Acknowledgements
Our sincere thanks go to Michael Marder, editor of Brill’s “Critical Plant Studies” series, for his encouragement at the outset and to Meghan Connolly of the same press for her support of the project. As editors, we extend gratitude to our contributors, Nandi Chinna, Robin Ryan, and Juha Tolonen, for making Forest Family a truly distinctive and multimodal contribution to studies of Australian forests within the exciting framework of critical plant studies.
John Charles Ryan acknowledges the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, Perth, for his appointment as Honorary Research Fellow (2017–2020) and the School of Arts at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia, for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2017–2020). He also thanks the staff members of the Northcliffe Visitor Center and Fiona Sinclair of Southern Forest Arts for generously suggesting artists and artworks to include in Chapter 6. A condensed version of Chapter 6 was published as “ ‘Vegetable Giants of the West’: Plant Ethics in the Photography of Australian Karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) Forests, 1890 to the Present” in the Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (2016, 7.1: 61–83). John thanks the editor of the journal, Martina Horáková, and two anonymous referees for critical feedback that enhanced the discussion.
Rod Giblett is grateful to the Center for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education, and Communications (CREATEC) at Edith Cowan University for funding several research assistants, initially Christine Barton and John C. Ryan, and later Nandi Chinna and Juha Tolonen. An earlier version of Chapter 4 was first published as “Family Trees: Jarrah, Karri and the Gibletts of Manjimup” in Traces of an Active and Contemplative Life: 1983–2013 (Champaign, IL: Common Ground, 2013, 175–187). He is also grateful to Gail Ipsen Cutts, Director of Community Services, Shire of Manjimup, for her advice and suggestions.