Nature and Environment in Australia

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-3-86821-774-2
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Konzepte, Orientierungen, Abhandlungen, Lektüren, Australien-Studien (KOALAS)

This volume presents inter- and transdisciplinary reflections on nature and environment in Australia in different but interrelated contexts at the intersection of the humanities and the social sciences. The wide scope of the volume includes contributions from anthropological (and ethnographic), historical, geographical (and urbanistic), as well as legal, linguistic, literary and media perspectives, highlighting the productive intersections between these different approaches. The overall goal is to show their inseparability in the concerted efforts to meet the environmental challenges of our time. The specific situation of Australia in the context of the current global environmental crisis is connected to the effects of climate change in relation to the post/colonial destruction of the ecological balance through interventions in fauna and flora and the exploitation of natural resources. The nexus between ecocide and genocide is thus at the core of Australian postcolonial ecocriticism, laying bare the links between and persistence of the ongoing histories of colonization, globalization and environmental destruction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neumeier, Beate

Braun, Boris

Herche, Victoria

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents BEATE NEUMEIER, BORIS BRAUN, AND VICTORIA HERCHE Nature and Environment in Australia: An Introduction ........................................... 1 I. Historical, Geographical and Ethical Perspectives NORBERT FINZSCH Settler Imperialism, Ecocide and Social Ecological Systems .................................. 9 BILL PRITCHARD The Tyranny of History? Australian Agriculture, Environment and Nature from the 19th to the 21st Centuries ....................................................... 23 DON GARDEN Colonial History, Economy and Culture: The Influence of South-Eastern Australian Weather and Climate ........................... 33 ROBERT FREESTONE Establishing an Environmental Agenda for City Planning: An Australian Retrospective .................................................................................... 49 HELEN TIFFIN Conservation Conundrums: Bats and Rats .............................................................. 71 II. Legal, Anthropological and Linguistic Perspectives BRONWYN LAY Material Violence as the Foundation of Law: Settler Contract and Aboriginal Jurisprudence ........................................................ 87 CARSTEN WERGIN Tourism Meets Environmental Activism: Ecologies of Protest at Manari Road, Western Australia (August 2012) ................. 103 CHRISTINA RINGEL AND DAVID NEWRY The Miriwoong Perspective on Land Rights ........................................................... 119 MARIE CARLA D. ADONE, ELAINE L. MAYPILAMA, AND MELANIE A. BRÜCK A Signed Lingua Franca in Arnhem Land ............................................................... 139 III. Cultural Perspectives across Different Media GEOFF RODOREDA Walking the Land: Assertions of Sovereignty in Indigenous Narratives ................. 163 DAVID KERN Nature as a Living Agent: Reading Nature and Environment in Mudrooroo’s Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World .......................................................................................... 177 HEINZ ANTOR Trauma, Environment and the Re-Construction of Female Immigrant Identity in Eva Sallis’s Hiam ................................................................................................ 189 KATRIN ALTHANS Singing Brisbane into Being: A Geocritical Approach to Samuel Wagan Watson’s smoke encrypted whispers .......................................... 209 BEATE NEUMEIER Nature and Environment in Performance: Trees, Storms, and Devils ..................... 221 The Contributors ...................................................................................................... 239