Brennan, Claire (2024) Writing the More-Than-Human History of Northern Australia's Many Waters: Environmental history, the blue humanities, and the challenge of entanglement. In: Newlands, Maxine, and Hansen, Claire, (eds.) Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 46-57.

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Abstract

This chapter explores the ways in which Australian history is framed, and the place of inland and oceanic waters in the thinking of Australia’s historians. Where water features in Australian history, it tends to be inland rather than oceanic, and such waters and their unreliable presence have also informed Australian environmental historians in their writing of the Australian continent’s more-than-human history. However, Australia is surrounded by ocean, and the blue humanities offers Australian environmental historians an opportunity to reframe the history of the continent to include all its waters and the ways in which they mingle. This chapter argues that tropical North Queensland offers a useful region in which to explore the entanglements of continent and coast, of fresh and salt waters, and that environmental history can be enriched by such an approach.

Item ID:	83875
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
Keywords:	Australian environmental history; history of northern Australia; blue humanities; water history
Copyright Information:	© 2025 selection and editorial matter, Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen; individual chapters, the contributors.
Date Deposited:	28 Oct 2024 23:57
FoR Codes:	43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430307 Environmental history @ 100%
SEO Codes:	28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology @ 100%
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