Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place - Fighting for Heritage At Australias Last Frontier

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

List 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

About the author

Carsten Wergin is associate professor of anthropology at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

Summary

The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest action in Australian history. Carsten Wergin offers 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.

Product details

• Authors: Carsten Wergin, Wergin Carsten
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781793648259
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-825-9
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society; Anthropology of Tourism: Herit
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Trade Unions, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Industrial arbitration & negotiation, Political activism / Political engagement, Social discrimination and social justice, Industrial arbitration and negotiation