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Climate and culture in Australia and New Zealand
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Cranston, CA and Dawson, C, Climate and culture in Australia and New Zealand, A Global History of Literature and the Environment, Cambridge University Press, J Parham and L Westling, (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 235-236. ISBN 9781316212578 (2017) [Research Book Chapter]
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DOI: doi:10.1017/CBO9781316212578.017
Abstract
Like a template for a climate-changing world, Australia - the driest inhabited continent on Earth - exists in an imaginative and emotional landscape shaped from extremities. Situated within the geopolitical region of Australasia/Oceania, Australia's trans-Tasman relations with earthquake-prone Aotearoa (''land of the long white cloud'') began in 1788 when New Zealand was included within the British colony of New South Wales. New Zealand, however, was never a penal colony and separation from its rough cousin came after Maori (consolidated under a single language) signed the Treaty of Waitangi with the British Crown in 1840 - itself a marker of difference between the First Nations of both countries. Australian Aborigines, scattered across the continent, each nation speaking its own language - saw land rights withheld under the illegal fiction of terra nullius, ''nobody's land."
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | Australia, New Zealand, climate change, colonial, postcolonial, literature |
Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
Research Group: | Literary studies |
Research Field: | Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature) |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
UTAS Author: | Cranston, CA (Dr CA Cranston) |
ID Code: | 112914 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2016-12-04 |
Last Modified: | 2018-09-19 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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