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Table of contents (11 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xii

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Quaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind Meet
1. Quaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind Meet
  
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  Pages 1-14
Uncanny
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 15-16
  
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2. Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny
  
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  Pages 17-35
3. The Nether World of the Uncanny City of Dreadful Night
  
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  Pages 36-54
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
  
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  Pages 59-68
3. Fire and Air in the Sublime Bombing of World War II Aerial Warfare
  
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  Pages 69-85
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
  
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  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
  
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  Pages 106-121
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
  
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  Pages 125-137
3. Terrifying Prospects and Resources of Hope: Minescapes, Timescapes and the Aesthetics of the Future
  
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  Pages 138-154
Water Bodies
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 155-156
  
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2. A Natural History of Natural, Unnatural and National Disasters
  
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  Pages 157-173
3. Black and White Water: Cross-Cultural Colour-Coding of the Life-Blood of the Earth-Body
  
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  Pages 174-189
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Pages 190-205

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About this book

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.

About the author

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).

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Landscapes of Culture and Nature
Authors: Rod Giblett
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250963
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23584-7Published: 29 September 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-25096-3Published: 29 September 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 205
Topics: Photography, Intellectual Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Cultural Studies, Australasian History, Ecology

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

Front Matter

Quaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind Meet

Uncanny

Front Matter

World War S(ub)lime

Front Matter

Photographic Sublime and Uncanny

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Mindscapes

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Water Bodies

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Back Matter

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