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

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!

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...

Not coming to #AusSTS25? You can catch each keynote, livestreamed here www.eventbrite.com/cc/aussts-20...

✨ 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...

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...

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...

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....

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

The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

📣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!

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....