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1 #ArtsforSurvival : Turning to the Humanities in Times of Crisis Libby Robin , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Humanities Australia , November no. 12 2021; (p. 5-14) 'In 2018, I became a creative worker rather than an academic. I left my university position to take my scholarly skills to a wider audience. My interests broadly focus on the ‘environmental humanities’, an emerging response across many disciplines and the cultural sector to rapidly changing environments—natural and social, local and global. The environmental humanities use creativity, including writing, art, music and exhibitions, to work with audiences and communities personally, to try to slow planetary damage and to heal personal stress. Documenting environmental decline is not enough to create change: dismal stories just paralyse people, including the narrators of such stories, as climate scientists regularly testify.1 In distancing myself from institutional pressures, I sought out different freedoms that might enable me to contribute more directly to the transition to a carbon-neutral future for the planet, to find more fairness for its people and more sustainable and happier ways of living with the crises and change already happening. The Climarte movement is one impressive model. Climarte sponsors festivals that support renewable energy with public art, brings together business, philanthropy and artists to fulfil its heartening motto: Art plus Climate equals Change. 2 The initiative began in Melbourne in 2015, and now reaches well beyond big cities, taking in regional areas like the Latrobe Valley where emissions reduction affects local industries. Working with innovative social movements like Climarte enables an individual to contribute to the broader community, especially to support people adversely affected by necessary economic transitions.' (Introduction)
1 Flannery's Bedrock Libby Robin , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 418 2020; (p. 15-16)
— Review of Life : Selected Writings Tim Flannery , 2019 selected work essay criticism

'One of the pleasures of reviewing a book is reading it slowly, paying attention to the rhythms and its author’s intentions, impulses, and indulgences. Reading is always a conversation between writer and reader. A major collection like Life: Selected writings takes this experience to a new level. This is not just a conversation between a writer now and a reader now, but a writer then, his choices now, the sum of those choices as arrayed in a substantial blue volume, and the reader with a ‘long now’ to luxuriate in the exchange.' (Introduction)
1 Uncertain Seasons in the El Niño Continent : Local and Global Views Libby Robin , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Anglica : An International Journal of English Studies , vol. 28 no. 3 2019; (p. 7-19)

'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)
1 Seasons and Nomads: Reflections on Bioregionalism in Australia Libby Robin , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place, 2012; (p. 278-294)
1 The Eco-Humanities as Literature: A New Genre? Libby Robin , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 23 no. 3 2008; (p. 290-304)
1 The Problematic Pastoral : Ecocriticism in Australia Libby Robin , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , August no. 42 2007;
— Review of The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007 anthology criticism
1 Home and Away: Australian Sense of Place Libby Robin , 2007 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , February no. 41 2007;
1 Conference-Ville Libby Robin , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 258 2004; (p. 55-56)
1 Frontiers i "In America, the frontier was where 'we' met", Libby Robin , 1996 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 145 1996; (p. 67)
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