Landscapes of Retreat - Rosetta S. Elkin Melbourne and alternative ways of living

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penetrates the untruths still beating in Western capitalism’s dark imperial neoliberal heart

the renowned eighteenth-century French portraitist and one of the most important women painters in art history

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Landscapes of Retreat - Rosetta S. Elkin Melbourne and alternative ways of livingWinner of the 2024 J. B. Jackson Book Award 'Landscapes of Retreat' offers a series of vivid, grounded portraits of climate adaptation. Here, retreat is not framed as defeat, but as a relational gesturefound in the shifting contours of land left behind as human settlement patterns change in response to a warming world. The landscape is understood not as passive terrain, but as living ground: animated by organisms, shaped by histories, and entwined