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Critical approaches to the Australian blue humanities
Title
Critical approaches to the Australian blue humanities / edited by Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen.
ISBN
1003365507
1040095747
1040095771
9781003365501
9781040095744
9781040095775
9781032430454
9781032430492
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Copyright Notice Date
©2025
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxii, 223 pages) : illustrations, map.
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Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2024).
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Biographical / Historical Note
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).
Summary
"This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanity's relationship with water and manifestations of what is referred to as the 'blue' - reefs, oceans, rivers, creeks, basins, and inland bodies of water. In its scope, this collection emphasises both the importance of the local and the interconnectedness of Australia with global environmental concerns. It considers how we conceptualise watery spaces and shades of blue in a country where water is often marked by its absence, its ephemerality, its politicisation and its dangers. Contributors from environmental history, environmental social science, political science, literary studies, creative arts, Indigenous knowledge, education and anthropology tackle various entanglements between the human, the more-than-human and watery Australian spaces in modern culture. It is the first volume to offer a specific, dedicated focus on the intersections between Australian space and the blue humanities, and it offers a pathway for those wishing to explore, critique and advance ideas around the blue humanities in both research and teaching. Directly contributing to a growing interdisciplinary field, this is the first book to comprehensively examine the blue in Australia, appealing to scholars, educators and students working across the humanities and social sciences with an interest in the environmental humanities, ecopolitics, ecocriticism, the blue humanities, cultural geography, environmental history and the role of place"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Critical approaches to the Australian blue humanities New York : Routledge, 2025
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 27, 2024
Series
Routledge environmental humanities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part 1: Australian identities through the blue
Blue Country: Nurturing meaningful relationships in discontinuous environments / Vincent Backhaus, Nailsa Neuendorf, Lokes Brooksbank, and Tahnee Innes
Possessing and protecting the Southern Ocean: Connection and mediation in the Antarctic work of Douglas Mawson and Alan Villiers / Alessandro Antonello
Writing the more-than-human history of northern Australia's many waters: Environmental history, the blue humanities, and the challenge of entanglement / Claire Brennan
The color of water / Mia-Francesca Jones
Part 2: Sea Country, Blue Country: from the postcolonial blue to the Great Ocean
Sanitary citizenship in the settler colonial city: Race, health and hygiene in interwar urban Australia / Ruth Morgan
'From the viewpoint of their Native element': Diving in the colonial undersea / Killian Quigley
The 'blue turn' in contemporary art: Assembling blue methods of research-creation / Jacqueline Chlanda, Léuli Eshrāghi and Peta Rake
Part 3: Mediating the blue
Ecopolitics and ecocriticism: Activists, artisans and the Save the Reef campaign / Maxine Newlands
Digital blues: Sense of self and the human-nature-technology connection in Australian aquatic environments / Melusine Martin
'A dancing creature of crimson and yellow': Writing the Great Barrier Reef / Jessica White
Part 4: Beyond the anthropocentric blue moving waters, muddy edges: Ibis in Brisbane
Gillian Paxton
A whale of a journey: On the connectivity between pygmy blue whales in Indonesia, Australia and beyond / Putu Liza Kusuma Mustika
HMS Pandora and the sea: Tracing eighteenth-century Polynesian artefacts and their entanglement with the Pacific Ocean / Jasmin I. Günther
Part 5: Imagining blue futures
Colourblindness in/of place: Memory, colonial place and education's ignorance of the blue / Bryan Smith
Eco-art and reeling in anthropogenic adversity / Robyn Glade-Wright
Waves of cognition: Towards an Australian blue Shakespeare ecosystem / Alys Daroy, Joshua Zeunert, and Rahul K. Gairola.
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