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Feminism and environmentalism will not make you Indigenous: Arlie Alizzi, ‘Utopianism, Eco-Criticism and Colonial Fantasy: Germaine Greer’s White Beech as a case study in settler futurity’, in Bronwyn Carlson, Madi Day, Sandy O’Sullivan, Tristan Kennedy (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures, Routledge, 2023

16Aug23

Abstract: This chapter reflects on white feminist anti-trans rhetoric and European utopianism as examples of settler futurity. It outlines my relationship to utopianism and feminism using the example of Germaine Greer’s memoir, White Beech. White Beech traces Greer’s return to Australia from the United Kingdom and her acquisition of property on Yugambeh land with the intention of turning it into a forest conservation project and ‘rewilding’ it. I use White Beech to reflect on utopianism’s complex and consumptive relationship to Aboriginal peoples, with particular attention to settler engagements with the Gold Coast and surrounds.


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