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'As global climate change shifts seasonal patterns, local and uncertain seasons of Australia have global relevance. Australia’s literature tracks extreme local weather events, exploring ‘slow catastrophes’ and ‘endurance.’ Humanists can change public policy in times when stress is a state of life, by reflecting on the psyches of individuals, rather than the patterns of the state. ‘Probable’ futures, generated by mathematical models that predict nature and economics, have little to say about living with extreme weather. Hope is not easily modelled. The frameworks that enable hopeful futures are qualitatively different. They can explore the unimaginable by offering an ‘interior apprehension.’' (Publication abstract)
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Uncertain Seasons in the El Niño Continent : Local and Global Views
Anglica : An International Journal of English Studies
Subjects:
- My Country 1908 single work poetry
- Like Nothing on This Earth : A Literary History of the Wheatbelt 2017 multi chapter work criticism
- Oyster 1996 single work novel
- The Dry 2016 single work novel
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