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Jo Jones Neil Curtis

Four Rivers

Collected Responses on the Don and Dee Rivers (North-East Scotland) and the Derbarl Yerrigan...

Jo Jones,  Neil Curtis

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UWA Publishing
01 December 2022
The environment
The cities

Perth, Australia, and Aberdeen, Scotland

have received relatively little attention as specific geographical-cultural locales. Often perceived as industrial, isolated and lacking romantic association, they nevertheless have rich historical, narrative and creative traditions that characterise interactions between humans and place, particularly along the length of the four rivers. Anyone who heard the cities Perth and Aberdeen mentioned in the same sentence would likely assume the subject was fossil fuel mining and refining, or perhaps to do with migration and the ongoing nature of the Scottish diaspora.

Millions of years after the gas seam or oil deposit was formed the land continues to shape the ways we reside and our relationship to the land and water.

As is sometimes the way of things, an embodied connection to place, especially out-of-the-way ones, gives rise to lively subcultures that resist the capitalist and expansionist imperatives that seem to define the history of a location. This volume arose from the cross-pollination of the intellectual and the aesthetic. The contributions of this book are woven together through strands of deep mapping and ideas of place, history and inhabitation. Countercultures seem to return to specific place knowledge that predates industrialisation, whether in the traditional shapes of the Nyoongar knowledge of the Derbarl Yarrigan (Swan River) and Beeliar (Canning River) or the traditions and ancient patterns of Aberdeenshire: we come back to these profound knowledge systems that, in fact, never went away.
Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   UWA Publishing
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 159mm, 
Weight:   500g
ISBN:   9781760802189
ISBN 10:   1760802182
Pages:   300
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Neil Curtis was born in Glasgow in 1964, and came to Aberdeen in 1988 where he is now head of museums and special collections. He studied archaeology (Glasgow, 1986), museum studies (Leicester, 1988) and education (Aberdeen, 1995). He is a member of the Museums Associations' ethics committee and the Museums Gallery Scotland Recognition Committee. Jo Jones is an Associate Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies at Curtin University in Western Australia. Her key research areas are literary representations of historical narratives, literary gothic, deep time and literatures of place. In 2018 Jo published Falling Backwards: Australian Historical Fiction and The History Wars with UWAP, which won the 2019 Niall Lucy Award. In recent years, Jo has worked extensively on the literature of rivers and the theory of deep mapping.

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