Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language Volume 9 Issue 1 Landscape: Heritage II Article 1 April 2019 Complete Issue 1, Volume 9 Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/landscapes Part of the American Studies Commons, Australian Studies Commons, Creative Writing Commons, East Asian Languages and Societies Commons, English Language and Literature Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Fine Arts Commons, French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, History Commons, History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, Human Geography Commons, Music Commons, Nature and Society Relations Commons, Philosophy Commons, Photography Commons, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons, and the Rhetoric and Composition Commons Recommended Citation (2019). Complete Issue 1, Volume 9. Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, 9(1). Retrieved from https://ro.ecu.edu.au/landscapes/vol9/iss1/1 This Complete Issue is posted at Research Online. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/landscapes/vol9/iss1/1 et al.: Complete Issue 1, Volume 9 Contents ISSUE INTRODUCTION BY ICLL DIRECTOR, HON PROFESSOR GLEN PHILLIPS, BEd Hons, MEd, PhD. ......................................................................................................... 2 Solastalgia, Nostalgia, Exhilarating, Immersive: Landscapes: Heritage II ....................... 4 In the Name of Profit: Canada’s Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve as Economic Development and Colonial Placemaking ......................................................................... 10 Landscapes as Identity and Cultural Heritage in Animation – The Australian Bushland, Japanese Urban Agglomeration and Eurasian Steppes ................................................... 39 “‘The Strata of My History’: Reading the Ecological Chronotope in Wendell Berry’s That Distant Land” ............................................................................................................ 55 Forest-Walks – An Intangible Heritage in Movement: A Walk-and-Talk Study of a Social Practice Tradition ................................................................................................... 79 The Junk That 8 K-Town (View-Master Haiku Series 1, 2 & 3) ...................................... 105 Hard Data, Soft Data ......................................................................................................... 117 Plunging Down Under ...................................................................................................... 118 SNORKEL VIRGIN ............................................................................................................ 119 North Sea poems ............................................................................................................... 121 Zemlja and Pioneer Day ................................................................................................... 138 Fortunates Part 1 .............................................................................................................. 144 Shadow over Mount Barren ............................................................................................. 162 Review of Environmental Humanities and Theologies: Ecoculture, Literature and the Bible, by Rod Giblett. ....................................................................................................... 166 Published by Research Online, 2019 1 Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, Vol. 9, Iss. 1 [2019], Art. 1 ISSUE INTRODUCTION BY ICLL DIRECTOR, HON PROFESSOR GLEN PHILLIPS, BEd Hons, MEd, PhD. In this 2018/9 Issue of Landscapes, Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, our Issue Editor is David Gray1 of Sweden’s Dalarna University College where he teaches in the English Department of the School of Humanities and Media. David joins previous editors and Principals of the ICLL, Professors Andrew Taylor, John Kinsella, Yang Yongchun and Drew Hubbell and Dr John Charles Ryan as executive editors for our e-journal of some twenty years’ existence here at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. Professor Hubbell has given much time to smoothing the transition from his recent stewardship over the last two years to ensure that David has more than maintained the Journal’s standards of which we have all become jealously proud. We thank both David and Drew for their steadfast support for Landscapes and their immeasurable contribution to the International Centre for Landscape and Language these past several years. As in previous issues, the core of the journal’s content is the group of research essays focussed on landscape themes, while the ‘language’ component is well represented mainly by short stories and poetry on a wide range of topics. Our editorial consultants and referees have worked hard to select and improve the content of this issue and we thank them profusely and sincerely. We are also advised by Executive Dean Professor Clive Barstow of the School of Arts and Humanities and thank him for his encouragement in particular for the growing internationalisation of Landscapes. It is our policy to further extend the international links for the journal and we have begun discussions with a former ECU ‘post-doc’ scholar, Professor Ryszard W Wolny, Director of the Institute of English and American Studies and Head of Department of 1 Dalarna University, English Department, School of Humanities and Media Studies, Högskolegatan 2, SE-791 88, Falun https://ro.ecu.edu.au/landscapes/vol9/iss1/1 2 et al.: Complete Issue 1, Volume 9 Anglophone Cultures at the University of Opole, Poland, with a view to enlisting his support. Glen R E Phillips, February, 2019. Published by Research Online, 2019 3 Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, Vol. 9, Iss. 1 [2019], Art. 1 Solastalgia, Nostalgia, Exhilarating, Immersive: Landscapes: Heritage II David Francis Gray (Dalarna University, Sweden) Through 2017/18, as the submissions for our thematic issue Landscapes: Heritage came together, it became apparent that a single issue would not be enough to contain the overwhelming number of responses that we received from Landscapes editor Drew Hubbell’s original call for contributions. Thus the editors decided to spread the contributions across two issues, which has been connected in the title for this issue, Volume 9, as Landscape: Heritage II. Volume 8 continues to surpass the download statistics for an individual issue of Landscapes, which is testimony to Drew’s sense of the importance of the topic. And yet this acknowledges too the talent and craft of current and previous editors Glen Phillips and John Ryan, as well as the enduring support of Executive Dean Professor Clive Barstow of the School of Arts and Humanities at ECU. It is these people who make the journal possible, and yet, ultimately it is the contributors who seasonally breathe life into Landscapes and the environmental humanities. Since the last issue and throughout the submissions and revisions phase of Volume 9, there has been further cause to reflect on the interrelationship of heritage with landscape. The frightening consequences of this relationship was defined once again by (man-made) natural disasters. The wildfire season of 2018 in California is regarded in general, as one of the worst on record. More specifically, there was an ominously rich irony to the scenes of the Camp Fire that engulfed and ultimately decimated the small countryside town of Paradise, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The language used to report on the devastation caused by this wildfire often described “hellish” or “apocalyptic” scenes, and while the Inferno of Dante’s Divine Comedy might have sprung to mind, it was the imagery of the Hollywood environmental-disaster movie Dante’s Peak (1997) that many used for comparison. The California wildfires of 2018 were also not the only abnormal forest fires in the northern hemisphere. Sweden experienced an atypically long period of hot and dry weather during the summer months, which resulted in forest fires from the south of the https://ro.ecu.edu.au/landscapes/vol9/iss1/1 4 et al.: Complete Issue 1, Volume 9 country up to the Arctic Circle – a pattern that has been largely blamed on intensive forest-farming practices. Fortunately, these fires did not affect populated areas in the same way as California, though the share scale and the speed of expansion of the fires led the Swedish government to request assistance through the Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC). Along with Canadian firefighting aircraft, there were firefighters from Italy, Germany, Poland, Norway and Denmark in Sweden to try and contain three mega-fires in mid-Sweden during the summer of 2018, which covered an area of around 25000 ha. Incidentally, it was only a few months after these fires that 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began her school-strike outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, appalled at the level of inertia shown by adults and politicians in the face of climate change; her stand has since led to similar student-led strikes around the world. Forest fires are certainly nothing new for California or Sweden, but the scale and geography of the fires of 2018 are what seems to be alarming scientists. The phenomenon of wildfires occurring in regions that are not normally affected, or are little