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Mardi Reardon-Smith is an environmental anthropologist and
early-career researcher interested in human-environment relations, political
ecology, intercultural relationships in settler-colonial contexts, and visual
anthropology. She is currently employed as a
postdoctoral research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.
Her book Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia (Stanford University Press) is due for release 21st October 2025 and is available to purchase here. 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.
I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the stolen-never-ceded lands I live, work, and think on, the people of the Kulin Nations.