Environmental conservation
Articles
- The Eco-Humanities as Literature: A New Genre?
The rise of new ecological and environmental concerns demands a holistic engagement with knowledge, simultaneous understanding of science and politics and perhaps, above all, a…
1 October 2008 - Minding Elephants and the Rhetorics of Destruction
This article focuses on the debate about the culling of elephants in South Africa and includes, as a literary example, the discussion of Mateer’s poem.
1 June 2010 - Romanticism and Environmentalism: The Tasmanian Novels of Marie Bjelke-Petersen
Examines romanticism and early environmentalism in Bjelke-Petersen’s almost forgotten novels about the Tasmanian landscape. Haynes argues that although in one sense Bjelke-Petersen’s “Romantic emphasis on…
1 May 2001 - ‘Listen to the People Who Know’: Nuclear Colonial Memory in the Work of Natalie Harkin and Yhonnie Scarce
In this article, I ask how the British nuclear humanities, and in particular literary studies, might turn towards Indigenous Australian artistic, literary and critical work…
2 May 2023