Bibliograph

Writing belonging at the millennium, notes from the field on settler-colonial place, Emily Potter

Type

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Writing belonging at the millennium, notes from the field on settler-colonial place, Emily Potter

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Writing belonging at the millennium

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Emily Potter

Series statement

Cultural studies of natures, landscapes and environments series,, 2043-7757

Sub title

notes from the field on settler-colonial place

Summary

In Writing Belonging at the Millennium, Emily Potter critically considers the long-standing settler-colonial pursuit of belonging manifested through an obsession with firm and stable ground. This pursuit continues across the field of the postcolonial nation today; the recognition of colonization's destructive impacts on humans and environments troublingly generates a renewed desire to secure non-indigenous belonging. Focusing on the crucial role that Australia's contemporary literature plays in shaping ideas of place and its inhabitation, Potter tracks non-indigenous belonging claims through a range of fiction and non-fiction texts to examine how settler-colonial anxieties about belonging intersect with intensifying environmental challenges. Significantly, she proposes that new understandings of unsettled and uncertain non-indigenous belonging may actually be fruitful context for decolonizing relations with place - something that is imperative in a time of heightened global environmental crisis

Target audience

adult

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