Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Newlands, Maxine; Hansen, Claire

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. It will appeal to scholars, educators, and students with an interest in the environmental humanities, ecopolitics, ecocriticism, the blue humanities, cultural geography, environmental history, and the role of place.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040095744
• Artikelnr.: 72282242

Autorenporträt

Maxine Newlands, (PhD), is Director of the Blue Humanities Lab in Australia, and holds two adjunct research fellowships with the University of Queensland and the Cairns Institute at James Cook University. Maxine's research specialises in the advancement of novel science, in politics, policy, and marine governance. Claire Hansen is a senior lecturer in English at the Australian National University (ANU). She is co-chair of the Blue Humanities Lab, the Heart of the Matter project, and the ANU Health Humanities Network. She is an award-winning educator, a researcher on the Shakespeare Reloaded project, co-editor of Reimagining Shakespeare Education (2023), and author of Shakespeare and Place-Based Learning (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Steve Mentz Introduction: Approaching the Australian blue
humanities - from entanglements to Sea Country Part 1: Australian
identities through the blue 1 Blue Country: Nurturing meaningful
relationships in discontinuous environments 2 Possessing and protecting the
Southern Ocean: Connection and mediation in the Antarctic work of Douglas
Mawson and Alan Villiers 3 Writing the more-than-human history of northern
Australia's many waters: Environmental history, the blue humanities, and
the challenge of entanglement 4 The colour of water Part 2: Sea Country,
Blue Country: From the postcolonial blue to the great ocean 5 Sanitary
citizenship in the settler colonial city: Race, health, and hygiene in
interwar urban Australia 6 'From the viewpoint of their native element':
Diving in the colonial undersea 7 The 'blue turn' in contemporary art:
Assembling blue methods of research-creation Part 3: Mediating the blue 8
Ecopolitics and ecological imperialism: Activists, artisans, and the Save
the Reef campaign 9 Digital blues: Sense of self and the
human-nature-technology connection in Australian aquatic environments 10 'A
dancing creature of crimson and yellow': Writing the Great Barrier Reef
Part 4: Beyond the anthropocentric blue 11 Moving waters, muddy edges: Ibis
in Brisbane 12 A whale of a journey: On the connectivity between pygmy blue
whales in Indonesia, Australia, and beyond 13 HMS Pandora and the sea:
Tracing eighteenth-century Polynesian artefacts and their entanglement with
the Pacific Ocean Part 5: Imagining blue futures 14 Colourblindness in/of
place: Memory, colonial place, and education's ignorance of the blue 15
Eco-art and reeling in anthropogenic adversity 16 Waves of cognition:
Towards an Australian blue Shakespeare ecosystem Index