'This collection of case studies is unique in scope and invigorating in its complexity, vibrant terrain indeed. It opens new conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and with the earth, water, atmosphere, and other animals, in their entangled histories. It is compelling and affecting. The consequences of the global omission of the experiences and knowledge of Indigenous peoples are poignantly documented, as are the exclusions of racialised sovereignty and far-reaching patterns of gendered violence. Here, though, Indigenous perspectives drive analysis. There are furious stories about capitalist exploitation, colonial dispossession and environmental destruction, but also re-storying of those that reveal the genius of resistance by humans in concert with the more-than-human. Writing with Country is animated by ‘future ancestors’ in Wahine resistance in Aotearoa. In Munyama Forest in Central Zambia, the co-resistance of humans, ‘livid spirits’, and ‘earthly elements’ reworks oppressive state power. In Australia, on the banks of Goolay’yari, mangroves gather and hold life, affording ecological alternatives to the borders of colonial dispossession and environmental havoc. Dineo Seshee Bopape’s art reworks the liveliness of the earth, summoning humans as kin, co-resisters of environmental degradation and colonial sovereignty. On the post-disaster coast of Arahama, Japan, a skate park is constructed in a tsunami-ravaged home, fostering collective resilience, bodily joy and interrelationship with the power of the ocean.Critical attention to infrastructure is a stand-out quality of this collection. From the infrastructures of neglect in Australia to the infrastructural damage and dispossession of the Standing Rock Sioux in the laying of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the sometimes-rotten core of democratic provision of infrastructure is exposed. In Canada, infrastructures of ‘gore’, racialised and gendered domination, succeed but also fail. They are challenged by infrastructures of care oriented – like this book – to the ‘mutual well-being’ of all and the possibility of differently dwelling together.'– Dr Penelope Rossiter, Western Sydney University
