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Mardi Reardon-Smith

@mardirs.bsky.social

environmental anthropology & STS ~ interested in environmental management/knowledges/values ~ research fellow at @admscentre.org.au working on ADM, ecosystems & multispecies relationships

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Book cover of Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia by Mardi Reardon-Smith

Book cover of Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia by Mardi Reardon-Smith

Based on long-term field research with Aboriginal traditional owners, settler-descended cattle herders, and park rangers, Making Do by Mardi Reardon-Smith investigates complex ways in which people form, maintain, and transform relationships to changing environments.

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21.10.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Making Do | Stanford University Press Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been us...

Use the code MAKING20 for 20% off at www.sup.org/books/anthro... or if you’re in Aus you can support local through www.readings.com.au/product/9781...

20.10.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My book 'Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia' is out today with Stanford University Press. A long time coming and a big labour of love, I feel very excited to see this out in the world!

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Making Do | Stanford University Press Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been us...

So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...

08.09.2025 06:47 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Tim!

09.09.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AusSTS 2025 Join the SSN and AusSTS for a series of free events in the week of 8- 11 July. We start off with the SSN's 'Doing Interdisciplinarity' on Tuesday afternoon, in-person at Deakin Downtown. This is follo...

Not coming to #AusSTS25? You can catch each keynote, livestreamed here www.eventbrite.com/cc/aussts-20...

26.06.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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AusSTS 2025 Signals and Noises Program AusSTS 2025 Signals and Noises Conference Booklet Conference-on-a-page Conference organising committee Conference Program AusSTS Day 1 (NCM), Wednesday 9 July AusSTS Day 2 (Deakin Downtown), Thursday ...

✨ Good morning Narrm!✨
It's day 1 of #AusSTS2025 and we are looking forward to three days of conversations, workshops, performances, and other experiments with all things #signalsandnoisesπŸ“‘πŸŽ›οΈ

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

08.07.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Delighted to be able to share the cover of my forthcoming book β€œMaking Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia”, coming out in October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Read more about it here: www.sup.org/books/anthro...

21.05.2025 06:25 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Putricia: digitally romancing a corpse flower - Overland literary journal I’ve never been in the presence of a blossoming corpse flower. I’ve never breathed in the scent. But through my computer screen I could experience Putricia’s soft velvety folds, her firm but wilting s...

a little late to mention, but a short essay I wrote on digitally mediated parasocial relationships with plants was published earlier this year in @overlandjournal.bsky.social

overland.org.au/2025/03/putr...

21.05.2025 06:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"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 an...

pleased that my article on the practice & politics of joint management in a north Australian national park is out now in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social Read it open access here: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

11.03.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CFP closing next week for #AusSTS2025! Don't miss this πŸ”₯ list of plenary speakers including

Warwick Anderson
Kari Lancaster
Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh
Fabian Offert
Dang Nguyen
Kate Mannel
Chris O'Neill
Elizabeth Stephens
Jaya Keaney
& more!!

Deadline 14 March

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Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters & making and doing, pre-submi…

The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

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πŸ“£Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚑SIGNALS AND NOISES⚑

9 - 11 July, 2025
Melbourne/Naarm

Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social

Ful CFP coming soon!

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OnlineFirst - "In the weeds: Thinking through anthropological and other social science approaches to invasive plant species and their control" by @mardirs.bsky.social:

#weeds #invasiveplantspecies #vegetalpoliticalecology #colonialism #toxicities

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

13.01.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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