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This book investigates an array of approaches to different scholarly discourses and accounts of activist engagements. Major concerns are biodiversity, preservation policies, mining industries, and climate change in relation to settler colonialism and indigenous knowledge systems in Australia.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Beate Neumeier
Section 1: Politics of the Land and Indigenous Knowledge
1 The Museumesque in Pristine Wilderness
Alexis Wright
2 The Smooth Space of the Nomads: Indigenous Outopia, Indigenous Heterotopia
and the Example of Australia
Norbert Finzsch
3 From Reverence to Rampage: Care for Country vs. Ruthless Exploitation
Catherine Laudine
Section 2: Colonial Legacies and Current Environmental Concerns
4 Australian Conservation Policies and the Owls of Lord Howe Island
Helen Tiffin
5 Biological Colonisation in the Land of Flowers
Anna Haebich
6 Moving Trees and Trading Melons: Reconstructing Local Knowledge and Settler Practices in 1840s South Australia
Eva Bischoff
Section 3: Ecocriticism and Fieldwork
7 Ecologies of the Otherwise: Glimpses of Australia after the Resources Boom
Carsten Wergin
8 On The Beaten Track: Ambiguous Wilderness in the Tourist Space of Indigenous Australia Anke Tonnaer
9 Yan-nhäu Language of the Crocodile Islands: Anchoredness, Kin, and Country
Dany Adone, Melanie Brück, Bentley James
Section 4: Ecocritical Approaches to Colonial Art
10 Reconstructing Representations: 'Australia' as Ecocritical Andragogy
CA Cranston
11 Killing and Sentiment in the Colonial Australian Kangaroo Hunt Narrative
Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
12 Marriage, Mining and Environmental Destruction in Nineteenth-Century Fiction about Australia
Philip Mead
Section 5: Ecocritical Concerns Across Contemporary Arts: Indigenous Voices in Fiction, Poetry and Performing Arts
13 Performing the Anthropocene: Marrugeku's Cut the Sky
Helen Gilbert
14 Corporate Interest and the Power of Mines in Indigenous Writing and Film:
Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006) and Ivan Sen's Goldstone (2016)
Victoria Herche and David Kern
15 Defying the 'Ecological Indian': The Urban Ecopoetry of Samuel Wagan Watson
Katrin Althans
Section 6: Coda - Crossing Boundaries
16 Australia's Great Barrier Reef: Two Personal Accounts
Helen Tiffin and Sandra Williams
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Beate Neumeier and Helen Tiffin - Contributions by Dany Adone; Katrin Althans; Eva Bischoff; C.A. Cranston; Melanie Brück; Norbert Finzsch; Ken Gelder; Helen Gilbert; Anna Haebich; Victoria Herche; Bentley James; David Kern; Catherine Laudine; P
Summary
This book investigates an array of approaches to different scholarly discourses and accounts of activist engagements. Major concerns are biodiversity, preservation policies, mining industries, and climate change in relation to settler colonialism and indigenous knowledge systems in Australia.
