Disasters in Australia and New Zealand Historical Approaches to Unde
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and
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Disasters in Australia and New Zealand
Scott McKinnon • Margaret Cook Editors
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe
Editors Scott McKinnon Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Margaret Cook School of Social Sciences University of the Sunshine Coast Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia
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Foreword
An Australasian book about the histories of disasters could not be more timely. Over the last southern summer, Australia became the planetary symbol of a climate-changed future, the canary in the coal mine. In a nation suffering from unprecedented extremes of heat and aridity and defiantly expanding its coal-mining and export industry, bushfires swept across vast areas of coastal and inland forest, killing people, animals and trees. Bush and city-dwellers wore face masks as smoke engulfed their neighbourhoods for months, and rural folk trucked water and hay to struggling towns and farmers. The long summer of disaster lost any definition as an event and became, instead, a new and frightening normality. Nature and culture were so intertwined that they could not be distinguished. Bushfire is integral to Australian ecologies and human histories, but what was this? As people suffered, survived and recover
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