Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities (Paperback, 1)

Foreword (TBC) Introduction ? Maxine Newlands (James Cook University), Claire Hansen (The Australian National University) Part 1: Placing Australian identities through the blue 1. Ecopolitics and ecocriticism: Activists, artisans and the Save the Reef campaign ? Maxine Newlands (James Cook University) 2. Bad water: Shakespeare and Australia’s inland blue ? Claire Hansen (The Australian National University) 3. Homesick blues: blue borderlines between personal history and brackish water ? Mia McAuslan (James Cook University) Part 2: Blue humanities beyond colonialism 4. A thinking, feeling, Blue Country: Healing with resistance and care ? Vincent Backhaus (The Cairns Institute) 5. Colourblindness in/of place: Memory, colonial place and education’s ignorance of the blue ? Bryan Smith (James Cook University) 6. ‘A Fellow-Denizen of the Deep’: Diving in the colonial undersea ? Killian Quigley (The Australian Catholic University; Sydney Environment Institute) Part 3: Hushed waters: the absence of the blue 7. Casting Pearls: Oceanic perspectives and critical regionalism in national literature ? Victoria Kuttainen (James Cook University) 8. The watery history of Australia: How can the blue humanities inform the environmental histories of northern Australia? ? Claire Brennan (James Cook University) 9. Australia’s ghost ports ? Koen Stapelbroek (James Cook University) Part 4: Beyond the anthropocentric blue: posthumanism and the more-than-human blue 10. Moving waters, muddy edges: Ibis in Brisbane ? Gillian Paxton (The Cairns Institute) 11. Digital blues: Digital solastalgia and the human-nature connection in the context of Australian aquatic environments ? Melusine Martin (Sorbonne University, Paris) 12. Old artefacts and the sea ? Jasmin Guenther (Independent scholar) Part 5: Imagining blue futures 13. Blue schools’ ethical imperatives ? Helen Boon (James Cook University) 14. Reeling in disaster: Eco-art, science and a symbiotic method ? Robyn Glade-Wright (James Cook University) 15. The ‘blue turn’ in contemporary art: Assembling blue methods of research ? Peta Rake (University of Queensland Art Museum), Jacquie Chlanda (University of Queensland Art Museum), Leuli Eshraghi (University of Queensland Art Museum) Conclusion (Maxine Newlands; Claire Hansen) Afterword (TBC) References