How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent

A critical and ethnographic exploration of wildfire management in Australia, one of Earth's most fire-prone countries, Timothy Neale's How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent critiques the colonial logics of control deployed to manage unruly environments and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship.

Each year, Australia faces increasingly unprecedented wildfires, marked both by their scale and by the intense public disagreements about their political, cultural, and ecologic...