Plant-human futurisms in the Australian tropics: Native grasses and the Carbon_Dating art project
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Leimbach, Tania, Armstrong, Keith, Palmer, Jane, Walker Ngadijina, Delissa and Turpin, Gerry. 2025. "Plant-human futurisms in the Australian tropics: Native grasses and the Carbon_Dating art project." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics. 24 (2), pp. 150-173. https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.24.2.2025.4097
| Article Title | Plant-human futurisms in the Australian tropics: Native grasses and the Carbon_Dating art project |
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| ERA Journal ID | 41572 |
| Article Category | Article |
| Authors | Leimbach, Tania, Armstrong, Keith, Palmer, Jane, Walker Ngadijina, Delissa and Turpin, Gerry |
| Journal Title | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
| Journal Citation | 24 (2), pp. 150-173 |
| Article Number | 4097 |
| Number of Pages | 24 |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publisher | James Cook University |
| Place of Publication | James Cook University, Townsville |
| ISSN | 1448-2940 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.24.2.2025.4097 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/index.php/etropic/article/view/4097/3910 |
| Abstract | The tropics have been first to suffer from the effects of unsustainable practices on land and sea. The Carbon_Dating project (2019 to 2025)—an artwork and cultural campaign designed to provoke a re-imagining of human-grass futures that builds relationships with native grasses—has worked in Far North Queensland, Australia, with two First Nations participants: Mbabaram Elder, knowledge-holder, and ethnobotanist Gerry Turpin, and Kuku Yalanji Master Weaver and artist Delissa Walker Ngadijina. Using traditional knowledge and creative works to forge new imaginaries that selectively choose or refuse those of the coloniser, the contributions of these two participants are an assertion of Indigenous relationalities in the tropics, and offer others a way of re-imagining plant-human futures in the wider world. |
| Keywords | native grasses; socially-engaged art; plant blindness; Indigenous Futurisms; Australian Tropics; plant-human relations |
| Contains Sensitive Content | Contains sensitive content |
| Sensitive Handling Note | Indigenous/First Nations women's business |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 369999. Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified |
| 450303. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental conservation | |
| 410404. Environmental management | |
| Byline Affiliations | University of New South Wales |
| Queensland University of Technology | |
| University of Southern Queensland | |
| Kuku Yalanji Master Weaver, Australia | |
| James Cook University |
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