Writing Belonging at the Millennium: Notes from the Field on Settler-Colonial Place

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Emily Potter Rod Giblett

Writing Belonging at the Millennium

Notes from the Field on Settler-Colonial Place

Emily Potter, Rod Giblett, Warwick Mules , Emily Potter

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English

Intellect Books
15 December 2019

Literary studies: general; Literary companions; Politics & government; Political activism; Economics

Series: Cultural Studies of Natures, Landscapes and Environments

Writing Belonging at the Millennium brings together two pressing and interrelated matters: the global environmental impacts of post-industrial economies and the politics of place in settler-colonial societies. It focuses on Australia at the millennium, when the legacies of colonization intersected with intensifying environmental challenges in a climate of anxiety surrounding settler-colonial belonging. The question of what “belonging” means is central to the discussion of the unfolding politics of place in Australia and beyond.

In this book, Emily Potter negotiates the meaning of belonging in a settler-colonial field and considers the role of literary texts in feeding and contesting these legacies and anxieties. Its intention is to interrogate the assumption that non-indigenous Australians’ increasingly unsustainable environmental practices represent a failure on their part to adequately belong in the country. Writing Belonging at the Millennium explores the idea of unsettled non-indigenous belonging as context for the emergence of potentially decolonized relations with place in a time of heightened global environmental concern.

By: Emily Potter
Series edited by: Rod Giblett, Warwick Mules, Emily Potter
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781841505138
ISBN 10: 1841505137
Series: Cultural Studies of Natures, Landscapes and Environments
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 15 December 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emily Potter is an associate professor in writing and literature in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University.

Reviews for Writing Belonging at the Millennium: Notes from the Field on Settler-Colonial Place

'Emily Potter's brilliant readings of a range of Australian literary texts launch the concept of belonging in a quite new way. Belonging is offered here as a strong alternative to simply being Australian... [instead it] is about having valued attributes or attachments, ones that are hard to acquire and to let go. Through storytelling, she argues, white Australia is beginning to recompose its attachments, to understand Indigenous custodianship and to share its political responsibilities.' Stephen Muecke, professor and jury chair of English language and literature, University of Adelaide -- Stephen Muecke 'Writing Belonging at the Millennium continues Emily Potter's passionate quest to understand Australia in all its contentious and contested facets... Against divisive histories and loyalties, and the pressing realities of the Anthropocene that continue to inform what Australia is, Potter argues forcefully that we need stories that admit to a world in which our shadows are with us rather than erased. This is a deeply critical and hopeful book that is essential reading if we are to fully reckon with those shadows.' Elspeth Probyn, professor of gender and cultural studies, University of Sydney. Author of Eating the Ocean (Duke University Press, 2016) -- Elspeth Probyn