Shadow Country

Reimagining Place and Story in Settler Colonial Australia
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-41764-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

This book explores a series of Australian 'shadow places' that manifest complex stories of colonised Australia in the throes of environmental crisis. These are places—from nuclear testing grounds, to extractivist landscapes, to the frontiers of colonial violence—that bear the heaviest burdens of capitalist colonial culture, but are routinely considered out of sight and out of mind. Engaging with a range of shadow places across southern Australia via literary, cultural, and critical sources, Shadow Country argues that these places are with us all the time, threaded into the imaginative and material worlds that compose our homes. Through localised stories of environmental disaster, colonial violence and profound injustice, shadow places connect to the most pressing issues facing human society—environmental futures, social justice and the imperative of decolonisation.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars with an interest in the intersection of environmental crisis and colonial legacies, and the complexity of living in a time of reckoning with these.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Potter, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ozeanische & Austronesische Literatur
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Living with shadows 1. Uranium Legacies and Radioactive Histories 2. Slow Violence and True Crime Stories: Chloe Hooper’s The Arsonist and Tom Doig’s Hazelwood in Australia’s Latrobe Valley 3. Endings and Futures in the Western District: Hostile architecture and settler colonial place-making 4. Ecocide, Domicide, and the Limits of the White Family in Briohny Doyle’s Echolalia 5. Reimagining Home and Expanding Family in Lia Hills’ The Desert Knows Her Name 6. Plant Communities and Shadow Waters in Linda Tegg’s Living Installations 7. The Shadows of Home: Returning to Adelaide. Coda

Über Autor(innen)

Emily Potter is Professor of Writing, Literature and Culture in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. Her previous books include Writing Belonging at the Millennium: Notes from the Field on Settler Colonial Place.