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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

The Children's Country: Creation of a

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/11/2020
      ISBN13: 9781786616487, 978-1786616487
      ISBN10: 1786616483

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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

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