About this issue
The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent. It looks at some typical visions of Australia—the bush, the Great Barrier Reef —but also at mines, shorelines, sediments, and wheatfields, and beyond these to the historical networks of human and non-human actors that shaped these places and the ideas around them. It argues for an environmental history that is uniquely Australian, but which can enrich and expand the field of environmental history across the globe.
How to cite: Mauch, Christof, Morgan, Ruth, and O’Gorman, Emily (Eds). “Visions of Australia: Environments in History,” RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2017, no. 2. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7902.
Content
- Introduction
More-Than-Human Worlds
- Oyster Culture in the Estuary Worlds of Southern Queensland by Jodi Frawley
- Animal Mobilities and the Founding of New South Wales by Nancy Cushing
- An Unruly Neighbour: Wimmera Ryegrass by Karen Twigg
Identifying with Place
- Making Masculinity: Land, Body, Image in Australia’s Mallee Country by Katie Holmes
- Irrigation Nation or Pacific Partner? Visions for Postwar Australia by Jayne Regan
- Dragons Abroad: Chinese Migration and Environmental Change in Australasia by James Beattie
Valuing Natures
- Liquid Asset: Water in Victorian Gold Mining by Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies
- Entangled Nature: The Stirling Range National Park by Andrea Gaynor
- Through the Reef: Settler Politics, Science, and the Great Barrier Reef by Rohan Lloyd
Seeing Australia
