Environmental conservation
Articles
- The Eco-Humanities as Literature: A New Genre?
The rise of new ecological and environmental concerns demands a holistic engagement with knowledge, simultaneous understanding of science and politics and perhaps, above all, a…
1 October 2008 - Minding Elephants and the Rhetorics of Destruction
This article focuses on the debate about the culling of elephants in South Africa and includes, as a literary example, the discussion of Mateer’s poem.
1 June 2010 - Romanticism and Environmentalism: The Tasmanian Novels of Marie Bjelke-Petersen
Examines romanticism and early environmentalism in Bjelke-Petersen’s almost forgotten novels about the Tasmanian landscape. Haynes argues that although in one sense Bjelke-Petersen’s “Romantic emphasis on…
1 May 2001 - ‘Listen to the People Who Know’: Nuclear Colonial Memory in the Work of Natalie Harkin and Yhonnie Scarce
In this article, I ask how the British nuclear humanities, and in particular literary studies, might turn towards Indigenous Australian artistic, literary and critical work…
2 May 2023 - Resisting Productionist Timescapes by Making Better Futures in the Present: Care for Country in Western Sydney Literatures
Greater Western Sydney is unceded Aboriginal land, Country reciprocally caring and cared for by Darug, Dharawal and Gundungurra Peoples over tens of thousands of years…
25 May 2024