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Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Her first duty : beauty, morality, and the gilded cage -- To maintain vigour : population, fitness, and race -- The song of the skirt : raw nature and fashionable conduct -- Good breeding : combatting the decline of the population -- The hand that rocks the cradle : scientific mothers and strong babies -- Cleanliness is next to godliness : health, habit, and domestic economy -- We do hereby authorise and require : contagion, public health, and a return to home -- Synthesis -- Bibliography -- Index.

This paper has benefited greatly from discussions with Godfrey Baldacchino, University of Prince Edward Island in Canada, David Milne in Malta, and Richard Herr, Stewart Williams and Andrew Harwood at the University of Tasmania. Research informing the paper was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP0342802) funded between 2003 and 2005. ; In light of the foregoing I intend to examine the emergence of the 'New Tasmania' as an open and accessible island imaginary of global international desire, which some suggest is at risk of reduction to an 'everywhere'. The term 'New Tasmania' encapsulates a thrust by State Government to ensure that Tasmania benefits from The constitution of the 'New Tasmania' 89 economic globalization by marketing its natural advantages (as an island) without degrading those same advantages. ; peer-reviewed

This paper seeks to contribute to the theorization of belonging as a resource on which people draw in the local politics of place—especially in contestations over ecological space and decisions about land use that resonate at many scales and across many domains. The task is advanced with reference to a controversial development proposal to build a marina and residential subdivision on estuarine mudflats near a seaside dormitory suburb in the capital city of Hobart on the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Particular attention is paid to story lines generated in three discourse coalitions which have formed around the controversy over the proposal: a multimillion dollar mainland company known as the Walker Corporation, the Tasmanian state government, and a community action group known as Save Ralphs Bay Inc. Techniques of narrative and discourse analysis are used to read these story lines for evidence of belonging. In this analysis of 'text, talk, and practice', opportunities arise to consider the wider salience of the case to geographers, among them connection and attachment to place, and counterpoints of belonging such as social and ecological dispossession and displacement.

Long-standing imaginings of Van Diemen's Land—as island, as ends of worlds, as pristine wilderness, as emptied of Aborigines—continue to shape contemporary lutruwita/Tasmania. In this superbly contextualised engagement with the work of seven colonial artists, Hutch and Stratford show how associationist thinking was integral to settler landscapes of dispossession and possession. Landscape, Association, Empire provides a surprisingly hopeful wrestling with the fraught legacies of settler colonialism; the future can be imagined otherwise. —Professor Lesley Head, University of Melbourne, Australia Landscape, Association, Empire explores how representation echoes, shapes, and haunts understanding. It carefully documents the interplay of art, image, policy, and action that tried to create Van Diemen's Land as a place of white innocence and Indigenous absence in the presence of genocide. Its impressive scholarship traces the contexts of colonising through place-making and place-imagining as distilled in landscape paintings. It insists that representation is never neutral or context free; always it has consequences. Hutch and Stratford's brilliant rethinking of colonial imagery undermines narratives of settlement, inviting new conceptualisations of how Tasmania's pasts, presents, and futures connect. —Professor Richie Howitt, Macquarie University, Australia This fascinating and important book critically examines the diverse works of seven nineteenth century topographical artists, surveyors and writers in Van Diemen's Land. It is illustrated with over 60 carefully selected drawings, paintings, and maps. The authors provide many original and thought-provoking insights into the ways settlers' aesthetic associations were used to construct different ideas of place and home. —Professor Charles Watkins, University of Nottingham, UK Philip Hutch is an honorary associate in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania. His research focus is on the intellectual history of pictures of place and landscape and on association and processes of mind. Elaine Stratford is a professor in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania, with interests in the geohumanities and cultural and political geography and in how people flourish in place, in their movements, in daily life, and over the life-course

Sustainability may be viewed as a principled form of conduct. Among its effects is a growing emphasis on civil society and local governance through which the members of communities are encouraged to rethink democratic ideas and practices, and reconfigure how to live. Although normative, sustainability cannot properly be conceived as prescriptive; such a characteristic would undermine central elements of it, such as participation and equity. In this sense, requiring both mechanisms for community participation in decisionmaking and planning, and an ethic of engagement based on trust, reciprocity, and an acceptance of the rights of noncitizens and nonhuman nature, sustainability might also be construed as a deliberative form of democratic governance. Perhaps problematically, in the last decade this governmental aspect of sustainability has come to be associated with the procedures of communicative rationality. Supported by research conducted over three years in a local government in Tasmania, Australia, we argue that a deliberative and democratic praxis of sustainability may be effective only if and when underpinned by substantive changes to the exercise of power and leadership, and to the ways in which deliberative decisionmaking and planning are pursued. Communicative rationality alone is unlikely to achieve these ends.

Earth : a grain of sand against a world of territory : experiences of sand and sandscapes in China / Marijn Nieuwenhuis -- Air : spacing the atmosphere : the politics of territorialising air / Weiqiang Lin -- Water : order and the offshore : the territories of deep-water oil production / Jon Phillips -- Fire : pyropolitics for a planet of fire / Nigel Clark -- Mudflats : fluid terrain : climate contestations in the Bolivian highlands / Clayton Whitt -- Floodplains : where sheets of water intersect : infrastructural culture : from flooding to hydro-power in Winnipeg, Manitoba / Stephanie C. Kane -- Cities : mare-magnum : urbanisation of land and sea / Ross Exo Adams -- Ice : placing territory on ice : militarisation, measurement, and murder in the high Arctic / Johanne Bruun and Philip Steinberg -- Bodies : the body of the drowned : convicts and shipwrecks / Elaine Stratford and Thérèse Murray -- Boats : settler colonial territorial imaginaries : maritime mobilities and the "tow-backs" of asylum seekers / Kate Coddington -- Shores : sharks, nets, and more-than-human territory in eastern Australia / Leah Gibbs -- Seabeds : sub-marine territory : living and working on the seafloor during the Sealab II experiment / Rachael Squire