Writing the More-Than-Human History of Northern Australia's Many Waters: Environmental history, the blue humanities, and the challenge of entanglement
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This chapter explores the ways in which Australian history is framed, and the place of inland and oceanic waters in the thinking of Australia’s historians. Where water features in Australian history, it tends to be inland rather than oceanic, and such waters and their unreliable presence have also informed Australian environmental historians in their writing of the Australian continent’s more-than-human history. However, Australia is surrounded by ocean, and the blue humanities offers Australian environmental historians an opportunity to reframe the history of the continent to include all its waters and the ways in which they mingle. This chapter argues that tropical North Queensland offers a useful region in which to explore the entanglements of continent and coast, of fresh and salt waters, and that environmental history can be enriched by such an approach.
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Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities
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