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Book Discussion: Beyond Green by Lesley Head (VIC)

Join us for an exciting morning at Croydon Library, as we discuss Beyond Green by Lesley Head.

Lesley will be discussing the research that went into the book.

Bookings:

This event is free but RSVPs are required. Please RSVP here.

About the book:

Rethinking our relationship with the environment

How are we to think about nature and the environment?

The idea of nature as it relates to culture, society and humans has always been in constant flux and highly contested.

Lesley Head interrogates the ways the cultures of nature have operated in Australia across time, and how these ways of thinking and being limit our capacity to deal with the challenges of the climate change and biodiversity crises. Drawing on her life's work and lessons she has picked up along the way, Head suggests that it is up to us to attentively listen, the better to destabilise and subvert dominant narratives, and to imagine new possibilities. She believes we have the nous, resources and lessons from Indigenous, settler-descendant and immigrant cultures to reduce risk in the face of the unexpected and the unimaginable.

In Beyond Green, the story of nature and people weaves research and personal experience through many different times and spaces, offering new ways of understanding. It is a richly creative engagement with the abundant possibilities and pleasure of nature as a place of regeneration that is as warned by the rawk of the crow as it is accompanied by the carolling of magpies.
  • When Wed 08 October at 10:00AM
  • Where Croydon Library, 5 Civic Square, Croydon VIC 3136
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