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Anna Haebich,James Bentley,Helen Gilbert,Philip Mead,Sa,Anke Tonnaer,C.A. Cranston,Carsten Wergin,Catherine Laudine,Dany Adone,David Kern,Eva Bischoff,Katrin Althans,Ken Gelder,Melanie Brück,Norbert Finzsch,Rachael Weaver,Victoria Herche

Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent

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Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the devastating effects of the mining industries, to present concerns and futuristic visions of the effects of climate change. Of central concern in all of these contexts is the impact of settler colonialism and an increasing turn to indigenous knowledge systems. A number of chapters engage with questions of ecological imperialism in relation to specific sociohistorical moments and effects, probing early colonial encounters between settlers and indigenous people, or rereading specific forms of colonial literature. Other essays take issue with past and present constructions of indigeneity in different contexts, as well as with indigenous resistance against such ascriptions, while the importance of an understanding of indigenous notions of “care for country” is taken up from a variety of different disciplinary angles in terms of interconnectedness, anchoredness, living country, and living heritage.
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