Deborah Bird Rose
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3639331 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Deborah Bird Rose |
| PRENOMES | Deborah Bird |
| SOBRENOME | Rose |
| ASSINATURA | ROSE D B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Australian National University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 475 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Dreaming Ecology
In the author's own words, Dreaming Ecology 'explores a holistic understanding of the interconnections of people, country, kinship, creation and the living world within a context of mobility. Implicitly it asks how people lived so sustainably for so long'. It offers a telling critique of the loss of Indigenous life, human and non-human, in the wake of white settler colonialism
Shimmer
Ancestral Power
Sacred Site, Ancestral Clearing, and Environmental Ethics
Extinction Studies
Lively Ethography
This article is an effort to dwell with the kinds of writing and thinking practices that we have been developing in our research, especially over the past seven years. This is an approach grounded in an attentiveness to the evolving ways of life (or ēthea; singular: ethos) of diverse forms of human and nonhuman life and in an effort to explore and perhaps restory the relationships that constitute and nourish them. Our aim is to develop "lively et…
Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene
The recent 10,000 year history of climatic stability on Earth that enabled the rise of agriculture and domestication, the growth of cities, numerous technological revolutions, and the emergence of modernity is now over. We accept that in the latest phase of this era, modernity is unmaking the stability that enabled its emergence. Over the 21st century severe and numerous weather disasters, scarcity of key resources, major changes in environments,…
The ancestral sensorium and the city
Arts of flow
Slowly ~ writing into the Anthropocene
This paper argues against abstracts
Val Plumwood's Philosophical Animism
Towards the end of her eventful and productive life, Val Plumwood was turning toward Indigenous people and cultures as a way of encountering the lived experience of ideas she was working with theoretically. At the same time, she was defining herself as a philosophical animist. As I understand her term, she was making connections with animism as a worldview, but rather than mimic or appropriate indigenous animisms she was developing a foundation t…
The Rain Keeps Falling
The force of disaster hit me in the heart when, as a young woman, I heard Bob Dylan sing 'Hard Rain'. In a voice stunned by violence, the young man reports on a multitude of forces that drag the world into catastrophe. In the 1960s I heard the social justice in the song. In 2004 the environmental issues ambush me. The song starts and ends in the dying world of trees and rivers. The poet's words in both domains of justice are eerily prophetic. The…
What If the Angel of History Were a Dog
My title question comes from Walter Benjamin's ninth thesis on the philosophy of history. The answer I explore is that she is howling. I engage with some of the implications of the howling of living beings in a time of death. My concern is with death, and I must distinguish between two contexts of death. The first is the fact of death that inheres in life. Life, with the exception of some bacteria, involves death both for individuals and, it now …
Multispecies Knots of Ethical Time
Introduction and Farewell
Cosmopolitics
A portrait of Australian flying fox life in the Anthropocene illuminates startlingly familiar stories. These animals are participants in most of the major catastrophic events of contemporary life on Earth: warfare, man-made mass death, famine, expukion, urbanisation, emerging dkeases, climate change, and biosecurity. At the same time they are the targets of conservation action and local/international NGO aid. They are endangered, and are involved…
Storied-places in a multispecies city

Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities
Welcome to the first volume of this new, international, open-access journal.Environmental Humanities aims to support and further a wide range of conversations on environmental issues in this time of growing awareness of the ecological and social challenges facing all life on earth.The field of environmental humanities is growing rapidly, both in research and teaching.In just the past few years, a number of research centres and undergraduate and p…
Remembrance
How deprived we would have been if we had been willing to let things stay as they were. We would have survived, but not as a whole people. We would never have known our place.' Rejecting the 'soft lie of nostalgia'1, she provides an exploration of place -historical, geographical, social, cultural, spiritual. Within her own narrative she embeds other stories in a way that allows past and present mutually to influence each other and the future
Flying Fox
A portrait of Australian flying fox life in the Anthropocene illuminates startlingly familiar stories. These animals are participants in most of the major catastrophic events, as well as contestations about rescue, of contemporary life on Earth: warfare, man-made mass death, famine, urbanisation, emerging diseases, climate change, biosecurity, conservation and local/international NGO aid. They are endangered, and are involved in all four of the m…
Signs of Life on a Barbarous Frontier
Introduction
This issue of Ecological Humanities is dedicated to a topic inspired by Val Plumwood: 'Thinking about writing for the Anthropocene'. In the last article she wrote before her death, Plumwood spoke passionately about the role of writers in our current time of crisis. She called for poets and other writers to join in a rethinking that 'has the courage to question our most basic cultural narratives'. In particular, she called for writing that is 'ope…
Love in the Time of Extinctions
On history, trees, and ethical proximity
Ashis Nandy urges us, in his essay ‘History's Forgotten Doubles’, to consider alternative modes of engaging with the past. I take up his inspiring challenge in relation to my long-term research with Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory of Australia. Through an examination of several short stories that connect past, present and future, I consider an Indigenous critique of colonising damage and destruction. Nandy suggests that ‘each ahistori…
Fitting into Country
When Jessie Wirrpa1 went walkabout, she called out to her ancestors. “Give us fish,” she would call out, “the kids are hungry.” Jessie's country included the dead as well as the living, the Dreamin
Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities
Welcome to the first volume of this new, international, open-access journal.Environmental Humanities aims to support and further a wide range of conversations on environmental issues in this time of growing awareness of the ecological and social challenges facing all life on earth.The field of environmental humanities is growing rapidly, both in research and teaching.In just the past few years, a number of research centres and undergraduate and p…
Storied-places in a multispecies city

Lively Ethography
This article is an effort to dwell with the kinds of writing and thinking practices that we have been developing in our research, especially over the past seven years. This is an approach grounded in an attentiveness to the evolving ways of life (or ēthea; singular: ethos) of diverse forms of human and nonhuman life and in an effort to explore and perhaps restory the relationships that constitute and nourish them. Our aim is to develop "lively et…
Val Plumwood's Philosophical Animism
Towards the end of her eventful and productive life, Val Plumwood was turning toward Indigenous people and cultures as a way of encountering the lived experience of ideas she was working with theoretically. At the same time, she was defining herself as a philosophical animist. As I understand her term, she was making connections with animism as a worldview, but rather than mimic or appropriate indigenous animisms she was developing a foundation t…
On history, trees, and ethical proximity
Ashis Nandy urges us, in his essay ‘History's Forgotten Doubles’, to consider alternative modes of engaging with the past. I take up his inspiring challenge in relation to my long-term research with Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory of Australia. Through an examination of several short stories that connect past, present and future, I consider an Indigenous critique of colonising damage and destruction. Nandy suggests that ‘each ahistori…
Slowly ~ writing into the Anthropocene
This paper argues against abstracts
Flying Fox
A portrait of Australian flying fox life in the Anthropocene illuminates startlingly familiar stories. These animals are participants in most of the major catastrophic events, as well as contestations about rescue, of contemporary life on Earth: warfare, man-made mass death, famine, urbanisation, emerging diseases, climate change, biosecurity, conservation and local/international NGO aid. They are endangered, and are involved in all four of the m…
What If the Angel of History Were a Dog
My title question comes from Walter Benjamin's ninth thesis on the philosophy of history. The answer I explore is that she is howling. I engage with some of the implications of the howling of living beings in a time of death. My concern is with death, and I must distinguish between two contexts of death. The first is the fact of death that inheres in life. Life, with the exception of some bacteria, involves death both for individuals and, it now …
Cosmopolitics
A portrait of Australian flying fox life in the Anthropocene illuminates startlingly familiar stories. These animals are participants in most of the major catastrophic events of contemporary life on Earth: warfare, man-made mass death, famine, expukion, urbanisation, emerging dkeases, climate change, and biosecurity. At the same time they are the targets of conservation action and local/international NGO aid. They are endangered, and are involved…
Introduction
This issue of Ecological Humanities is dedicated to a topic inspired by Val Plumwood: 'Thinking about writing for the Anthropocene'. In the last article she wrote before her death, Plumwood spoke passionately about the role of writers in our current time of crisis. She called for poets and other writers to join in a rethinking that 'has the courage to question our most basic cultural narratives'. In particular, she called for writing that is 'ope…
Nature and gender in outback Australia
1992). Nature and gender in outback Australia. History and Anthropology: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 403-425
Dreaming Ecology
In the author's own words, Dreaming Ecology 'explores a holistic understanding of the interconnections of people, country, kinship, creation and the living world within a context of mobility. Implicitly it asks how people lived so sustainably for so long'. It offers a telling critique of the loss of Indigenous life, human and non-human, in the wake of white settler colonialism
Fitting into Country
When Jessie Wirrpa1 went walkabout, she called out to her ancestors. “Give us fish,” she would call out, “the kids are hungry.” Jessie's country included the dead as well as the living, the Dreamin
Issues Of Representation, Responsibility And Reflexive Anthropology
Gendered substances and objects in ritual
The creative action of the foundational beings known as Dreamings lies at the heart of Aboriginal Australian ceremony. In ritual, gender is drawn into a nexus of generative action and interaction. I will make the case that gender characterizes country, ceremonies, many sacred sites and many objects and substances. People, country, sites and ceremonies are integral to the bringing forth of the life of the world, and draw on a root paradigm of birt…
To Dance with Time
Taking Notice1
Resting on the belief that knowledge unfolds through dialogue this paper takes a dialogical approach to the exploration of worldviews. Understanding a worldview as a process of becoming rather than being, the paper engages with the thought of the Aboriginal teacher Jessie Wirrpa in relation to the work of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. In particular, the paper explores ideas of knowledge, caring and 'attentive intersubjectivity
Dialogue with Place
Dialogue with Place: Toward an Ecological Body Deborah Bird Rose The grotesque body is a body in the act of becoming. It is never finished, never completed; it is continually built, created. . . . The logic of grotesque ignores the closed, smooth, and impenetrable surface of the body ... —Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, 317 Bakhtin's study of Rabelais and the grotesque body is my starting point. The inspiration is to explore a part of the cultur…
Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology
2001). Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 251-261
A distant constellation
Ravens at Play
We were driving through Death Valley, an American-Australian and two Aussies, taking the scenic route from Las Vegas to Santa Cruz.' This multi-voiced account of multispecies encounters along a highway takes up the challenge of playful and humorous writing that is as well deeply serious and theoretically provocative. Our travels brought us into what Donna Haraway calls the contact zone: a region of recognition and response. The contact zone is a …
Ravens at Play
We were driving through Death Valley, an American-Australian and two Aussies, taking the scenic route from Las Vegas to Santa Cruz.' This multi-voiced account of multispecies encounters along a highway takes up the challenge of playful and humorous writing that is as well deeply serious and theoretically provocative. Our travels brought us into what Donna Haraway calls the contact zone: a region of recognition and response. The contact zone is a …
Life Before Genesis, A Conclusion. An Understanding of the Significance of Australian Aboriginal Culture , by David Turner
Archeologist's Dilemma
Issues Of Representation, Responsibility And Reflexive Anthropology
A distant constellation
Nature and gender in outback Australia
1992). Nature and gender in outback Australia. History and Anthropology: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 403-425
Ned Kelly Died for our Sins
From time to time scholars have posed the question: why have Australian Aborigines not developed cargo cults with the same intensity and flamboyance as their Melanesian neighbours? This discussion evades the implications that Aborigines may have been negligent in their cultural production of responses to colonisation, and seeks to engage with some of the responses some Aboriginal people actually have made to colonisation. Focussing on stories of …
Books
Freedom Bound I: Documents on Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Patricia Grimshaw, Susan Janson and Marian Quartly. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xi + 193. $22.95 paper. Freedom Bound II: Documents on Women in Modern Australia. Edited by Marilyn Lake and Katie Holmes. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xii + 208. $22.95 paper. A Woman's Constitution? Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth, Edited by Helen Irving. Hale & Iremonger…
Taking Notice1
Resting on the belief that knowledge unfolds through dialogue this paper takes a dialogical approach to the exploration of worldviews. Understanding a worldview as a process of becoming rather than being, the paper engages with the thought of the Aboriginal teacher Jessie Wirrpa in relation to the work of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. In particular, the paper explores ideas of knowledge, caring and 'attentive intersubjectivity
Emplaced Myth
To Dance with Time
Drawing on research with Aboriginal people in the Victoria River District of Australia, this paper explores time in patterns of motion and pause. Taking Cath Ellis's insight that some Aboriginal musicians posses a faculty of ‘perfect time’, and that the meshing of rhythms and other patterns in music has the effect of altering perceptions and understandings of time, I explore rhythmic patterns in four domains—nomadology, ecology, dance and cosmolo…
To Dance with Time
Looking West
Looking West. John D. Dorst. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. ix. 240 pp., photographs, figures, notes, works cited, index
Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology
2001). Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 251-261
Dialogue with Place
Dialogue with Place: Toward an Ecological Body Deborah Bird Rose The grotesque body is a body in the act of becoming. It is never finished, never completed; it is continually built, created. . . . The logic of grotesque ignores the closed, smooth, and impenetrable surface of the body ... —Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, 317 Bakhtin's study of Rabelais and the grotesque body is my starting point. The inspiration is to explore a part of the cultur…
An Indigenous Philosophical Ecology
Can Indigenous ecological knowledge contribute to major debates in Western science and philosophy? I argue that it offers a ‘philosophical ecology’ that works synergistically with Western eco‐philosophy and some streams of ecological science. This paper takes up the challenge offered by Val Plumwood: that anthropology can contribute to the work of re‐situating the human. It examines an ecological philosophy of mutual benefits, and shows patterns,…
Dislocating the Frontier
The frontier is one of the most pervasive concepts underlying the production of national identity in Australia. Recently it has become a highly contested domain in which visions of nationhood are argued out through analysis of frontier conflict
The Rivers of Babylon
The Rivers of Babylon Deborah Bird Rose (bio) I had a little breathing vent that was also my peephole. Tucked into my swag on a freezing night in the Simpson Desert of Central Australia, I could look out and watch the stars. Orion is one of the great night folk: in winter, in the desert, in the hours that are so early that dark is all there is, Orion lies seductively low on the horizon. Even peering out through my little airhole I could see him a…
Gendered substances and objects in ritual
The creative action of the foundational beings known as Dreamings lies at the heart of Aboriginal Australian ceremony. In ritual, gender is drawn into a nexus of generative action and interaction. I will make the case that gender characterizes country, ceremonies, many sacred sites and many objects and substances. People, country, sites and ceremonies are integral to the bringing forth of the life of the world, and draw on a root paradigm of birt…
Love in the Time of Extinctions
On history, trees, and ethical proximity
Ashis Nandy urges us, in his essay ‘History's Forgotten Doubles’, to consider alternative modes of engaging with the past. I take up his inspiring challenge in relation to my long-term research with Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory of Australia. Through an examination of several short stories that connect past, present and future, I consider an Indigenous critique of colonising damage and destruction. Nandy suggests that ‘each ahistori…
Fitting into Country
When Jessie Wirrpa1 went walkabout, she called out to her ancestors. “Give us fish,” she would call out, “the kids are hungry.” Jessie's country included the dead as well as the living, the Dreamin
Signs of Life on a Barbarous Frontier
Introduction
This issue of Ecological Humanities is dedicated to a topic inspired by Val Plumwood: 'Thinking about writing for the Anthropocene'. In the last article she wrote before her death, Plumwood spoke passionately about the role of writers in our current time of crisis. She called for poets and other writers to join in a rethinking that 'has the courage to question our most basic cultural narratives'. In particular, she called for writing that is 'ope…
Remembrance
How deprived we would have been if we had been willing to let things stay as they were. We would have survived, but not as a whole people. We would never have known our place.' Rejecting the 'soft lie of nostalgia'1, she provides an exploration of place -historical, geographical, social, cultural, spiritual. Within her own narrative she embeds other stories in a way that allows past and present mutually to influence each other and the future
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