Contents

BEATE NEUMEIER, BORIS BRAUN, AND VICTORIA HERCHE Nature and Environment in Australia: An Introduction ........................................... 1

I. Historical, Geographical and Ethical Perspectives

NORBERT FINZSCH Settler Imperialism, Ecocide and Social Ecological Systems .................................. 9

BILL PRITCHARD The Tyranny of History? Australian Agriculture, Environment and Nature from the 19th to the 21st Centuries ....................................................... 23

DON GARDEN Colonial History, Economy and Culture: The Influence of South-Eastern Australian Weather and Climate ........................... 33

ROBERT FREESTONE Establishing an Environmental Agenda for City Planning: An Australian Retrospective .................................................................................... 49

HELEN TIFFIN Conservation Conundrums: Bats and Rats .............................................................. 71

II. Legal, Anthropological and Linguistic Perspectives

BRONWYN LAY Material Violence as the Foundation of Law: Settler Contract and Aboriginal Jurisprudence ........................................................ 87

CARSTEN WERGIN Tourism Meets Environmental Activism: Ecologies of Protest at Manari Road, Western Australia (August 2012) ................. 103

CHRISTINA RINGEL AND DAVID NEWRY The Miriwoong Perspective on Land Rights ........................................................... 119

MARIE CARLA D. ADONE, ELAINE L. MAYPILAMA, AND MELANIE A. BRÜCK A Signed Lingua Franca in Arnhem Land ............................................................... 139

III. Cultural Perspectives across Different Media

GEOFF RODOREDA Walking the Land: Assertions of Sovereignty in Indigenous Narratives ................. 163

DAVID KERN Nature as a Living Agent: Reading Nature and Environment in Mudrooroo's Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World .......................................................................................... 177

HEINZ ANTOR Trauma, Environment and the Re-Construction of Female Immigrant Identity in Eva Sallis's Hiam ................................................................................................ 189

KATRIN ALTHANS Singing Brisbane into Being: A Geocritical Approach to Samuel Wagan Watson's smoke encrypted whispers .......................................... 209

BEATE NEUMEIER Nature and Environment in Performance: Trees, Storms, and Devils ..................... 221

The Contributors ...................................................................................................... 239