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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 fi...
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... In other instances, cultural and environmental values aligned. One of the main threats discussed in relation to cultural sites was the proliferation of invasive plant species, the control of which has emerged as a way for traditional owners to 'clean up' and care for country (Bach et al., 2019;Bach and Larson, 2017;Reardon-Smith, 2023) while simultaneously being a key priority for Queensland Parks and other conservation actors in the region. Likewise, burning regimes function simultaneously to 'clean up' country and demonstrate care for and connection to ancestral spirits who dwell in the land, and reduce fuel loads and mitigate the risk of wildfires later in the year (Yibarbuk et al., 2001;Cook et al., 2012;Petty et al., 2015;Reardon-Smith, 2023). ...
... One of the main threats discussed in relation to cultural sites was the proliferation of invasive plant species, the control of which has emerged as a way for traditional owners to 'clean up' and care for country (Bach et al., 2019;Bach and Larson, 2017;Reardon-Smith, 2023) while simultaneously being a key priority for Queensland Parks and other conservation actors in the region. Likewise, burning regimes function simultaneously to 'clean up' country and demonstrate care for and connection to ancestral spirits who dwell in the land, and reduce fuel loads and mitigate the risk of wildfires later in the year (Yibarbuk et al., 2001;Cook et al., 2012;Petty et al., 2015;Reardon-Smith, 2023). ...
... In the case of both captured carbon and nuclear waste, the plausibility of such indefinite containment remains contested (Granjou & Salazar, 2019;Pitkanen, 2020). The prospect of fire freeing the carbon embodied in trees and undergrowth (not to mention built structures), for instance, looms large in critiques of such "nature"-based sequestration projects (Reardon-Smith, 2023). Nonetheless, these serve as useful examples of how the strategic cultivation of land, and, increasingly, the underground, is now widely approached as a project with the capacity to resolve problems associated with excessive or polluting forms of circulation (Chailleux, 2020;Evans et al., 2009;Gormally et al., 2018;Kearnes & Rickards, 2017). ...
Resource storage has long played a key role in the production of socio-ecological arrangements and economic relations. Even so, storage as a concept has remained somewhat marginal within geographical scholarship, often obscured by an analytical focus on the dynamics of movement. Reviewing recent works from geography, science and technology studies , and anthropology that center sites and practices of storage , this essay elaborates the diverse ways in which storage arrangements mediate resource circulation and the production of space. This literature demonstrates that thinking systematically with storage can illuminate a range of novel temporal, material, and value entanglements in-the-making, pointing to potentially fruitful avenues for future research. K E Y W O R D S global warming, natural resources, political economy, resources, sustainability, transport
... The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology -Accepted Mardi.reardonsmith@deakin.edu.au Pre-print sequestration scheme, in which landholders and managers receive payment from private industry for their fire management work (Russell-Smith et al, 2013;Reardon-Smith, 2023 to disillusionment in which many participants received their pay without fulfilling their mutual obligations (Musharbash, 2004). This resulted in critics of the scheme branding it as nothing more than welfare and arguing that it would produce 'dependency' (Austin-Broos ...engaged in a political struggle over the interpretation of their labour and over the use and development of regional lands based upon what they produce. ...
