The editors are grateful to the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, and the Flinders University of South Australia, for their financial support of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (spaclals) Conference (“The Two Canaries of Climate Change: Island and Polar Places”) held at the une FutureCampus, Parramatta in February 2018. We would also like to thank Gillian Dooley, for her assistance with the event (which led directly to this book); Julie Love, for her care and attention to the manuscript and her devotion to its cause; and Jess Klaassen-Wright for the index.
Russell McDougall thanks Christa Stevens for her continuing support and enthusiasm; Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, for their sustaining friendship and intellectual camaraderie; Greta Thunberg, Ursula Rakova and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner for inspiration.
John C. Ryan acknowledges the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, Australia, and the Nulungu Research Institute at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, for their support and encouragement. He also thanks spaclals, for drawing his attention to scholarship in postcolonial ecocriticism.
Pauline Reynolds thanks Russell McDougall and John C. Ryan for their expertise and guidance. In addition, she is grateful to spaclals and its members past, present and future.