THE NEED TO SHIFT MINDSETS
Here there is an example of a MINDset that demonstrates that that bureaucratic administrations in Australia are not staffed with people who understand the CULTURALlandscapes where plants like bamboo, hemp, the bananas, coconuts, the willows, poplars, mimosa etc. All misunderstood and generally all are mismanaged in most Australian landscapes. Concerningly, most of this plants have much to offer in the context of the new evolving ecologies in the postcolonial cultural realties now being experienced.
In Tasmania hemp has found supporters and growers and hemp along with bamboo are two plants touted as being salvation plants.
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Firstly, it has to he said that in no way can bamboo be seen as
any kind of SILVERbullet. That cannot be claimed for any class
of plant life even endemic plants that evolved in a cultural
landscape where the ecological 'balance point' was fundamentally different pre-colonisation to the current cultural and ecological realities in Tasmania and other colonised places.
Fundamentally, cultural landscaping in Tasmania is a colonial
cultural construct and something that has evolved within a
mindset where the imperatives of elsewhere have become paramount.
Opportunities to develop an ecologically sustainable cultural
landscapes in colonised places have been missed and ignored in
deference to the imperatives and aspirations of elsewhere – in Tasmania and other colonised places/geographies.
Tasmania, is an interesting case study in that its 'placedness' is deeply impacted upon by Eurocentric colonial mindsets, plus the needs of and the sensibilities of elsewhere – typically the MOTHERland, blighted as that notion is by the terra nullius concept.
Moreover, the 'place' is an island with its own idiosyncratic and well defined geographies. Moreover, it is time that the lutruwitaTASMANIA islands' cultural realities are seriously engaged with rhizomatically towards the development of sustainable cultural landscaping in Tasmania. TOPdown (autocratic?) planning in places like lutruwitaTASMANIA, with histories like lutruwitaTASMANIA's, is ever likely to be contentious and contested.
Colonial and post-colonial TOPdown cultural landscaping has been exploitative with 'local' ecological sustainability not being a priority just so long as there was a 'market' elsewhere for lutruwitaTASMANIA's resources. It is what it is as is the
outcome.
Here it is worth mentioning that pre-colonisation ponrabbelLAUCESTON [LINK]this place was possibly lutruwitaTASMANIA's most abundant place. Colonisation along with the terra nullius concept saw this abundance exploited relentlessly. Curiously, the colonisers at one stage were starving and needed to seek 'rations' from elsewhere. So, the case for colonial and post-colonial unsustainable environmental management is clear and compelling. The current 'GREENING' might not be required otherwise.
Bamboo along lutruwitaTASMANIA's endemic plants, Australia's
native cum exotic plants and the world's exotic cool temperate plants together all have a niche' in the 'construction' of a sustaining cultural landscape.
Determining those niches' needs to be:
- Structured 'rhizomatically' rather than hierarchically; and
- Facilitated rather than imposed; and
- Arrived at organically rather than administratively.
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