Writing Belonging at the Millennium: Notes from the Field on Settler-Colonial Place Contributor(s): Potter, Emily (Author) |
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ISBN: 1841505137 ISBN-13: 9781841505138 Publisher: Intellect (UK) OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Environmental Economics - Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.6" W x 9.5" (0.75 lbs) 190 pages |
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Publisher Description: Writing Belonging at the Millennium brings together two pressing and interrelated matters: the global environmental impacts of post-industrial economies and the politics of place in settler-colonial societies. It focuses on Australia at the millennium, when the legacies of colonization intersected with intensifying environmental challenges in a climate of anxiety surrounding settler-colonial belonging. The question of what "belonging" means is central to the discussion of the unfolding politics of place in Australia and beyond. In this book, Emily Potter negotiates the meaning of belonging in a settler-colonial field and considers the role of literary texts in feeding and contesting these legacies and anxieties. Its intention is to interrogate the assumption that non-indigenous Australians' increasingly unsustainable environmental practices represent a failure on their part to adequately belong in the country. Writing Belonging at the Millennium explores the idea of unsettled non-indigenous belonging as context for the emergence of potentially decolonized relations with place in a time of heightened global environmental concern. |
Contributor Bio(s): Potter, Emily: - Emily Potter is a senior lecturer at the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University in Australia. |