Plant-Human Futurisms in The Australian Tropics: Native Grasses and The Carbon_Dating Art Project
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.
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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.
| Item ID: | 88631 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1448-2940 |
| Keywords: | Australian Tropics, Indigenous Futurisms, native grasses, plant blindness, plant-human relations, socially-engaged art |
| Copyright Information: | © 2025 the authors. Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 free to download, save and reproduce. |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2026 07:23 |
| FoR Codes: | 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3103 Ecology > 310308 Terrestrial ecology @ 50% 45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4503 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges and management > 450304 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 21 INDIGENOUS > 2104 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and culture > 210404 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge @ 100% |
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