Critical approaches to the Australian blue humanities /
edited by Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen.
- New York : Routledge, 2025.
- 1 online resource.
- Routledge environmental humanities .
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.
"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"--
Human ecology and the humanities--Australia. Bodies of water--Australia. Human beings--Effect of environment on--Australia. LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian NATURE / Ecology NATURE / Essays