Mardi Reardon-Smith- Research Fellow at Monash University (Australia)
Mardi Reardon-Smith
- Research Fellow at Monash University (Australia)
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Introduction
Dr Mardi Reardon-Smith is a cultural and environmental anthropologist and Research Fellow at the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making & Society at Monash. Her work addresses the production and transmission of environmental knowledges, environmental management both inside and outside of formal conservation structures, and Indigenous-settler relations. Her forthcoming book, titled ‘Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia’, is under contract with Stanford University Press.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
March 2017 - February 2021
University of Sydney
Position
- PhD scholar
May 2022 - January 2025
Publications
Publications (11)
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 transfe...
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...
Over recent years, Indigenous peoples in Australia have increasingly sought to explore the commercial and economic potential of their intellectual property and Traditional Knowledge (TK) in relation to genetic or biological resources. Indigenous peoples have recognised the economic value of their TK in a variety of diverse industries, including vis...
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...
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...
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 agre...
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 Park...
