Nonfiction by Merrill Findlay, Australian writer

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HOME ABOUT MERRILL FINDLAY NON-FICTION FICTION CCD PROJECTS SITE MAP CONTACT		Selected non-fiction: the archives Published essays, feature articles, books and book chapters by Australian writer Merrill Findlay Interconnected Themes Senses of place and ecological sustainability >> Indigenous Australia >> Human rights, social justice and sustainability >> War, peace and conflict resolution >> Cultural development >> Futures >> NEW: Breasting cancer in the bush: a personal story about surviving breast cancer in 2007 [posted 6 February 2008] >> PLUS Re-imagining Australia's futures : Special double issue of British peer reviewed journal, Futures (v. 39/2-3, March 2007) guest edited by Merrill Findlay, in which contributors call for *radical systemic change, for an intellectual and cultural revolution, a complete renewal of both civil society and our public institutions ....* More >> Also check out Merrill's fiction and her CCD projects Senses of place and ecological sustainability 2008 Understanding place through narrative: changing who we are and the places we love with stories. Book chapter for Making Sense of Place edited by Frank Vanclay, Jeff Malpas, Matthew Higgins and Adam Blackshaw, National Museum of Australia, 2008. Preprint version >> [pdf 179 kb] 2007 Riverstories: genealogies of a threatened river system A response to philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s challenge: "I can only answer the question What am I to do? if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'". For the British journal Futures v. 39 (2007) pp 306-323 [219kb] >> 2005 Romancing the grindstone on Gunningbland Creek A reflective essay about the now-bleak future of an ephemeral creek that passes through my family's farm. For the British journal Futures 37:8, October 2005 >> [pdf 143 kb] 2002 Rehabilitating the Danube River: essay based on a workshop I conducted in Hungary, August 2001, and published in Changing Values-Forming New Societies, edited by Erzsebet Novaky, Tamas Gaspar, Gergely Tyukodi, published by the UNESCO and the Futures Studies Centre, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, Budapest, 2002. ISBN 963 503 288 9. >> 2000 Ecologically Sustainable Development: the last ten years >> An overview of Australia's progress towards a more ecologically sustainable society, for the National Parks Journal, NSW National Parks Association Inc, October 2000. >> 2000 Greening Academia (or trying to!) >> Article on 'environmental literacy' and the Talloires Declaration, for RMIT Openline June 2000. >> 1991 Sunset on High Temperature Incineration >> Article about citizen action to stop construction of a toxic waste incinerator, in rural New South Wales. Rejected by the mainstream press as 'too political' >> 1990 Climate change: culture change >> Reflective e ssay on Lake Mungo, a Pleistocene lake bed in southwestern New South Wales and one of Australia's most significant sacred sites. First published in Habitat Australia, October 1990 >> 1988 Greening the family farm >> Article on revegetating the author's family farm in central New South Wales. Published in Habitat Australia, February 1988 >> Indigenous Australia 1998 The timeless bond between birds and people >> Essay commissioned by The Age, Melbourne, about the mutton bird season on Big Dog Island in Bass Strait, published in Saturday Extra, 22 August 1998. With photos by Sandy Scheltema. >> 1996 Eddie Mabo comes home >> Feature on the return of Eddie Mabo's remains to Las, his ancestral home on Mer, or Murray Island, p ublished in Good Weekend, June 1996. >> Human rights, social justice and sustainability Into our ethnic 'heartlands': a journey Left: Ethnic Tajik refugees from Afghanistan wait at a Refugee Registration Centre in Quetta to receive their biometric Proof of Registration card identifying them as temporary residents of Pakistan. Without this card they could be arrested and deported back to Afghanistan. Photo by Merrill Findlay, October 2006. A narrative meditation on the 2001 'Tampa Incident' drawing on the author's engagement with refugees and asylum seekers in Australia, her travels in countries from which asylum seekers are fleeing and visits to refugee settlements in the Pakistan-Afghan border regions, her interests in the processes of decolonisation, and her own rural background. More >> 2003-04 Reviews for Overland magazine >> Asylum seeking and perilous journeys, reviews of books by Morris Gleitzman, Tom Keneally, Janet Austin (ed), Tom Mann, Frank Brennan and James Jupp on refugees; and Genre-bending .., a review of Merle Thorton's After Moonlight. >> War, peace and conflict resolution 2007 Balochistan, the invisible war: politics, land and terror in remote Pakistan >> [pdf 126kb] Article from Merrill's recent field trip to Pakistan, first published in Arena Magazine, October/November 2007 >> 1991 East Timor: it's time to talk >> Presentation to the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation, New York, 7 August, 1991, on behalf of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, and the East Timor Talks Campaign >> 1991 East Timor: the story so far >> essay published as a broadsheet by the East Timor Talks campaign, September 1991 >> 1989 Eritrea: just a question of time >> Feature on Eritrea's war of liberation and the parallel social transformation. First published by the Canberra Times, 7 June 1989 >> 1989 Eritrea: the miracle >> Feature on the social revolution in Eritrea as witnessed in 1988-89. First published in Habitat Australia, December 1989 >> 1981 Over paid, over sexed and over here: American sailors in Perth >> Feature about the invasion of Perth by the US Navy's Indian Ocean fleet for About Town magazine, December 1981. This was one of many features for the Perth press in the early 1980s >> Cultural development 2004 Square Earth: a catalogue essay >> A exegesis on the work of Vietnamese-Australian artist, Le Van Tai to accompany a travelling exhibition of his work. PDF version (150 k) with images >> Read Le Van Tai's autobiographical stories in Redreaming the plain, and listen to an ABC documentary on his life and work. (Verbatim, ABC Radio National, 8 March, 2003.) 2001 Redreaming the plains >> an e-journal about 'sustainability' developed for Imagine The Future Inc, with funding from the Australian Film Commission and other project partners. >> 2001 Merino Sheep as Cultural Heritage >> feature based on Findlay's field research in Spain published by Top Sire, the journal of the Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders Limited >> 2000 Literature as a tourist asset ... >> "Non-paper" presented at the Changing Geographies: Australia and the millennium conference, 1st Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, 2-4 February, 2000. >> 1990 Mining Melbourne's Past >> Article on an archaeological dig in Little Lonsdale Street, central Melbourne, published in Habitat Australia, August 1990 >> 1986 Why document? Working paper no. 9 (Arts Victoria 1986, ISBN 0-7241-3988-5 >> Publication commissioned by the Victorian Community Arts Resource Centre in 1986 examining 'community arts' praxis in Victoria. Full text to be republished on this site soon. 1984 Carnarvon: Reflections of a country town (Shire of Carnarvon 1984, ISBN 0-9529109-0-3) >> A book celebrating the centenary of the Shire of Carnarvon in Western Australia and one of the outcomes of a 6 month Arts Council residency in the Gascoyne region in 1983. Futures 2007 Re-imagining Australia's futures >> Special double issue of the UK peer reviewed journal, Futures (Vol 39/2-3, March-April 2007) guest edited by Merrill Findlay. -- Full contents >> -- Merrill's Introductory essay to the special double issue [pdf 111kb] >> -- Riverstories: genealogies of a threatened river system [219kb] >> -- Preprint versions of the essays on Redreaming the plains >> 2001 Complex Questions for Futures Studies >> Reflections on the 17th international conference of the World Futures Studies Federation, Brasov, Romania, September 5-9, 2001, commissioned by the British journal Futures >> 1994 The power of positive imaginings >> invited presentation to the Altona Sustainable Development Congress, Altona Civic Centre, July 26 1994 >> 1994 On the flutterings of butterfly wings >> chaotic reflections on the future of the world, presented in Brisbane, 1994 >> © This material is subject to copyright and any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited. Content last revised 21 January 2008.