Jennifer Hamilton Jennifer Hamilton i(A143133 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Ingratitude in Gratitude to Deborah Bird Rose Jennifer Hamilton , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Swamphen : A Journal of Cultural Ecology , no. 7 2020;

'This is a story of how Debbie Rose grounded my research in unlikely ways and how I repaid her by writing something critically provocative about the field she helped found: the environmental humanities. I don’t feel bad about this, which is odd given my learned tendency towards feelings of guilt. But as a strange kind of free verse elegy I want to explore the ambivalent state I find myself in here: on one hand grieving a lost mentor and friend, and on the other feeling committed to my critical position.'  (Introduction)

1 Rewriting Redevelopment : The Anti-Proprietorial Tone in Sydney Place-Writing Jennifer Hamilton , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 1 no. 18 2018;

'Corporate and government place-making practices are designed to make place a more desirable commodity. In Sydney, this activity capitalises on the extant settler colonial drive towards property ownership. In this context, the labours of artists are often engaged to cultivate an interesting and sophisticated cultural atmosphere in areas that are undergoing top-down redevelopment. The role of literary arts is curious in this context because it does not cultivate the same configurations of community as other types of creative practice. By drawing a distinction between a reading (a live event) and close reading (a studious reflection), this essay engages in the latter as a form of counter-cultural place making. This is specifically the case in relation to two works—Fiona McGregor's novel Indelible Ink (2010) and Brenda Saunders' poem "Sydney Real Estate: FOR SALE" (2012)—that represent critical perspectives on the commodification of place. By engaging in a close reading of these texts, this essay serves the dual purpose of exploring the role of ecocritical literary studies in the real-world oriented field of Environmental Humanities.' (Publication abstract)

1 Explainer : 'Solarpunk', or How to Be an Optimistic Radical Jennifer Hamilton , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 20 July 2017;

'Punks (of the 70s and 80s kind) were not known for their optimism. Quite the opposite in fact. Raging against the establishment in various ways, there was “no future” because, according to the Sex Pistols, punks are “the poison / In your human machine / We’re the future / Your future”. To be punk, was, by definition, to resist the future.

'In contrast, the most basic definition of solarpunk — offered by musician and photographer Jay Springett — is that it is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion and activism' (Introduction)

1 ‘Labour against Wilderness’ and the Trouble with Property beyond The Secret River Jennifer Hamilton , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Green Letters : Studies in Ecocriticism , vol. 20 no. 2 2016; (p. 140-155)
'The trouble with wilderness is well known in ecocriticism, less so are the troubles with property. To open an ecocritical path into the property question, this essay reads Kate Grenville’s 2005 novel The Secret River as an allegory about property ownership in contemporary Australia. Grenville describes the protagonist’s claim to property as ‘labour against wilderness’, which invites an investigation into the conceptual correlation between land that is supposedly untouched and that which is ‘owned’. Intersecting with extant postcolonial analyses of the novel, this essay takes up its representation of the labour and violence involved in white settler claims to land in order to develop an anti-colonial and ecological critique of property. In turn, I argue that labour practices oriented towards the acquisition of property actively work against the projects of decolonisation, on the one hand, and multispecies futures, on the other. The closing section of this essay offers some paths out of the wilderness/property double bind by speculating on methods for directing human action towards alternative futures.' (Publication abstract)
1 Jennifer Hamilton on Philippa Kelly, The King and I Jennifer Hamilton , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 71 no. 1 2011;

— Review of The King and I Philippa Kelly , 2011 single work autobiography
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