Towards a modern history of Gondwanaland

Gondwanaland was a southern mega-continent that began to break up 180 million years ago. This article explores Gondwanaland�s modern history, its unexpected political and cultural purchase since the 1880s. Originating with geological palaeontological research in Gond region of Central India, �Gondwana� has become recognisable useful, especially settler colonial contexts. prospectus sets out program for highly unusual �transnational� project, involving scholars Australia, Antarctica, Africa South America. Unpredictably across five continents former Gondwanaland, term itself signals depth time place spectrum Indigenous land politics, coal-based extractive and, paradoxically, nationalist environmental politics. All kinds once-living biota deliver us fossil fuels today � �gifts Gondwana� some geologists call hemisphere coal, gas, petroleum so history is also substantive Anthropocene.