Issue 52, May 2012

PDF version (ANU ePress) of this issue available here.

Special Section: Minor Histories of the Pacific

Sudesh Mishra and Russell Smith
Editors’ Introduction

Sudesh Mishra
‘Bending Closer to the Ground’: Girmit as Minor History

Nicole Anae
‘Strange Disclosures’: the story of the criminal forger and absconder, Elias Rosenwax and his capture in Levuka by ‘Evarama, the Native Fijian Policeman’, 1871

Mandy Treagus 
From Whakarewarewa to Oxford: Makereti Papakura and the Politics of Indigenous Self-Representation

Margaret Mishra 
Between Women: Indenture, Morality and Health

Rachel Buchanan and Maria Tumarkin
Bread and Breath: Two Reflections on the Ethics of (Doing) History

John O’Carroll 
Totaram’s Ghost

Adrian Mayer 
Rip Van Winkle in Fiji

The Ecological Humanities

Deborah Rose and Thom van Dooren
Introduction and farewell

Ben Dibley
‘The shape of things to come’: Seven theses on the Anthropocene and attachment

Nick Mansfield
‘There must be Decision’: Climate Change Justice

Alice Robinson and Dan Tout
Only Planet: Unsettling Travel, Culture and Climate Change in Settler Australia

Stephen J. Pyne
Pyric Other, Pyric Double: Fire Tame, Fire Feral, Fire Extinct

Lorraine Shannon
Review of Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany, by Matthew Hall