Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place: Fighting for Heritage at Australia’s Last Frontier

Carsten Wergin

doi:10.5771/9781793648266

Summary

The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest action in Australian history: The Walmadany / James Price Point conflict. Carsten Wergin offers a detailed account of how local community members, Indigenous custodians, heritage preservationists, environmentalists, and tourists collaboratively joined forces to successfully oppose the construction of a $45 billion (AUD) liquefied natural gas facility on sacred Indigenous land. Tourism, Indigeneity and the Importance of Place is a close reading of Aboriginal ‘country’ and its living heritage. It follows the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, an Indigenous Tourism experience that would have been destroyed by the LNG project, to offer a timely discussion of the sociocultural and political relevance of heritage and tourism for ecological preservation and the wider decolonial project in Australia and beyond.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4825-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4826-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 250
Product type: Book Titles

1. 1. Figures No access
  2. Tables No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Notes No access
1. 2.1 Ethical Clearance No access
2. 2.2 Coming Together No access
3. 2.3 Becoming Part of Collaborations No access
4. 2.4 On Dora Street No access
5. 2.5 Family and Friends No access
6. 2.6 Environs Kimberley: An Insider’s View on Multisited Protest No access
7. Notes No access
1. 3.1 Heritage in the Anthropocene No access
2. 3.2 Hidden Qualities of Indigenous Tourism No access
3. 3.3 Further Facts on “Mining vs. Tourism” in Australia No access
4. Notes No access
1. 4.1 Resources as Assemblage No access
2. 4.2 Resource Exploration versus Heritage Tourism No access
3. 4.3 Australian Indigenous Country as Living Heritage No access
4. Notes No access
1. 5.1 Conflicting World(view)s and the Power to Disagree No access
2. 5.2 An Australian Dreaming No access
3. 5.3 Transecology in Action No access
4. 5.4 Dreamings beyond Opportunity No access
5. 5.5 Heritage-Making across Multiple Worlds No access
1. 6.1 Indigenous Lore versus Western Law No access
2. 6.2 Science Consultants versus Citizen Scientists No access
3. 6.3 Care and Concern No access
4. Notes No access
1. 7.1 Overcoming Western Mythologies in Transecological Reality No access
2. 7.2 “White Magic” No access
3. 7.3 Translation as the “Last Frontier” No access
Chapter 8: All Heritage Is Collaborative No access Pages 201 - 204
1. Tourism No access
2. Mining No access
1. Further Readings No access
Index No access Pages 243 - 248
About the Author No access Pages 249 - 250