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ASJ | ZfA 42/2025 'Contemporary Australia and Emerging Challenges' can also be downloaded as open-access at the ASJ | ZfA website: asj.australienstudien.org The special issue ASJ|ZfA 42/2025, 'Contemporary Australia and Emerging Challenges',an Rights, Language, Culture, and Resilience, and Indigenous Knowledges, Worldviews, and Methodologies. Given the interconnected and transdisciplinary nature of these themes, this Special Issue highlights the significance of showcasing and combining perspectives from diverse fields such as Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Environmental Studies and Geography. The 'Australian Studies Journal Zeitschrift für Australienstudien' is an academic publication issued by the editors on behalf of the German Association for Australian Studies with a regular issue in summer and special issues in spring and autumn.It discusses a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects relevant to Australia and its society. Stefanie Affeldt (Lead) is a post-doctoral researcher at the HCCH, Universität Heidelberg, as well as a member of the GASt executive board, the Specialised Information Service Anglo-American Culture advisory board, and the Centre for Australian Studies team. With a B.A. in Sociology (Macquarie University), an M.A. in Cultural and Social History (University of Essex), and a Dr. rer. pol from the Universität Hamburg, her area of research is racism analysis focussing on the history of whiteness in Australia. In the editorial team of the Australian Studies Journal Zeitschrift für Australienstudien, Stefanie acts as Lead Managing Editor. Christina Ringel completed her PhD at the University of Cologne with a thesis on possession in the endangered Aboriginal language Miriwoong. She has held a PostDoc position at the UoC, a position as Subject Librarian at TU Dortmund, and is currently pursuing a PostDoc project at TUD. Christina's recent conference papers and publications were concerned with contributions of linguistics to Native Title Claims, definiteness and possession in Miriwoong, evidentiality in Australian languages, and the influence of linguistic human rights and identification with territory and language on language vitality. She is a research affiliate at CoEDL, a member of ALS, FEL, GBS and GASt, and serves as Research Coordinator at the CAS, on the Board of Directors of CCLS and on the Advisory Board of FID AAC.
