Welcome, Dr Mardi Reardon-Smith!
This year we are joined by Dr Mardi Reardon-Smith, Reseach Fellow to the ARC Centre of Excellent for Automated Decision-Making and Society, housed in the Emergin Technologies Research Lab. Mardi will be working on ADM, ecosystems and multispecies relationships in her 3 year position at the ETLab.
Mardi is an environmental anthropologist and early-career researcher interested in human-environment relations, political ecology, intercultural relationships and settler-colonial context and visual anthropology.
Her forthcoming book Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia, is under contract with Stanford University Press. The book explores the co-production of environmental knowledges, practices and care in Cape York Peninsula, far northeast Australia, a region of high and highly contested cultural, environmental, and economic values.