Professor Veronica Strang - all publications

Authored book

• Strang, V. (Forthcoming). Water Beings: from nature worship to the current environmental crisis.
• Strang, V. (Forthcoming). What Anthropologists Do. London, New York: Bloomsbury Press.
• Strang, V. (2015). Water: nature and culture. Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press.
• Strang, V. (2009). Gardening the World: agency, identity, and the ownership of water. New York & Oxford: Berghahn.
• Strang, V. (2009). What Anthropologists Do. Oxford, New York: Berg/Bloomsbury.
• Strang, V. (2004). The Meaning of Water. Oxford, New York: Berg/Bloomsbury.
• Strang, V. (1997). Uncommon Ground: cultural landscapes and environmental values. Berg.
• Strang, V. (1988). Citizen's Guide to Environmental Assessment. Government of Ontario Press.
• Strang, V. (1986). Acidification: Warning Signs, Ministry of the Environment. Toronto: Government of Ontario.

Book review

• Strang, V. (2019). A Future History of Water. Political and Legal Anthropology Review
• Strang, V. (2018). Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia, by Timothy Neale. Anthropological Forum 28(3): 325-327.
• Strang, V. (2012). People At The Well: kinds, usages and meanings of water in a global perspective, by Hahn, P., Cless, K., Soentgen, J. (eds). Anthropos 108 (H.1): 323-324.

Chapter in book

• Strang, V. (Forthcoming). Identity and Agency. In Cambridge University Press Handbook of Material Culture Studies. De Cunzo, L. & Roeber, C. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Strang, V. (Forthcoming). Leadership in Principle: Uniting Nations (and Theory) to Consider the Cultural Values of Water. In Water and the Humanities. Faletti, R., López-Calvo, I. & De Wolff K. California: University of California Press.
• Strang, V. (Forthcoming). Materialising the State: the meaning of water infrastructure. In Shifting States. Dundon, A. & Vokes, R. London, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
• Strang, V (Forthcoming). Seeing Through the Rainbow: Aboriginal Australian concepts of an ordered universe. In Order Into Action: large-scale categories of order in the pre-modern world. Oschema, K. & Mauntel, C. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers.
• Strang, V. (Forthcoming). Water. In Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Stein, F., Lazar, S., Stasch, R. Robbins, J. Sanchez, A., Candea, M. & Diemberger, H. Cambridge University: open access.
• Strang, V. (Forthcoming). Water. In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia. Aldenderfer, M. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Strang, V. (2020). The Rights of the River: water, culture and ecological justice. In People and Parks: integrating social and ecological justice. Kopnina, H. & Washington, H. New York: Springer. 105-119.
• Strang, V. (2019). The Meaning of Water to Health: antipodean perspectives on the ‘substance of life’. In Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing: Hydrophilia Unbounded. Foley, R., Kearns, R., Kisteman, T. & Wheeler, B. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
• Strang, V. (2018). Foreword. In Water, Meaning and Creativity: multidisciplinary understandings of human-water relationships. Roberts, E. & Phillips, K. London: Routledge.
• Strang, V. (2018). Water Rights. In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Callan, H. New Jersey: John Wiley.
• Strang, V. (2017). Justice for All: inconvenient truths and reconciliation in human-non-human relations. In Routledge International Handbook of Environmental Anthropology. Kopnina, H. & Shoreman-Ouimet, E. London, New York: Routledge. 259-275.
• Strang, V. (2017). The Gaia Complex: bioethical challenges to an anthropocentric ‘common future'. In Anthropological Visions of Sustainable Futures. London, New York: London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Strang, V. (2016). Re-imagined Communities: a new ethical approach to water policy. In The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy. Conca, C. & Weinthal, E. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
• Strang, V. (2015). Reflecting Nature: water beings in history and imagination. In Waterworlds: anthropology in fluid environments. Hastrup, K. & Hastrup, F. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books. 247-278.
• Strang, V. (2013). Conceptual Relations: water, ideologies, and theoretical subversions. In Thinking With Water. Chen, C., Macleod, J. & Neimanis, A. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. 185-211.
• Strang, V. (2013). Dam Nation: Cubbie Station and the waters of the Darling. In The Social Life of Water in a Time of Crisis. Wagner, J. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books. 36-60.
• Strang, V. (2012). Diverting Water: cultural plurality and public water features in an urban environment. In Water, Cultural Diversity and Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?. Johnston, B., Hiwasaki, L., Klaver, I., Ramos-Castillo, A. & Strang, V. Paris, Dordrecht, New York: Springer and UNESCO. 97-116.
• Strang, V. (2012). Extremely Private: water trading and the commoditization of water. In Water, Cultural Diversity and Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?. Johnston, B., Hiwasaki, L., Klaver, I., Ramos-Castillo, A. & Strang, V. Paris, Dordrecht, New York: Springer and UNESCO. 257-260.
• Strang, V. (2012). Water, Land and Territory. In A Handbook of Social Anthropology. Fardon, R., Harris, O., Marchand, T., Nuttall, M., Shore, C., Strang, V. & Wilson, R. London: Sage. 312-328.
• Strang, V. (2011). Elusive Forms: materiality and cultural diversity in the ownership of water. In Property Rights and Sustainability: the evolution of property rights to meet ecological challenges. Grinlinton, D. & Taylor, P. Leiden: Brill | Nijhoff. 195-218.
• Strang, V. (2011). Fluid Forms: owning water in Australia. In Ownership and Appropriation. Busse, M. & Strang, V. Berg. 171-195.
• Busse, M. & Strang, V. (2011). Introduction. In Ownership and Appropriation. ASA Monographs. Oxford, New York: Berg. 1-20.
• Strang, V. (2010). Mapping histories cultural landscapes and walkabout methods. In Environmental Social Sciences: Methods and Research Design. Vaccaro, I., Smith, E.A. & Aswani, S. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 132-156.
• Strang, V. (2009). Water and Indigenous Religion: Aboriginal Australia. In The Idea of Water. Tvedt, T. & Oestigaard, T. London: I.B Tauris. 343-377.
• Strang, V. (2009). Water in Aboriginal Australia. In Ideas of Water from Ancient Societies to the Modern World. Tvedt, T. & Oestigaard, T. London: I.B Tauris. 1: 343-377.
• Strang, V. (2009). Water Sports: a tug-of-war over the river. In Tourism Power and Culture: anthropological perspectives. Carrier, J. & Macleod, D. Bristol: Channel View Press. 27-46.
• Strang, V. (2008). Blue, Green and Red: combining energies in defence of water. In Deep Blue: critical reflections on nature, religion and water. Shaw, S. & Francis, A. London: Equinox Publishing. 253-274.
• Strang, V (2008). Commentary. In River Journeys. Scheibenbogen, Silvia Brisbane: International RiverFoundation. 51.
• Strang, V. (2008). Introduction. In Water Ways: competition and communality in the use and management of water. Strang, V. & Toussaint, S. Special Issue of Oceania. 78: 1-4.
• Strang, V. (2008). The Social Construction of Water. In Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. David, B. & Thomas, J. World Archaeological Congress (WAC) Research Handbook Series, Walnut Creek CA: Left Coast Press. 123-130.
• Strang, V. (2008). Uncommon ground landscapes as social geography. In Handbook of landscape archaeology. David, B. & Thomas, J. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast. 51-59.
• Strang, V. (2008). Wellsprings of Belonging: water and community regeneration in Queensland. In Water Ways: competition and communality in the use and management of water. Strang, V. & Toussaint, S. Special Issue of Oceania. 78: 30-45.
• Strang, V. (2006). Aqua Culture: the flow of cultural meanings in water. In Water: histories, cultures, ecologies. Leybourne, M. & Gaynor, A. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press. 68-80.
• Strang, V. & Garner, A. (2006). Introduction. In Fluidscapes: water, identity and the senses. Strang, V. & Garner, A. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 10: 147-154.
• Strang, V. (2006). Substantial Connections: water and identity in an English cultural landscapes. In Fluidscapes: water, identity and the senses. Strang, V. & Garner, A. Brill Academic Publishers. 10: 155-177.
• Strang, V. (2005). Meaningful Differences: dis-integrated management in the Mitchell River catchment. In Sustainable Environments, Sustainable Communities: Potential Dialogues between Anthropologists, Scientists and Managers. Minnegal, M. Melbourne: The University of Melbourne. 60-69.
• Strang, V. (2005). Taking the Waters: cosmology, gender and material culture in the appropriation of water resources. In Water, Gender and Development. Coles, A. & Wallace, T. Oxford, New York: Berg. 21-38.
• Strang, V. (2004). Close Encounters of the Third World Kind: indigenous knowledge and relations to land. In Development and Local Knowledge: new approaches to issues in natural resources management, conservation and agriculture. Bicker, A., Pottier, J. & Sillitoe, P. London: Routledge. 93-117.
• Strang, V. (2004). Humans, Water Use and Resource Management. In Social Innovations in Natural Resource Management: a handbook of social research in natural resource management in Queensland. Richards, C. & Aitken, L. Queensland: Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Queensland Government. 81-83.
• Strang, V. (2004). Poisoning the Rainbow: cosmology and pollution in Cape York’. In Mining and Indigenous Lifeworlds in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Rumsey, A. & Weiner, J. Wantage: Sean Kingston Publishing. 208-225.
• Strang, V. (2004). Raising the Dead: reflecting on Native Title process. In Crossing Boundaries: cultural, legal, historical and practice issues in Native Title. Toussaint, S. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 9-23.
• Strang, V. (2003). An Appropriate Question? The Propriety of Anthropological Analysis in the Australian Political Arena. In The Ethics of Anthropology: debates and dilemmas. Caplan, P. New York: Routledge. 172-194.
• Strang, V. (2003). Moon Shadows: Aboriginal and European heroes in an Australian landscape. In Landscape, Memory and History. Stewart, P. & Strathern, A. London: Pluto Press. 108-135.
• Strang, V. (2001). Aboriginal Women and Sacred Landscapes in Northern Australia. In Women as "Sacred Custodians" of the Earth. Low, E. & Tremayne, S. Oxford New York: Berghahn. 63-80.
• Strang, V. (2001). Negotiating the River: cultural tributaries in Far North Queensland. In Contested Landscapes: movement, exile and place. Bender, B. & Winer, M. Oxford, New York: Berg. 69-86.
• Strang, V. (2001). Oceania. In Mythologies of the World. McKenzie, M., Prime, R., George, L. & Dunning, R. London: Hodder. 140-151.
• Strang, V. (2001). Showing and Telling: Australian land rights and material moralities’. In Ethnoarchaeology and Hunter-gatherers: pictures at an exhibition. Fewster, J. & Zvelebil, M. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd. 101-112.
• Strang, V. (2000). Not So Black and White: the effects of Aboriginal Law on Australian legislation. In Land, Law and Environment: Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries. Abramson, A. & Theodossopoulos, D. London: Pluto Press. 93-115.
• Strang, V. (1998). Competing Perceptions of Landscape in Kowanyama, North Queensland'. In The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: shaping your landscape. Ucko, P. & Layton, R. London: Routledge. 206-218.
• Strang, V. (1997). Cultural Theory and Modelling Practice. In Energy Modelling Beyond Economics and Technology. Giovannini, B. & Baranzini, A. Geneva: Centre Universitaire D’Etude des Problemes de L’Energie.
• Strang, V. (1996). Sustaining Tourism in Far North Queensland. In People and Tourism in Fragile Environments. Price, M. London: John Wiley. 51-67.
• Strang, V. (1987). Common Shares in the Environment: Submission of the Ontario Government to the World Commission on Environment and Development. In Our Common Future, The World Commission on Environment and Development [The Brundtland Report]. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

Edited book

• Strang, V., Edensor, T. & Puckering, J. (2018). From the Lighthouse: interdisciplinary reflections on light. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
• Strang, V. (2016). Transforming the Way We Think. Durham: Durham University: Institute of Advanced Study.
• Fardon, R., Harris, O., Marchand, T., Nuttall, M., Shore, C., Strang, V. & Wilson, R. (2012). Handbook of Social Anthropology. SAGE Publications/Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, London: Sage.
• Johnston, B., Hiwasaki, L., Klaver, I., Ramos-Castillo, A. & Strang, V. (2012). Water, Cultural Diversity & Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?. Paris, Dordrecht, New York: Springer and UNESCO.
• Strang, V. & Busse, M. (2011). Ownership and Appropriation. ASA Monographs (Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs ). Oxford & New York: Berg Publishers.

Edited Journal

• Krause, F. & Strang, V. (2016). Thinking Relationships Through Water. Society & Natural Resources, 29 (6): Routledge.
• Krause, F. & Strang, V. (2015). Water and Relationality. Journal of Society and Natural Resources, Taylor & Francis.
• Krause, F. & Strang, V. (2013). Living Water: the powers and politics of a vital substance. Special Issue Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, 17 (2).
• Strang, V. & Toussaint, S. (2008). Water Ways: competition and communality in the use and management of water. 78 (1): Special Issue, Oceania.
• Strang, V. & Garner, A. (2006). Fluidscapes: Water, Identity and The Senses. 10 (2): Brill.

Journal Article

• Rival, L. (ed), Harvey, P., Lambert, H. & Strang, V. (Forthcoming). Ethnography, Anthropology and Interdiscipinarity. Social Analysis (Special Issue)
• Strang, V. (2019). Epilogue: Anthropological conversations with Karl Wittfogel’s ghost. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 37(2): 1252-1257.
• Strang, V. (2019). Relaciones Infraestructurales: agua, poder político y el surgimiento de un nuevo régimen despótico. Revistas De Institutio de Colombiana de Anthropología e Historia: Antropologías del agua 55(1): 167-212.
• Abram, S., Acciaioli, G., Baviskar, A., Kopnina, H., Nonini, D. & Strang, V. (2016). 'Dichotomies: Yes We Need Them, But Not as Much as We Think'. Anthropological Forum CANF 1246084.
• McLeish, T. & Strang, V. (2016). Evaluating Interdisciplinary Research; the Elephant in the Peer-Reviewers' Room. Palgrave Communications 2.
• Strang, V. (2016). Infrastructural Relations: water, political power and the rise of a new ‘despotic regime’. Water Alternatives, Special Issue 9(2): 292-318.
• Strang, V. (2016). Justice for All: inconvenient truths and reconciliation in human-non-human relations. Major Works in Anthropology: Environmental Anthropology
• Strang, V. (2015). On the Matter of Time. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 40(2): 101-123.
• McLeish, T. & Strang, V. (2015). Recognising the Value of Interdisciplinary Research. Research Fortnight
• Strang, V. (2014). Fluid consistencies. Material relationality in human engagements with water. Archaeological Dialogues 21(02): 133-150.
• Strang, V. (2014). Lording it over the Goddess: water, gender and human-environmental relations. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 30(1): 83-107.
• Strang, V. (2014). Relative Materialities: bringing the concept of flow down to earth. Commentary on F. Krause 'Reclaiming Flow for a Lively Anthropology'. Suomen Anthropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 39(2): 92-96.
• Strang, V. (2014). The Taniwha and the Crown: defending water rights in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - WIREs: Water 1(1): 121-131.
• Strang, V. (2013). Going Against the Flow: the biopolitics of dams and diversions. Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture and Ecology Special Issue 17(2): 161-173.
• Strang, V. (2011). Representing Water: visual anthropology and divergent trajectories in human environmental relations. Anuário Antropológico 2: 213-242.
• Strang, V. (2010). The Summoning of Dragons: ancestral serpents and indigenous water rights in Australia and New Zealand. Anthropology News 51(2): 5-7.
• Strang, V. (2010). Water, Culture and Power: anthropological perspectives from ‘down under’. Insights, Journal of the Institute of Advanced Study 3(14): 2-26.
• Strang, V. (2009). Integrating the Social and Natural Sciences in Environmental Research: a discussion paper. Journal of Environment, Development and Sustainability 11(1): 1-18.
• Strang, V. (2008). Cosmopolitan Natures: Paradigms and Politics in Australian Environmental Management. Nature and Culture 3(1): 41-62.
• Strang, V. (2006). A Happy Coincidence? Symbiosis and Synthesis in Anthropological and Indigenous Knowledges. Current Anthropology 47(6): 981-1008.
• Strang, V. (2006). Integrating the Social and Natural Sciences in Environmental Research: a discussion paper. Water 33(8): 6.
• Strang, V. (2006). Turning Water Into Wine, Beef and Vegetables: material transformations along the Brisbane River. Transforming Cultures 1(2): 9-19.
• Strang, V. (2006). Water Recycling: an issue of substance. Water 33(8): 6.
• Strang, V. (2005). Common Senses Water, Sensory Experience and the Generation of Meaning. Journal of Material Culture 10(1): 92-120.
• Strang, V. (2005). Knowing Me, Knowing You: Aboriginal and Euro-Australian concepts of nature as self and other. Worldviews 9(1): 25-56.
• Strang, V. (2005). Water Works: agency and creativity in the Mitchell River Catchment. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 16(3): 366-381.
• Strang, V. (2002). Life Down Under: water and identity in an Aboriginal cultural landscape’. Goldsmiths College Anthropology Research Papers 7.
• Strang, V. (2001). Of Human Bondage: the breaking in of stockmen in Northern Australia. Oceania 72(1): 53-78.
• Strang, V. (2000). Showing and Telling: Australian land rights and material moralities. Journal of Material Culture 5(3): 275-299.
• Strang, V. (1999). Familiar Forms: homologues, culture and gender in Northern Australia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5(1): 75-95.
• Strang, V. (1998). The Strong Arm of the Law: Aboriginal Rangers and Anthropology. Australian Archaeology 47: 20-29.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• Strang, V. (2008). Owning Water. The University of Auckland News 5.
• Strang, V. (2008). Privatisation of Assets Never Cut and Dry. New Zealand Herald 13.
• Strang, V. (2002). Water - the Concept. Water Magazine (No. 139/140).

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Strang, V. (2017). A Winding Trail: following serpents, dragons and other water beings around the world.
• Strang, V. & McLeish, T. (2015). How to value research that crosses more than one discipline. The Conversation
• McLeish, T. & Strang, V. (2014). Interdisciplinary research must sit at the heart of universities. The Conversation

Other (Print)

• Strang, V. & McLeish, T. (2015). Evaluating Interdisciplinary Research: a practical guide.
• McLeish, T. & Strang, V. (2014). Leading Interdisciplinary Research: transforming the academic landscape. Stimulus Paper. Leadership Foundation.
• Strang, V. & Bell, S. (2013). Navigating Interdisciplinarity.

Report

• Strang, V. (2017). Contribution to Draft UN Preamble and Principles for Water. The Hague: United Nations High Level Panel on Water.
• Strang, V. (2017). Valuing the Cultural and Spiritual Dimensions of Water. Report to the United Nations High-Level Panel on Water.
• Strang, V. (2012). Comparative International Claims to Water and Water Management by Indigenous Peoples. Advisory report for Waitangi Tribunal on behalf of New Zealand Maori Council and other claimants, WAI 2357, WAI 2358, New Zealand.
• Strang, V (2012). Expert advice to Waitangi Tribunal, New Zealand, Maori Water Claim WAI 2537.
• Strang, V (2012). Responses to Crown Counsel Cross-examination, Waitangi Tribunal, Maori Water Claim WAI 2358.
• Busse, M. & Strang, V. (2009). Taniwha Springs - Indigenous Rights and Interests in Water: comparative and international perspectives. advisory report for Ngā Puna Wai o Te Tokotoru, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Strang, V. (2007). A Conceptual Framework for UNESCO’s Ecohydrology Programme: Paper prepared for Scientific Advisory Committee, UNESCO International Ecohydrology Programme.
• Strang, V. (2006). Social Ecohydrology: integrating the social and natural sciences, Research Paper prepared for Scientific Advisory Committee, UNESCO International Ecohydrology Programme.
• Strang, V. (2001). Country Bla We: Kunjen Country on the Cape York Peninsula. North Queensland: Kowanyama Community Council.
• Strang, V. (2001). Evaluating Water: cultural beliefs and values about water quality, use and conservation. London: Water UK.
• Strang, V. (1996). Environmental Values and the EU Energy Label: a qualitative and quantitative analysis. Report to the Department of the Environment. Oxford: Energy and Environment Programme, Environmental Change Unit, Oxford University.
• Strang, V. (1995). 'The Adoption and Implementation of an Environmental Policy at Oxford University. Advisory paper to Oxford University Hebdomadal Council.
• Strang, V. (1995). Cultural and Behavioural Issues in Domestic Energy Use. In Domestic Equipment and Carbon Dioxide Emissions (DECADE) Second Year Report, 1995. Oxford: Energy and Environment Programme, Environmental Change Unit, Oxford University.
• Strang, V. (1994). Behavioural Issues in Domestic Energy Use. In Domestic Equipment and Carbon Dioxide Emissions (DECADE) First Year Report, 1994. Oxford: Energy and Environment Programme, Environmental Change Unit, Oxford University.
• Strang, V. (1994). Kunjen Country: Aboriginal landscape in the Alice-Mitchell Rivers National Park Area. North Queensland: Kowanyama Community Council.
• Strang, V. (1993). Preliminary Report on the Cultural Mapping of the Alice-Mitchell Rivers National Park. North Queensland: Kowanyama Community Council.
• Strang, V. (1988). Annual Report of the Environmental Assessment Board. Toronto: Government of Ontario Press.
• Strang, V. (1985). Support Your Lake. Toronto: Government of Ontario Press.