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Abstract

Why do certain landscapes become contested sites for claims about identity?
We approach landscapes as assemblages of human and non-human elements
that reach beyond the confines of their immediate physical and temporal
locations. Our empirical focus is a small group of pine trees in a Tasmanian
suburb, where remnants of human and non-human migration are inscribed
and live on in the landscape and in human memory. We demonstrate how
the trees simultaneously invite and resist purification through binaries such
as nature and culture, wild and domestic, then and now. The histories and
futures of belonging assembled in and through these trees are nothing less
than active, idiosyncratic and ongoing processes of differentiation that shed
light on the working out of postcolonial, globalizing societies and ecologies.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Lien, M and Davison, AG
Keywords:	belonging, environmentalism, landscape, Tasmania, trees
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Material Culture
ISSN:	1359-1835
DOI / ID Number:	https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183510364078
Additional Information:	Copyright © 2010 SAGE Publications
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