Listening to Michael-Shawn Fletcher's keynote at IAWF's Fire & Climate conference in Melbourne of 2022 remains one of my favourite experiences of my PhD. MSF beautifully highlights the absolute absurdity/offensiveness of the "wildlands" concept/fallacy as an extension of terra nullius - and at the International Association of Wildland Fire conference, no less. I agree that it is perhaps not a large leap to apply this or similar criticisms to "wildfire".
I have found it easy to avoid the term "wildlands" (a price worth paying to potentially forgo hits for the WUI buzzword). Certainly replacing "wildfire" becomes harder, especially when writing for an international audience...
I still like to submit to the IJW(ildland)F... Is there a precedent or process for renaming a journal, dear associate editor? Is that even the right thing to do?
Listening to Michael-Shawn Fletcher's keynote at IAWF's Fire & Climate conference in Melbourne of 2022 remains one of my favourite experiences of my PhD. MSF beautifully highlights the absolute absurdity/offensiveness of the "wildlands" concept/fallacy as an extension of terra nullius - and at the International Association of Wildland Fire conference, no less. I agree that it is perhaps not a large leap to apply this or similar criticisms to "wildfire".
I have found it easy to avoid the term "wildlands" (a price worth paying to potentially forgo hits for the WUI buzzword). Certainly replacing "wildfire" becomes harder, especially when writing for an international audience...
I still like to submit to the IJW(ildland)F... Is there a precedent or process for renaming a journal, dear associate editor? Is that even the right thing to do?
great comment Doug, thanks very much. You raise a very interesting question. Perhaps that can be the topic of my next post...
Keeping me on the edge of my seat!
I also wait impatiently to see what budding star Cait will do with the upcoming PhD project... Exciting!