REVIEW: The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress by Cameron Muir

Authors

  • Barbara Holloway College of Arts and Social Sciences ANU, Canberra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60162/swamphen.6.11354

Keywords:

agriculture, bioregion, Murray-Darling Basin

Abstract

Though not ecocriticism, this is an important work for anyone working anywhere on representation of the inter-being of natural and cultivated worlds. It shows the health of a bioregion changing through social, political, natural, economic and scientific influences from local, national and global sources. Muir’s primary focus is the dynamics of ‘agricultural progress’, a concept that so often results in damaging exploitation of earth and ecosystems.

Author Biography

  • Barbara Holloway, College of Arts and Social Sciences ANU, Canberra
    Visiting Fellow

References

Cameron Muir, The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress. London and NY: Routledge Environmental Humanities Series, 2014.

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Published

2017-03-07

Issue

Vol. 6 (2016): AJE: The Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Section

Book Reviews

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