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