Felicity Picken

Felicity Picken is a Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University. Her scholarship is concerned with the changing relations between humans and nature in the strange living out of the Anthropocene. She follows the emergence of the ‘blue planet’ as a significant social actor by exploring how relations with oceanic environments evolve through pleasurable encounters, including art, heritage, tourism, and leisure. Her recent work explores the terraqueous planet and the creative, cultural and social dimensions of seaweed. All her writing is seasoned with a spoonful of mischievous more-than-human agency.