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This book analyses visitor responses to the interpretation of Aboriginal cultural heritage in Australian protected areas, focusing on Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory and the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area in New South Wales.
List of contents
1. Introduction, 2. Visitors being, doing and knowing: The relevance of theory in a settler-colonial context, 3. Sanctioned interpretations of culture and place: Discourses of protected area interpretation, 4.Interruptions/ Revivals/ Reinscriptions: Traditional Custodian led cultural tours, 5. Authenticities, Deficits, 'Aboriginalisms': Visitor constructions of Aboriginality in protected areas, 6. Affectivities: 'Settler structures of feeling' in colonised landscapes, 7. 'Transformations': Visitor 'awakenings' or journeys in 'becoming Aboriginal'?, 8. Conclusion: Heritage, tourism and incommensurable Aboriginal sovereignties
About the author
Vanessa Whittington holds a Doctorate from the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University (WSU) and currently works as a Sessional Academic with the School of Social Sciences, WSU. Her Doctoral research was in the field of critical heritage and tourism studies. She has a Master's Degree in Museum and Heritage Studies, a Master of Arts (Hons) in Women's Studies/ Interdisciplinary Studies and a Bachelor of Arts with majors in History and Political Science. She has previously worked in senior policy and research roles for government and non-government agencies with a human services, social justice and social policy focus. She has published in the areas of Indigenous-visitor relations in protected area landscapes; heritage and contested memory in a settler-colonial context; the marginalisation of working class urban heritage and world heritage discourse and gender.
