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.
Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities is an edited interdisciplinary collection that explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanitys relationship with water and manifestations of what is referred to as the blue reefs, oceans, rivers, creeks, basins, and inland bodies of water. Australias blue stretches from the worlds largest ecosystem, the Great Barrier Reef, to the urban landscapes of metropolitan Australia. In its scope, this collection emphasises both the importance of the local and the interconnectedness of Australia with global environmental concerns. It considers ways in which the blue manifests in Australian place and space and critiques 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 history, political science, English literature, creative arts, Indigenous knowledge, education and anthropology will 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 blue space and the blue humanities. The collection offers a pathway for those wishing to explore, critique and advance ideas around the blue humanities in both research and teaching.Directly addressing a growing interdisciplinary field, the critical essays will appeal to scholars, educators and students working across the humanities 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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'I am energized by the ways in which this collection contributes to emerging conversations specifically in the Blue Humanities and also in the Environmental Humanities more generally. The multi-disciplinary approach taken by this collection opens the Blue Humanities to more dynamic approaches, which is a necessary task as the field continues to expand in scope. This book works to bring diverse methodological and disciplinary thinking to bear on how we understand the role of blue within an Australian context, but its insights extend globally and across all Blue Humanities.'
Sid Dobrin, Professor and Chair in the Department of English, University of Florida, USA
'From the cold Southern Ocean to tropical reefs, precarious inland waterways and the blue within art, education, and digital spaces, this book dives deep into the cultural analysis of Australian waters with impressive literary elegance and analytic scope, finding the blue woven through the most pressing concerns of our times.'
Kate Judith, Senior Lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia
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 Australias 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 humannaturetechnology 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 educations
ignorance of the blue 15 Eco-art and reeling in anthropogenic adversity 16
Waves of cognition: Towards an Australian blue Shakespeare ecosystem Index
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. Maxines 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).
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