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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, Blue Ridge Summit
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...
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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. Cover -- Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent -- Series Page -- Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Local and Global Concerns -- InterSections -- 1 Politics of the Land and Indigenous Knowledge -- 2 Colonial Legacies and Current Environmental Concerns -- 3 Ecocriticism and Fieldwork -- 4 Ecocritical Approaches to Colonial Art -- 5 Ecocritical Concerns Across Contemporary Arts: Indigenous Voices in Fiction, Poetry and Performance Arts -- 6 Coda: Crossing Boundaries -- Works Cited -- Part I: Politics of the Land and Indigenous Knowledge -- Chapter 1 -- The Museumesque in Pristine Wilderness -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 -- The Smooth Space of the Nomads -- Nomadology à la Française -- Australian Nomads in Travel Accounts -- Australian Nomads in Research -- The Complexity of Aboriginal Space -- Note -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 -- From Reverence to Rampage -- Nature and Environment before European Arrival -- Cultural Underpinnings of Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge -- Brief Notes on European Land Use in Australia -- Cultural Underpinnings of New Ways -- New Frontier: Rampage by Government and Extractive Industries -- Addressing the Distress of the Land and the Culture of Greed -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II: Colonial Legacies and Current Environmental Concerns -- Chapter 4 -- Australian Conservation Policies and the Owls of Lord Howe Island -- Categorization and the Owl Anomaly -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 -- Biological Colonization in the Land of Flowers -- Framing the Past, Present, and Future -- Nyungar Caring for Country -- "A Small Story Raises Larger Questions" -- After the Corroboree -- The Passion for Botany -- Reflections -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6.
