Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Title

Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Birthplace

Wiradjuri Country

Primary Sources

Fletcher, M. S., Romano, A., Nichols, S., Henriquez Gonzalez, W., Mariani, M., Jaganjac, D., & Sculthorpe, A. (2024). Lifting the veil: pyrogeographic manipulation and the leveraging of environmental change by people across the Vale of Belvoir, Tasmania, Australia. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 3, 1386339. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-archaeology/articles/10.3389/fearc.2024.1386339/full

Fletcher, M.-S., Hamilton, R., Dressler, W., & Palmer, L. (2021). Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(40), 1–7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27075912

Fletcher, M.-S., Romano, A., Connor, S., Mariani, M., & Maezumi, S. Y. (2021). Catastrophic Bushfires, Indigenous Fire Knowledge and Reframing Science in Southeast Australia. Fire, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4030061

Fletcher, M.-S, Keenan, R., Cumpston, Z. et al (2020). Submission to the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements. Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements. National Report. Accessed December 10, 2023. https://indigenousknowledge.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/3385578/RC_FULL-VERSION.pdf

Fletcher, M.-S., & Thomas, I. (2010). The origin and temporal development of an ancient cultural landscape. Journal of Biogeography, 37(11), 2183–2196. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40929017

Secondary Sources

Beck, K. K., Fletcher, M.-S., Kattel, G., Barry, L. A., Gadd, P. S., Heijnis, H., Jacobsen, G. E., & Saunders, K. M. (2018). The indirect response of an aquatic ecosystem to long-term climate-driven terrestrial vegetation in a subalpine temperate lake. Journal of Biogeography, 45(3), 713–725. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26626983

Linley, G. D.Jolly C. J.Doherty T. S.Geary W. L.Armenteras D.Belcher C. M.Bliege Bird R.Duane A.Fletcher M.-S.Giorgis M. A.Haslem A.Jones G. M.Kelly L. T.Lee C. K. F.Nolan R. H.Parr C. L.Pausas J. G.Price J. N.Regos A., … Nimmo D. G. (2022). What do you mean, ‘megafire’? Global Ecology and Biogeography3119061922. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13499

Thomas, I., Cullen, P., & Fletcher, M.-S. (2010). Ecological drift or stable fire cycles in Tasmania: A resolution? In S. G. Haberle, J. Stevenson, & M. Prebble (Eds.), Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes (Vol. 32, pp. 341–352). ANU Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt24h8rj.20

Extra Resources

Clark, K., Judd, B., and Little, A. (2023). Indigenous advocates aim to ensure that Indigenous knowledge is fully recognised as part of the solution to climate change, Pursuit, University of Melbourne, 14 Dec., Accessed December 17, 2023.  
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/indigenous-knowledge-has-the-power-to-help-address-the-climate-crisis?in_c=articlelistingblock

Gardening Australia (August 18, 2023). My Garden Path | Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Television Series. Accessed December 10, 2023. https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/how-to/my-garden-path-professor-michael-shawn-fletcher/102738982

Ideology of Wilderness "Destroying this Continent" - Dr Michael-Shawn Fletcher for Ockham's Razor (July 4, 2022). The Royal Society of Victoria. YouTube. Accessed December 10, 2023. https://youtu.be/K3TMEN__jLE

The 2020 Narrm Oration with Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher (November 26, 2020). The University of Melbourne. YouTube. Accessed December 10, 2023. https://youtu.be/sK7gGVhss7w

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Citation

“Michael-Shawn Fletcher,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/733.

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