Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place
Fighting for Heritage at Australia’s Last Frontier
Abstract
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.
Schlagworte
pipeline protest resource industry transecology Australia Broome Liquefied Natural Gas Tourism Studies aboriginal rights- i–xvi Preface i–xvi
- 205–222 Appendix 205–222
- 223–242 Bibliography 223–242
- 243–248 Index 243–248
- 249–250 About the Author 249–250