M Reardon-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 57174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Reardon-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Reardon-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | REARDON-SMITH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3350-2352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anthropology Put to Work: The Potential Role of Anthropology in the Recognition and Regulation of Traditional Medicines
In recent years, there have been global shifts toward recognising and protecting Indigenous cultural and intellectual property of biological resources (including medicinal plants) through global instruments, protocols, and treaties, including the Nagoya Protocol. The establishment of these instruments has occurred in step with a growing interest among Indigenous peoples in Australia in exploring the commercial potential of their traditional medic…
Oral evidence of traditional use of Indigenous medicines: Toward recognition
Past efforts to commercialize Indigenous knowledge of traditional medicines have often been marred by biopiracy, that is, the unauthorized use of traditional knowledge. Today, Indigenous peoples are increasingly interested in commercializing traditional knowledge of medicinal plants in ways that are controlled by and provide benefits to themselves and their communities. In Australia, medicines are regulated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration…
In the weeds: Thinking through anthropological and other social science approaches to invasive plant species and their control
As climate change and biodiversity loss dismantle the world's ecosystems, we are becoming a planet of weeds. The spread of invasive plant species poses acute challenges to human and non-human life, threatening biodiversity, economic livelihoods, and human health. In anthropology, there has been an embrace of the concept of "weediness" as generative in recent years, both as a way to think through unexpected flourishings amidst the ruins of capital…
It's about getting the right people back on the right country: Cultural difference and structural inequality in a northern Australian joint managed National Park
In recent decades, there has been a shift both globally and within Australia towards community engagement in protected area management. In Australia, this has manifested in Aboriginal participation and decision-making in a range of protected areas. One form this takes is the joint management of already-existing national parks that have been transferred to Aboriginal ownership. In this article, I investigate ethnographically the tensions that emer…
Forging Preferred Landscapes: Burning Regimes, Carbon Sequestration and 'Natural' Fire in Cape York, Far North Australia
Fire management is a right and responsibility shared by all land managers in Cape York Peninsula, far north Australia, bringing together Aboriginal traditional owners, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service rangers and settler-descended cattle graziers. The landscape of Northern Australia has been socialised by fire over millennia, resulting in a fire-adapted and fire-dependent landscape. While fire knowledge originated with Aboriginal traditional…
A seat at the table? Planning, meetings and the ‘stable relation’ of a joint managed National Park in northern Australia
Grappling with Weeds: Invasive Species and Hybrid Landscapes in Cape York Peninsula, Far Northeast Australia
The control of various introduced species brings to the fore questions around how species are categorised as ‘native’ or ‘invasive’, belonging or not belonging. In far north Queensland, Australia, the Cape York region is a complex mixture of land tenures, including pastoral leases, National Parks and Aboriginal land, and overlapping management agreements. Weed control comprises much of the work that land managers in Cape York do. However, differe…
Valuing Hard Work: ‘Station Times’, the Pioneer Complex and Settler-Descended Graziers’ Views on Work in Cape York Peninsula
The historically unequal grazing industry in Cape York Peninsula, far northeast Queensland, gave rise to intercultural relationships between Aboriginal stock workers and settler-descended graziers. However, in recent decades, Aboriginal employment on cattle stations has fallen. Nowadays, many younger Aboriginal people work in government-funded jobs which settler-descended graziers frame as ‘hand-out style’ work. Settler-descended graziers have co…
The Wet: Shifting Seasons, Climate Change and Natural Cycles in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Land managers in Cape York Peninsula, far northeast Australia, hold different ideas around the causes of climate variability. Understandings of changes in climate are underpinned by particular environmental knowledges, values, and practices. These understandings are articulated in the context of the wet season, when land managers must adapt to the changing duration and intensity of the rainfall each year. The wet and dry seasons function as cycli…
We are the ones who know the intimacies of the soil’: Grazier claims to belonging and changing land relations in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Across Cape York Peninsula, the cattle grazing industry has declined in recent decades due to falling cattle prices, shorter wet seasons and land tenure changes. Remaining graziers perceive their status in the region as increasingly marginal and explain this precarity with the ‘locking up’ of Cape York land regimes and environments by National Parks and Aboriginal interests. Based on 14 months of ethnographic research in south‐east Cape York cond…
We are the ones who know the intimacies of the soil’: Grazier claims to belonging and changing land relations in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Across Cape York Peninsula, the cattle grazing industry has declined in recent decades due to falling cattle prices, shorter wet seasons and land tenure changes. Remaining graziers perceive their status in the region as increasingly marginal and explain this precarity with the ‘locking up’ of Cape York land regimes and environments by National Parks and Aboriginal interests. Based on 14 months of ethnographic research in south‐east Cape York cond…
Forging Preferred Landscapes: Burning Regimes, Carbon Sequestration and 'Natural' Fire in Cape York, Far North Australia
Fire management is a right and responsibility shared by all land managers in Cape York Peninsula, far north Australia, bringing together Aboriginal traditional owners, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service rangers and settler-descended cattle graziers. The landscape of Northern Australia has been socialised by fire over millennia, resulting in a fire-adapted and fire-dependent landscape. While fire knowledge originated with Aboriginal traditional…
Oral evidence of traditional use of Indigenous medicines: Toward recognition
Past efforts to commercialize Indigenous knowledge of traditional medicines have often been marred by biopiracy, that is, the unauthorized use of traditional knowledge. Today, Indigenous peoples are increasingly interested in commercializing traditional knowledge of medicinal plants in ways that are controlled by and provide benefits to themselves and their communities. In Australia, medicines are regulated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration…
In the weeds: Thinking through anthropological and other social science approaches to invasive plant species and their control
As climate change and biodiversity loss dismantle the world's ecosystems, we are becoming a planet of weeds. The spread of invasive plant species poses acute challenges to human and non-human life, threatening biodiversity, economic livelihoods, and human health. In anthropology, there has been an embrace of the concept of "weediness" as generative in recent years, both as a way to think through unexpected flourishings amidst the ruins of capital…
A seat at the table? Planning, meetings and the ‘stable relation’ of a joint managed National Park in northern Australia
We are the ones who know the intimacies of the soil’: Grazier claims to belonging and changing land relations in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Across Cape York Peninsula, the cattle grazing industry has declined in recent decades due to falling cattle prices, shorter wet seasons and land tenure changes. Remaining graziers perceive their status in the region as increasingly marginal and explain this precarity with the ‘locking up’ of Cape York land regimes and environments by National Parks and Aboriginal interests. Based on 14 months of ethnographic research in south‐east Cape York cond…
Grappling with Weeds: Invasive Species and Hybrid Landscapes in Cape York Peninsula, Far Northeast Australia
The control of various introduced species brings to the fore questions around how species are categorised as ‘native’ or ‘invasive’, belonging or not belonging. In far north Queensland, Australia, the Cape York region is a complex mixture of land tenures, including pastoral leases, National Parks and Aboriginal land, and overlapping management agreements. Weed control comprises much of the work that land managers in Cape York do. However, differe…
Valuing Hard Work: ‘Station Times’, the Pioneer Complex and Settler-Descended Graziers’ Views on Work in Cape York Peninsula
The historically unequal grazing industry in Cape York Peninsula, far northeast Queensland, gave rise to intercultural relationships between Aboriginal stock workers and settler-descended graziers. However, in recent decades, Aboriginal employment on cattle stations has fallen. Nowadays, many younger Aboriginal people work in government-funded jobs which settler-descended graziers frame as ‘hand-out style’ work. Settler-descended graziers have co…
The Wet: Shifting Seasons, Climate Change and Natural Cycles in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Land managers in Cape York Peninsula, far northeast Australia, hold different ideas around the causes of climate variability. Understandings of changes in climate are underpinned by particular environmental knowledges, values, and practices. These understandings are articulated in the context of the wet season, when land managers must adapt to the changing duration and intensity of the rainfall each year. The wet and dry seasons function as cycli…
A seat at the table? Planning, meetings and the ‘stable relation’ of a joint managed National Park in northern Australia
In the weeds: Thinking through anthropological and other social science approaches to invasive plant species and their control
As climate change and biodiversity loss dismantle the world's ecosystems, we are becoming a planet of weeds. The spread of invasive plant species poses acute challenges to human and non-human life, threatening biodiversity, economic livelihoods, and human health. In anthropology, there has been an embrace of the concept of "weediness" as generative in recent years, both as a way to think through unexpected flourishings amidst the ruins of capital…
It's about getting the right people back on the right country: Cultural difference and structural inequality in a northern Australian joint managed National Park
In recent decades, there has been a shift both globally and within Australia towards community engagement in protected area management. In Australia, this has manifested in Aboriginal participation and decision-making in a range of protected areas. One form this takes is the joint management of already-existing national parks that have been transferred to Aboriginal ownership. In this article, I investigate ethnographically the tensions that emer…
Forging Preferred Landscapes: Burning Regimes, Carbon Sequestration and 'Natural' Fire in Cape York, Far North Australia
Fire management is a right and responsibility shared by all land managers in Cape York Peninsula, far north Australia, bringing together Aboriginal traditional owners, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service rangers and settler-descended cattle graziers. The landscape of Northern Australia has been socialised by fire over millennia, resulting in a fire-adapted and fire-dependent landscape. While fire knowledge originated with Aboriginal traditional…
Anthropology Put to Work: The Potential Role of Anthropology in the Recognition and Regulation of Traditional Medicines
In recent years, there have been global shifts toward recognising and protecting Indigenous cultural and intellectual property of biological resources (including medicinal plants) through global instruments, protocols, and treaties, including the Nagoya Protocol. The establishment of these instruments has occurred in step with a growing interest among Indigenous peoples in Australia in exploring the commercial potential of their traditional medic…
Oral evidence of traditional use of Indigenous medicines: Toward recognition
Past efforts to commercialize Indigenous knowledge of traditional medicines have often been marred by biopiracy, that is, the unauthorized use of traditional knowledge. Today, Indigenous peoples are increasingly interested in commercializing traditional knowledge of medicinal plants in ways that are controlled by and provide benefits to themselves and their communities. In Australia, medicines are regulated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration…
Geography (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Cape (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (3 works) · Peninsula (3 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works)