E-raamat: Shadow Country: Reimagining Place and Story in Settler Colonial Australia

Emily Potters Shadow Country is a prescient and necessary booka powerful critique of settler times and imaginaries that shape Australias colonial past and extractive futures. With clarity and care, Potter traces the debris of settler-colonial place-making practices that continue to shadow landscapes, while opening space for what exists otherwise: reparative, hopeful, decolonial modes of being together in the world. This book invites us to reckon with histories of harm and to imagine more generative futures grounded in fragile but persistent ethical relations. Professor Donna Houston, School of Communication, Society and Culture, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia

Emily Potters Shadow Country is an important and timely analysis of Australias settler colonial present. This book focuses on those vanishing pointscalled shadow places by the philosopher Val Plumwoodwhere colonial privilege and extractivist industry secrete their externalities. Adroitly blending literary and cultural criticism, Shadow Country uncovers the processes by which Australia hides its dirty work in the plain sight of its public euphemisms. But Potter also shows how communities have refused to go quietly along with these impositions. Again and again, Potter brings us to these points of refusal, protest, bleak irony and uncanny ambivalence. Shadow Country advocates for a messier, more honest and more fully enlivened world. Professor Tony Hughes-DAeth, Chair of Australian Literature, University of Western Australia