Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place

Fighting for Heritage at Australia’s Last Frontier

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Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place

Fighting for Heritage at Australia’s Last Frontier

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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.
For more information, check out A Conversation with Carsten Wergin, author of Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place: Fighting for Heritage at Australia’s Last Frontier

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Learning Through Experience
Chapter 2 ‘Nowhere Else But Here’
Chapter 3 From Transculturality To Transecology
Chapter 4 The Four Pillars of Settler-Colonialism
Chapter 5 On Common Ground
Chapter 6 Knowledge and Place-Making
Chapter 7 Collaborative Science
Chapter 8 All Heritage Is Collaborative

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Published 21 Dec 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 266
ISBN 9781793648259
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 38 BW Illustrations, 8 Tables
Dimensions 240 x 158 mm
Series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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