The Children's Country

Creation of a Goolarabooloo Future in North-West Australia

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The Children's Country

Creation of a Goolarabooloo Future in North-West Australia

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In North-West Australia, between 2009 and 2013, a major Indigenous-environmentalist alliance waged a successful campaign to stop a huge industrial development, a $45 billion liquefied gas plant proposed by Woodside and its partners. The Western Australian government and key Indigenous institutions also pushed hard for this, making the custodians of the Country, the Goolarabooloo, an embattled minority.

This experimental ethnography documents the Goolarabooloo’s knowledge of Country, their long history of struggle for survival, and the alliances that formed to support them. Written in a fictocritical style, it introduces a new ‘multirealist’ kind of analysis that focuses on institutions (Indigenous or European), their spheres of influence, and how they organised to stay alive as alliances shifted and changed.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

DAY 1-WALKING

DAY 2-HISTORY

DAYS 3 & 4-LAW

DAY 5-SCIENCE

DAY 6-POLITICS

DAY 7-ECONOMICS

DAY 8-ART

DAY 9-BACK TO CIVILISATION

APPENDIX 1

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Product details

Published Nov 16 2020
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 252
ISBN 9781786616487
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 19 b/w photos;
Dimensions 219 x 154 mm
Series Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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