Mardi Reardon-Smith

Mardi Reardon-Smith is an environmental anthropologist interested in human-environment relations, political ecology, intercultural relationships in settler-colonial contexts, and visual anthropology. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, working on a project about ADM, ecosystems and multispecies relationships. Her first book, Making Do: Conservation ethics and ecological care in Australia, will be published in late 2025 with Stanford University Press.

Articles by Mardi Reardon-Smith:

26 March 2025 · ecology

Putricia: digitally romancing a corpse flower

Mardi Reardon-Smith

I’ve never been in the presence of a blossoming corpse flower. I’ve never breathed in the scent. But through my computer screen I could experience Putricia’s soft velvety folds, her firm but wilting spike. I could feel close to her.