Mardi Reardon-Smith
@mardirs.bsky.social
environmental anthropology & STS ~ interested in environmental management/knowledges/values ~ research fellow at @admscentre.org.au working on ADM, ecosystems & multispecies relationships
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Based on long-term field research with Aboriginal traditional owners, settler-descended cattle herders, and park rangers, Making Do by Mardi Reardon-Smith investigates complex ways in which people form, maintain, and transform relationships to changing environments.
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October 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Based on long-term field research with Aboriginal traditional owners, settler-descended cattle herders, and park rangers, Making Do by Mardi Reardon-Smith investigates complex ways in which people form, maintain, and transform relationships to changing environments.
https://ow.ly/4IjZ50XfkH3
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My book 'Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia' is out today with Stanford University Press. A long time coming and a big labour of love, I feel very excited to see this out in the world!
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My book 'Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia' is out today with Stanford University Press. A long time coming and a big labour of love, I feel very excited to see this out in the world!
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So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...
Making Do | Stanford University Press
Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been us...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...
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Not coming to #AusSTS25? You can catch each keynote, livestreamed here www.eventbrite.com/cc/aussts-20...
AusSTS 2025
Join the SSN and AusSTS for a series of free events in the week of 8- 11 July. We start off with the SSN's 'Doing Interdisciplinarity' on Tuesday afternoon, in-person at Deakin Downtown. This is follo...
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June 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Not coming to #AusSTS25? You can catch each keynote, livestreamed here www.eventbrite.com/cc/aussts-20...
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✨ Good morning Narrm!✨
It's day 1 of #AusSTS2025 and we are looking forward to three days of conversations, workshops, performances, and other experiments with all things #signalsandnoises📡🎛️
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It's day 1 of #AusSTS2025 and we are looking forward to three days of conversations, workshops, performances, and other experiments with all things #signalsandnoises📡🎛️
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AusSTS 2025 Signals and Noises Program
AusSTS 2025 Signals and Noises Conference Booklet Conference-on-a-page Conference organising committee Conference Program AusSTS Day 1 (NCM), Wednesday 9 July AusSTS Day 2 (Deakin Downtown), Thursday ...
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July 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
✨ Good morning Narrm!✨
It's day 1 of #AusSTS2025 and we are looking forward to three days of conversations, workshops, performances, and other experiments with all things #signalsandnoises📡🎛️
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
It's day 1 of #AusSTS2025 and we are looking forward to three days of conversations, workshops, performances, and other experiments with all things #signalsandnoises📡🎛️
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Delighted to be able to share the cover of my forthcoming book “Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia”, coming out in October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Read more about it here: www.sup.org/books/anthro...
Read more about it here: www.sup.org/books/anthro...
May 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Delighted to be able to share the cover of my forthcoming book “Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia”, coming out in October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Read more about it here: www.sup.org/books/anthro...
Read more about it here: www.sup.org/books/anthro...
a little late to mention, but a short essay I wrote on digitally mediated parasocial relationships with plants was published earlier this year in @overlandjournal.bsky.social
overland.org.au/2025/03/putr...
overland.org.au/2025/03/putr...
Putricia: digitally romancing a corpse flower - Overland literary journal
I’ve never been in the presence of a blossoming corpse flower. I’ve never breathed in the scent. But through my computer screen I could experience Putricia’s soft velvety folds, her firm but wilting s...
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May 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
a little late to mention, but a short essay I wrote on digitally mediated parasocial relationships with plants was published earlier this year in @overlandjournal.bsky.social
overland.org.au/2025/03/putr...
overland.org.au/2025/03/putr...
pleased that my article on the practice & politics of joint management in a north Australian national park is out now in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social Read it open access here: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....
"It's about getting the right people back on the right country!": Cultural difference and structural inequality in a northern Australian joint managed National Park
In recent decades, there has been a shift both globally and within Australia towards community engagement in protected area management. In Australia, this has manifested in Aboriginal participation an...
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March 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
pleased that my article on the practice & politics of joint management in a north Australian national park is out now in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social Read it open access here: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....
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CFP closing next week for #AusSTS2025! Don't miss this 🔥 list of plenary speakers including
Warwick Anderson
Kari Lancaster
Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh
Fabian Offert
Dang Nguyen
Kate Mannel
Chris O'Neill
Elizabeth Stephens
Jaya Keaney
& more!!
Deadline 14 March
Warwick Anderson
Kari Lancaster
Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh
Fabian Offert
Dang Nguyen
Kate Mannel
Chris O'Neill
Elizabeth Stephens
Jaya Keaney
& more!!
Deadline 14 March
The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
CFP closing next week for #AusSTS2025! Don't miss this 🔥 list of plenary speakers including
Warwick Anderson
Kari Lancaster
Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh
Fabian Offert
Dang Nguyen
Kate Mannel
Chris O'Neill
Elizabeth Stephens
Jaya Keaney
& more!!
Deadline 14 March
Warwick Anderson
Kari Lancaster
Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh
Fabian Offert
Dang Nguyen
Kate Mannel
Chris O'Neill
Elizabeth Stephens
Jaya Keaney
& more!!
Deadline 14 March
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The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference
The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters & making and doing, pre-submi…
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January 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
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📣Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚡SIGNALS AND NOISES⚡
9 - 11 July, 2025
Melbourne/Naarm
Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social
Ful CFP coming soon!
9 - 11 July, 2025
Melbourne/Naarm
Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social
Ful CFP coming soon!
January 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
📣Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚡SIGNALS AND NOISES⚡
9 - 11 July, 2025
Melbourne/Naarm
Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social
Ful CFP coming soon!
9 - 11 July, 2025
Melbourne/Naarm
Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social
Ful CFP coming soon!
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OnlineFirst - "In the weeds: Thinking through anthropological and other social science approaches to invasive plant species and their control" by @mardirs.bsky.social:
#weeds #invasiveplantspecies #vegetalpoliticalecology #colonialism #toxicities
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#weeds #invasiveplantspecies #vegetalpoliticalecology #colonialism #toxicities
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January 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
OnlineFirst - "In the weeds: Thinking through anthropological and other social science approaches to invasive plant species and their control" by @mardirs.bsky.social:
#weeds #invasiveplantspecies #vegetalpoliticalecology #colonialism #toxicities
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#weeds #invasiveplantspecies #vegetalpoliticalecology #colonialism #toxicities
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....