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 sakriti opis