{"id":1274,"date":"2023-06-21T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:52:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T19:52:17","slug":"wild-country-with-clare-mccracken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/2023\/06\/21\/wild-country-with-clare-mccracken\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Country &#8211; Clare McCracken"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1274\" class=\"elementor elementor-1274\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75444ca e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"75444ca\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9bbfcbe e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9bbfcbe\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f741e71 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"f741e71\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;vimeo&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<iframe class=\"elementor-video-iframe\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" title=\"vimeo Video Player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/995404418?color&amp;autopause=0&amp;loop=0&amp;muted=0&amp;title=1&amp;portrait=0&amp;byline=0#t=\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-78b91188 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"78b91188\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3f186f0b\" data-id=\"3f186f0b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57eb92bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"57eb92bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Wild Country<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Clare McCracken<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p>The granite rocks of Mt Buffalo National Park (Victoria, Australia) are plentiful, charismatic, and large.\u00a0 The 300m vertical Gorge rockface is one of the largest cliffs in Australia. Climbers scale it throughout the summer months staying overnight on precarious camp beds dangling from ropes.\u00a0 However, the majestic rocks of the mountain have also been captured since colonisation, in sublime paintings by some of Australia\u2019s most well-known colonial artists (Eugene von Gu\u00e9rard and Nicholas Chevalier) and by photographers from the 1860s on (see Hore 2022).\u00a0 These paintings and photographs led to the area being protected as a notational park in 1898.<\/p><p>This live video from a remote rock within the Mt Buffalo National Park starts with my memories of a hike up the north rockface of the mountain at the age of 16.\u00a0 Squeezing between the snow gum filled crevasses of the rocks we slowly worked our way to the top where a surprised national parks worker declared that surely, I was the first \u2018girl\u2019 to climb such a rock face. Narratives of \u2018bagging\u2019 peaks and being the first are common in settler-colonial states. Along with the circulation of images that crop out Australia\u2019s First People, they have perpetuated a myth that mountains such as Buffalo were ecological paradises free from human touch or barely \u2018touched\u2019.\u00a0 However, as Jaquie Durrant\u2019s research has revealed Mount Buffalo was, for at least 40,000 years cared for by the Mogullumbidj people (2020).<\/p><p>Inspired by Alfred North Whitehead\u2019s questioning of non-human consciousness (1929) this live video will conclude by \u2018thinking with the rock\u2019 to imagine forgotten pasts of violence, extraction and extinction and speculative futures. In movements designed to bring me closer to the rock I will \u2018think with it\u2019, to acknowledge the ecological and social losses it has experienced since the area\u2019s colonisation in the early 1850s and its bleak future. Located in the Australian Alps the rocks of Mt Buffalo are surrounded by a fragile ecology that are already catastrophically affected by climate change.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Country Clare McCracken The granite rocks of Mt Buffalo National Park (Victoria, Australia) are plentiful, charismatic, and large.\u00a0 The 300m vertical Gorge rockface is one of the largest cliffs in Australia. Climbers scale it throughout the summer months staying overnight on precarious camp beds dangling from ropes.\u00a0 However, the majestic rocks of the mountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":1515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rocky-futures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/rocky-climates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}