by K. E. Graf, C. V. Ketron and M. R. Waters, 3–11. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
____. 2014. “Creators or Destroyers? The Burning Questions of Human Impact in Ancient Aboriginal Australia.” Humanities Australia 5: 40–52.
Jones, R. 1968. “The Geographical Background to the Arrival of Man in Australia and Tasmania.” Archaeology in Oceania 3 (3): 186–215.
____. 1969. “Fire-Stick Farming.” Australian Natural History 16 (7): 224–228.
Jurskis, V. 2015. Firestick Ecology: Fairdinkum Science in Plain English. Ballarat, Vic: Connor Court Publishing.
Keen, I. 2014. Review of B. Gammage, The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Australian Economic History Review 54 (1): 86–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12038
King, A. R. 1963. The Influence of Colonization on the Forests and the Prevalence of Bushfires in Australia. Melbourne: CSIRO.
Kirksey, E. 2015. Emergent Ecologies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822374800
Knorr Cetina, K. 2001. “Objectual Practice.” In The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, edited by E. von Savigny, T. R. Schatzki and K. Knorr Cetina, 184–197. London and New York: Routledge.
Latour, B. 1993. We Have Never Been Modern. Translated by C. Porter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Leavesley, A. 2012. Review of B. Gammage, The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Ecological Management & Restoration 13 (2): 4–5. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-8903.2012.00645.x
Martin, R. J. 2013. “Sometime a Fire: Re-Imagining Elemental Conflict in Northern Australia’s Gulf Country.” Australian Humanities Review 55: 67–91.
McArthur, A. G. 1962. Control Burning in Eucalypt Forests. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia Forestry and Timber Bureau.
____. 1973. “Plotting Ecological Change.” In Historians at Work, edited by D. Dufty and K. Swan, 27–48. Sydney: Hicks Smith.
McLennan, B. and J. Handmer. 2012. “Reframing Responsibility-Sharing for Bushfire Risk Management in Australia after Black Saturday.” Environmental Hazards 11 (1): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2011.608835
Merlan, F. 2006. “Beyond Tradition.” Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 7 (1): 85–104. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442210600554507
Merrilees, D. 1968. “Man the Destroyer: Late Quaternary Changes in the Australian Marsupial Fauna.” Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 51: 1–24.
Miller, G. H., M. L. Fogel, J. W. Magee, M. K. Gagan, S. J. Clarke and B. J. Johnson. 2005. “Ecosystem Collapse in Pleistocene Australia and a Human Role in Megafaunal Extinction.” Science 309 (5732): 287–290. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1111288
Mooney, S. D., S. P. Harrison, P. J. Bartlein, A.-L. Daniau, J. Stevenson, K. C. Brownlie, S. Buckman, M. Cupper, J. Luly and M. Black. 2011. “Late Quaternary Fire Regimes of Australasia.” Quaternary Science Reviews 30 (1): 28–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.10.010
Moreton-Robinson, A. 2015. The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816692149.001.0001
Moritz, M. A., E. Batllori, R. A. Bradstock, A. M. Gill, J. Handmer, P. F. Hessburg, J. Leonard, S. McCaffrey, D. C. Odion, T. Schoennagel and A. D. Syphard. 2014. “Learning to Coexist with Wildfire.” Nature 515 (7525): 58. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13946
Mulvaney, D. J. 1961. “The Stone Age of Australia.” Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 27: 56–107. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X00015991
Neale, T. 2016. “Burning Anticipation: Wildfire, Risk Mitigation and Simulation Modelling in Victoria, Australia.” Environment & Planning A 48 (10): 2026–2045. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16651446
____. and D. May. 2017. “Bushfire Simulators and Analysis in Australia: Insights into an Emerging Sociotechnical Practice.” Environmental Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2017.1410462
Packham, D. 2013. “How to Make these Fires our Last.” Quadrant, 20 October. Available online: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2013/10/make-fires-last/
Pascoe, B. 2014. Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? Broome, WA: Magabala Books.
Penman, T. D., F. J. Christie, A. N. Andersen, R. A. Bradstock, G. J. Cary, M. K. Henderson, O. Price, C. Tran, G. M. Wardle, R. J. Williams and A. York. 2011. “Prescribed Burning: How Can It Work to Conserve the Things We Value?” International Journal of Wildland Fire 20 (6): 721–733. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF09131
Peters, J. D. 2015. The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226253978.001.0001
Price, O. F., T. D. Penman, R. A. Bradstock, M. M. Boer and H. Clarke. 2015. “Biogeographical Variation in the Potential Effectiveness of Prescribed Fire in South-Eastern Australia.” Journal of Biogeography 42 (11): 2234–2245. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12579
Pyne, S. J. 1991. Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia. New York: Holt.
Rose, D. B. 2014. “Decolonising the Discourse of Environmental Knowledge in Settler Societies.” In History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies, edited by T. Neale, C. McKinnon and E. Vincent, 208–228. Sydney: UTS ePress.
Rule, S., B. W. Brook, S. G. Haberle, C. S. M. Turney, A. P. Kershaw and C. N. Johnson. 2012. “The Aftermath of Megafaunal Extinction: Ecosystem Transformation in Pleistocene Australia.” Science 335 (6075): 1483–1486. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1214261
Scott, J. C. 1998. Seeing Like a State. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Taylor, R. 2014. “Archaeology and Aboriginal Protest: The Influence of Rhys Jones’s Tasmanian Work on Australian Historiography.” Australian Historical Studies 45 (3): 331–349. https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2014.948021
Terrell, J. E., J. P. Hart, S. Barut, N. Cellinese, A. Curet, T. Denham, C. M. Kusimba, K. Latinis, R. Oka and J. Palka. 2003. “Domesticated Landscapes: The Subsistence Ecology of Plant and Animal Domestication.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 10 (4): 323–368. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JARM.0000005510.54214.57
Tindale, N. B. 1959. “Ecology of Primitive Aboriginal Man in Australia.” In Biogeography and Ecology in Australia, edited by A. Keast, R. L. Crocker and C. S. Christian, 36–51. The Hague: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6295-3_3
Turnbull, M. 2016. “Remarks at Meeting with CFA Volunteers Parliament House, Canberra.” Transcript, 10 October. Available online: http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22media%2Fpressrel%2F4867279%22
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Neale, T. (2018). Digging for Fire: Finding Control on the Australian Continent. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 5(1), 79-90. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.33208
