Uncertain Seasons in the El Niño Continent: Local and Global Views

• Authors: Robin Libby

Abstracts

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.’

Keywords

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Australia; El Niño cycles; global change; environment and identity; eco-fiction; Janette Turner Hospital; Jane Harper

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 28/3
• Pages: 7-19

Contributors

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Robin Libby

• Australian National University, Canberra

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