{"title":"Inga Simpson’s undestory, A life with trees. A taxonomy of Australian landscape","authors":"Nunziana Mastrangelo","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P203","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This essay focuses on Inga Simpson’s Understory: A Life with Trees (2017) through which Australian flora and fauna become a powerful expression of her ecological activism and bioregional awareness. This will be analyzed by using Riane Eisler’s biocultural partnership-domination paradigm to highlight the relationship between Australian culture and its natural environment, in particular the threatening impact of human beings and climate change. Simpson’s interest in the ‘cognitive’ functions of plants (recognitions, learning mechanisms and remembrance) will also show significant analogies with Monica Gagliano and Stefano Mancuso’s studies.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"10 1","pages":"203-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Lingue e Linguaggi","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P203","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay focuses on Inga Simpson’s Understory: A Life with Trees (2017) through which Australian flora and fauna become a powerful expression of her ecological activism and bioregional awareness. This will be analyzed by using Riane Eisler’s biocultural partnership-domination paradigm to highlight the relationship between Australian culture and its natural environment, in particular the threatening impact of human beings and climate change. Simpson’s interest in the ‘cognitive’ functions of plants (recognitions, learning mechanisms and remembrance) will also show significant analogies with Monica Gagliano and Stefano Mancuso’s studies.
这篇文章的重点是英加·辛普森的Understory: A Life with Trees(2017),通过这本书,澳大利亚的动植物成为她生态活动和生物区域意识的有力表达。这将通过使用Riane Eisler的生物文化伙伴关系-支配范式来分析,以突出澳大利亚文化与其自然环境之间的关系,特别是人类和气候变化的威胁影响。辛普森对植物的“认知”功能(识别、学习机制和记忆)的兴趣也将与莫妮卡·加利亚诺和斯特凡诺·曼库索的研究有重要的相似之处。