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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

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lexington Books (December 21, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 266 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1793648255
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1793648259
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.21 x 0.84 x 9.43 inches