How Mangroves Story: On Being a Filter Feeder
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Article Title | How Mangroves Story: On Being a Filter Feeder |
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ERA Journal ID | 200189 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Judith, Kate |
Journal Title | Swamphen: A Journal of Cultural Ecology |
Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology | |
Journal Citation | 7, pp. 1-10 |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2020 |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 1839-843X |
Web Address (URL) | https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/Swamphen/article/view/14366 |
Abstract | The relationship between gravity, the moon and the ocean translates into the regular rhythm of tides, which provide a powerful energy, both productive and destructive, across intertidal zones. Mangroves, like other intertidal ecologies, negotiate the regularities and disturbances of tidal energies through many processes and build up complex worlds. One of these processes is filter feeding, which transforms incoming detritus into many kinds of bodies, while mucus covered faeces are excreted into the bacterial-rich mud, to be transformed again. Filter feeding stories the relationship between the moon and the sea into thick embodied mangrove narratives. This paper demonstrates and explores an account of relationality as narrative within a semiotic material ontology, as told in the storying of the relationship of the moon and the sea within the materiality of mangroves. |
Keywords | mangrove; semiotic material; material ecocriticism |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 500399. Philosophy not elsewhere classified |
Byline Affiliations | University of Southern Queensland |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q5v60/how-mangroves-story-on-being-a-filter-feeder
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