Since the 1960s, the defence of nature in Australia has been predominantly and explicitly organised around the idea of wilderness and, more implicitly, around its antithesis, the city. In this defence, real, authentic nature is argued to begin at road's end, beyond the lights of the city. By implication, the sub/urban majority of the population has been understood to live in tragically fallen environments in which dreams of escape offer most hope of reunion with nature. Over the last fifteen years, stories of nature not built around the purity of wilderness and the impurity of the city have begun to be told with increasing confidence. Many of these 'new' natures bring with them strategies of nature advocacy that offer a less dispiriting picture of urban and suburban environments. These strategies are an important yet ill-understood aspect of the growing diversity and complexity of environmental social movements in Australia. This paper investigates some of these recent changes by, first, surveying recent academic and public interest in urban nature in Australia, and, second, relating this interest to analysis of environmental social movements via a preliminary report on interviews with members of The Greens and The Wilderness Society living in Hobart and Perth. This research focuses on the often dissonant relationship between life-histories, everyday sub/urban experience and environmentalist discourse. It seeks to extend understanding not just of the on-going re-invention of environmental concern, but also to advance discussion about sub/urban sustainability through exploring possibilities for a more self-reflexive environmentalist advocacy of nature.
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机译：自1960年代以来，澳大利亚的自然保护主要围绕荒野这一概念而进行，并且明确地围绕其对立面-城市进行了组织。在这种防御中，人们认为真实，真实的本性始于道路的尽头，超出了城市的灯光。言下之意，据了解，亚/城市大多数人口生活在悲惨的堕落环境中，在其中逃生的梦想为与大自然的团聚提供了最大希望。在过去的十五年中，关于自然的故事并没有建立在纯净的旷野和城市的杂质周围，人们对此充满信心。这些“新”自然中的许多自然带来了自然倡导战略，这些战略所提供的城市和郊区环境的前景不那么令人沮丧。这些策略是澳大利亚环境社会运动日益多样化和复杂性的一个重要但尚未被理解的方面。本文首先调查了这些最近的变化，首先调查了澳大利亚学术界和公众对城市自然风光的兴趣，其次，通过对《绿党》和《 The Greens》成员进行访谈的初步报告，将这种兴趣与对环境社会运动的分析联系起来。居住在霍巴特和珀斯的荒野学会。这项研究的重点是生活史，日常的郊区/城市经历和环保主义者话语之间经常不协调的关系。它不仅寻求对正在进行的环境关注的重新发明的理解，而且还通过探索对自然进行更自我反思的环保主义倡导的可能性，来推进关于郊区/城市可持续性的讨论。
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