Writing Belonging at the Millennium: Notes from the Field on Settler-Colonial Place (Cultural Studies of Natures, Landscapes and Environments)

Emily Potter

ISBN 10: 1841505137 / ISBN 13: 9781841505138

Verlag: University of Chicago Press 2019-10-15, 2019

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6666-NBN-9781841505138

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Writing Belonging at the Millennium: Notes from the Field on Settler-Colonial Place (Cultural Studies of Natures, Landscapes and Environments)
• Verlag: University of Chicago Press 2019-10-15
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1841505137
• ISBN-13: 9781841505138
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

In Writing Belonging at the Millennium, Emily Potter critically considers the long-standing settler-colonial pursuit of belonging manifested through an obsession with firm and stable ground. This pursuit continues across the field of the postcolonial nation today; the recognition of colonization’s destructive impacts on humans and environments troublingly generates a renewed desire to secure non-indigenous belonging. Focusing on the crucial role that Australia’s contemporary literature plays in shaping ideas of place and its inhabitation, Potter tracks non-indigenous belonging claims through a range of fiction and non-fiction texts to examine how settler-colonial anxieties about belonging intersect with intensifying environmental challenges. Significantly, she proposes that new understandings of unsettled and uncertain non-indigenous belonging may actually be fruitful context for decolonizing relations with place – something that is imperative in a time of heightened global environmental crisis.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Emily Potter is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University in Australia.

Rod Giblett is honorary associate professor of environmental humanities in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University in Australia. He is the author of Black Swan Lake: Life of a Wetland and Cities and Wetlands: The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture.

Warwick Mules is an honourary research fellow in the scholl of English, Media Studies, and Art History at the University of Queensland.