Acknowledgments

Introduction

Beate Neumeier



Section 1: Politics of the Land and Indigenous Knowledge



1 The Museumesque in Pristine Wilderness

Alexis Wright



2 The Smooth Spaceof theNomads: IndigenousOutopia, IndigenousHeterotopia

and the Exampleof Australia

Norbert Finzsch



3 From Reverence to Rampage: Care for Country vs. Ruthless Exploitation

Catherine Laudine



Section 2: Colonial Legacies and Current Environmental Concerns



4 Australian Conservation Policies and the Owls of Lord Howe Island

Helen Tiffin



5Biological Colonisation in the Land of Flowers

Anna Haebich



6 Moving Trees and Trading Melons: Reconstructing Local Knowledge and Settler Practices in 1840s South Australia

Eva Bischoff



Section 3: Ecocriticism and Fieldwork



7 Ecologies of the Otherwise: Glimpses of Australia after the Resources Boom

Carsten Wergin



8 On The Beaten Track: Ambiguous Wilderness in the Tourist Space of Indigenous Australia Anke Tonnaer



9 Yan-nha?u Language of the Crocodile Islands: Anchoredness, Kin, and Country

Dany Adone, Melanie Brück, Bentley James



Section 4: Ecocritical Approaches to Colonial Art



10 Reconstructing Representations: ‘Australia’ as Ecocritical Andragogy

CA Cranston



11 Killing and Sentiment in the Colonial Australian Kangaroo Hunt Narrative

Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver



12 Marriage, Mining and Environmental Destruction in Nineteenth-Century Fiction about Australia

Philip Mead



Section 5: Ecocritical Concerns Across Contemporary Arts: Indigenous Voices in Fiction, Poetry and Performing Arts



13 Performing the Anthropocene: Marrugeku’s Cut the Sky

Helen Gilbert



14 Corporate Interest and the Power of Mines in Indigenous Writing and Film:

Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria (2006) and Ivan Sen’s Goldstone (2016)

Victoria Herche and David Kern



15 Defying the ‘Ecological Indian’: The Urban Ecopoetry of Samuel Wagan Watson

Katrin Althans



Section 6: Coda – Crossing Boundaries



16 Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: Two Personal Accounts

Helen Tiffin and Sandra Williams



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