The Children's Country

Creation of a Goolarabooloo Future in North-West Australia

The Children's Country
Stephen Muecke, Paddy Roe
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h219 x 154mm - 252pg
16 Nov 2020 UK
9781786616487
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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.
In this remarkable book, Stephen Muecke continues his conversation with his mentor, Paddy Roe. Their new story is a guide to a possible future, based on a past that is never simply past. Paddy Roe is always, and always will be, present, while Muecke remains his enquiring listener and dutiful scribe. This is our children' s country. To disrespect country, to harm it, is to harm them. --Tony Birch, author and essayist This is how you walk country, in it, with it, talking to us dreamy day by day walking the sea and the red soil, theory and story walking by our side, too, never short of hard facticity as the spirit children play. --Mick Taussig, professor emeritus of anthropology, Columbia University
Stephen Muecke is professor of creative writing at Flinders University, and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Recent books are Bruno Latour and the Humanities, edited with Rita Felski, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 and The Mother' s Day Protest and other Fictocritical Essays, Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016. Paddy Roe, OAM (c1912-2001) was a Goolarabooloo Elder and Law man from Broome. He published, with Stephen Muecke, Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley (1983) and with Krim Benterrak and Stephen Muecke, Reading the Country (1984). He started the famous Lurujarri Heritage Trail in 1987 as a way of protecting Country by teaching people how to understand it.
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ISBN-13: 9781786616487
Published: 16 Nov 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
Format: Paperback
Height: 219mm
Width: 154mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 376g
Pages: 252

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