Kinship with Nature in this Time of Loss: Can Animism Help Revitalise the Commons?

Dr. Deborah Bird Rose is the author the acclaimed Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction, published by University of Virginia Press (2011), the recently re-released ethnography Dingo Makes Us Human (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Country of the Heart: An Indigenous Australian Homeland (Aboriginal Studies Press 2009), Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation (UNSW Press, 2004) and Nourishing Terrains (Australian Heritage Commission, 1996). She has worked with Aboriginal people in their claims to land and in other decolonising contexts, and in both scholarly and practical arenas her work is focused on the entanglements of human and nonhuman lives and cultures.