Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Reading Ecological Decline in Nineteenth-Century Bushfire Serials and Reporting
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'In recent years, the scholarship of Bruce Pascoe (bolstered and supplemented by environmental historians such as Bill Gammage) has arguably shifted mainstream Australia's understanding of Indigenous culture from nomadic to agricultural, and the disaster of Black Summer has further moved settler Australia towards an appreciation of Indigenous cultural practices as an amelioration of ecological disaster and climate change (Pascoe 2018; Gammage and Pascoe 2021; Gammage 20U). At least part of the rhetorical power of this work is owed to its drawing directly on the settler archive that presents early historical accounts of land as 'verdant. open. pleasant and gentle', as 'gentleman's parks, thereby. demonstrating what pre-invasion land looked like under Indigenous custodianship. management, and care (Gammage and Pascoe 2021.25).' 

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    y separately published work icon Overland no. 250 Autumn 2023 26417008 2023 periodical issue

    'Jeff Sparrow on elite capture, Fiannuala Morgan on colonial literature and bushfires, Jordana Silverstein on Lily Brett and Louis Armand on John Tranter, plus outstanding fiction and poetry selected by Claire Corbett and Toby Fitch.' (Publication summary)

    2023
    pg. 23-31
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