MARDI REARDON-SMITH
Dr Mardi Reardon-Smith is a Research Fellow at the Monash University node of the ARC Centre of Excellent for Automated Decision-Making and Society.
Mardi is an environmental anthropologist and science and technology studies (STS) researcher who specialises in the study of the social dimensions of environmental management in intercultural contexts. At ADM+S, she is working on the ADM, ecosystems and multispecies relationships project.
She has published on topics including the joint management of protected areas, the co-creation of environmental knowledges, and human relationships to invasive plant (weed) species and their control. Her work appears in journals such as Geoforum, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, and Ethnos.
Her research process includes making photographs and film, and her work has been shown domestically and internationally at gallery spaces and film festivals. Mardi’s forthcoming book ‘Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia’ is under contract with Stanford University Press.
