Australian waterscapes were fashioned to meet human needs during the ancient Aboriginal past through the construction of weirs, fish traps and small dams and accompanying socio-cultural practices and institutions. Exemplary amongst Australian water cultures was that of the Gunditjmara of western Victoria, who for thousands of years practiced a sophisticated form of swamp engineering and eel farming in the volcanic landscapes of Budj Bim. Within 150 years of European colonisation, frontier violence, dispossession and hydrological alteration had put an end to the most extensive and oldest aquaculture system in the world. Recent land and water restitution measures enacted in collaborative partnerships with the wider watershed community have enabled the Gunditjmara to restore the Budj Bim wetlands and rebuild their nation. This process entails re-storying engineering and eeling: cultural practices and connections are being retold to gain recognition for the capacity to negotiate change and adapt to geological, climatological and imperial forces. Critical theory and concepts relating to waterscapes, hydro-social relations and the Anthropocene assist in interpreting the resilient efforts of a rural community to retrieve its history and find new ways to care for the past as well as the future.

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关注人类世的水景：澳大利亚维多利亚州 Budj Bim 的遗产制作

澳大利亚的水景是通过建造堰、鱼塘和小水坝以及伴随的社会文化习俗和制度来满足古代土著过去的人类需求的。澳大利亚水文化的典范是维多利亚西部的 Gunditjmara，数千年来，他们在 Budj Bim 的火山景观中实践了一种复杂的沼泽工程和鳗鱼养殖方式。在欧洲殖民统治的 150 年内，边境暴力、剥夺和水文改造结束了世界上最广泛和最古老的水产养殖系统。最近与更广泛的流域社区合作制定的土地和水资源归还措施使 Gunditjmara 能够恢复 Budj Bim 湿地并重建他们的国家。这个过程需要重新讲述工程和鳗鱼：正在重新讲述文化实践和联系，以获得对谈判变化和适应地质、气候和帝国力量的能力的认可。与水景、水文社会关系和人类世有关的批判性理论和概念有助于解释农村社区为恢复其历史和寻找照顾过去和未来的新方法而做出的弹性努力。