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Zusatztext Storied places and companions infuse this deeply moving book of earthly encounters. This is not travel writing in any conventional sense! but home writing attuned to the bumptious motions of living and dying together of diverse human and nonhuman peoples. These are stories that can nurture response-abilities in our urgent times.Donna Haraway! University of California Santa Cruz! USAThis book is a major contribution to the emerging field of the Environmental Humanities. It is a field founded on the idea that knowledge is forged on troubling journeys! not just applied to problems by masterful humans in order to extract solutions. Wright has invented a kind of subjectivity! with both a?mode of knowledge composition! and a tone! that are crafted in interspecies relations. The Environmental Humanities are here relaunched on a new journey! generating hope through generous thought in a spirit of trust.Stephen Muecke! University of New South Wales! AustraliaWright's study is intimate and moving! a deeply personal account of her love for one particular place under the sun! even as she engages in a tough-minded! critical rethinking of her entanglement in a history?permeated with genocidal and ecocidal legacies. We need a lot more studies like this one.James Hatley! Salisbury University! Maryland! USAWright exemplifies the kind of imaginative intellectual thinking that we need right now to live in a world that depends upon relationality. Sure this book will make you think differently but it will also make you feel very! very connected!Katrina Schlunke! University of Sydney! Australia Informationen zum Autor Kate Wright is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at theUniversity of New England! Australia. She is currently immersed in an experimental! multispecies research project that involves developing and coordinating an Indigenous community garden in collaboration with Armidale's Aboriginal community. Zusammenfassung Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene offers a new perspective on international environmental scholarship, focusing on the emotional and affective connections between human and nonhuman lives to reveal fresh connections between global issues of climate change, species extinction and colonisation. Combining the rhythm of road travel, interviews with local Aboriginal Elders, and autobiographical storytelling, the book develops a new form of nature writing informed by concepts from posthumanism and the environmental humanities. It also highlights connections between the studied area and the global environment, drawing conceptual links between the auto-ethnographic accounts and international issues. This book will be of great interest to scholars and postgraduates in environmental philosophy, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, Australian studies, anthropology, literary and place studies, ecocriticism, history and animal studies. Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene may also be beneficial to studies in nature writing, ecocriticism, environmental literature, postcolonial studies and Australian studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part One. Stone County Chapter 1. Standing Stones and Stratigraphic Time in the Anthropocene Chapter 2. Encounters – A Road Trip through Stone Country Part Two. Trees Chapter 3. A Beloved Shadow Place Chapter 4 Autumnal Becomings Part Three. Animals Chapter 5. Lucy Chapter 6. Down the Rabbit Burrow Part Four. Water Chapter 7. Petrichor: Lessons from a Lost Gully Part Five. Sky Country Conclusion. Thinking Like a Storm ...
