Gay Hawkins Libri

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.

How and why branded bottles of water have insinuated themselves into our daily lives, and what the implications are for safe urban water supplies.

The book delves into the ethical implications of waste in daily life, examining how societal attitudes toward garbage and environmentalism shape our understanding of personal and public responsibility. It questions the morality of reusing items like plastic bags and explores how collective consciousness influences policy decisions. By situating these discussions within historical, social, and cultural contexts, the author aims to propose alternatives for addressing ecological harm without resorting to guilt or despair.

In this book, historian Emily West offers the first comprehensive overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by placing their stories within the broader context of slavery in this country from the colonial era through to the end of the Civil War.