This book explores a series of Australian 'shadow places' that manifest complex stories of colonised Australia in the throes of environmental crisis. These are places-from nuclear testing grounds, to extractivist landscapes, to the frontiers of colonial violence-that bear the heaviest burdens of capitalist colonial culture, but are routinely considered out of sight and out of mind. Engaging with a range of shadow places across southern Australia via literary, cultural, and critical sources, Shadow Country argues that these places are with us all the time, threaded into the imaginative and material worlds that compose our homes. Through localised stories of environmental disaster, colonial violence, and profound injustice, shadow places connect to the most pressing issues facing human society-environmental futures, social justice, and the imperative of decolonisation.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars with an interest in the intersection of environmental crisis and colonial legacies, and the complexity of living in a time of reckoning with these.
| ISBN: | 9781032417646 |
| Publication date: | 12th June 2026 |
| Author: | Emily Potter |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 184 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Environmental Humanities |
| Genres: |
Landscape architecture and design Literary studies: general Social impact of environmental issues Civil engineering, surveying and building History |
This book explores a series of Australian 'shadow places' that manifest complex stories of colonised Australia in the throes of environmental crisis. These are places-from nuclear testing grounds, to extractivist landscapes, to the frontiers of colonial violence-that bear the heaviest burdens of capitalist colonial culture, but are routinely considered out of sight and out of mind. Engaging with a range of shadow places across southern Australia via literary, cultural, and critical sources, Shadow Country argues that these places are with us all the time, threaded into the imaginative and material worlds that compose our homes. Through localised stories of environmental disaster, colonial violence, and profound injustice, shadow places connect to the most pressing issues facing human society-environmental futures, social justice, and the imperative of decolonisation.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars with an interest in the intersection of environmental crisis and colonial legacies, and the complexity of living in a time of reckoning with these.
Shadow Country features in the following genres: Landscape architecture and design, Literary studies: general, Social impact of environmental issues, Civil engineering, surveying and building, History
Shadow Country is available in Hardback
Shadow Country was written by Emily Potter and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Shadow Country has 184 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Environmental Humanities series
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