Exploring Place in the Australian Landscape
In the Country of the White Cockatoo
1st Edition
Published on 30. August 2022
XXVI, 489 pages
978-981-19-3213-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers an original framework on how to investigate, understand and translate sense of place at a regional scale.
The book explores contemporary sense of place theory and practice, drawing upon the Western District of Victoria, in Australia, being the "Country of the White Cockatoo". It offers a unique multi-temporal and thematical analytical approach towards comprehending and mapping the values that underpin and determine strengths of human relationships and nuances to this landscape.
Included is a deep ethno-ecological and cross-cultural translation, that takes the reader through both the Western understanding of sense of place as well as the Australian Aboriginal understanding of Country. Both are different intellectual constructions of thoughts, values and ideologies, but which share numerous commonalities due to their archetypal meanings, feelings and values transmitted to humans.
The book explores contemporary sense of place theory and practice, drawing upon the Western District of Victoria, in Australia, being the "Country of the White Cockatoo". It offers a unique multi-temporal and thematical analytical approach towards comprehending and mapping the values that underpin and determine strengths of human relationships and nuances to this landscape.
Included is a deep ethno-ecological and cross-cultural translation, that takes the reader through both the Western understanding of sense of place as well as the Australian Aboriginal understanding of Country. Both are different intellectual constructions of thoughts, values and ideologies, but which share numerous commonalities due to their archetypal meanings, feelings and values transmitted to humans.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Publishing group
Springer Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XXVI, 489 p. 30 illus.
File size
13,33 MB
ISBN-13
978-981-19-3213-7 (9789811932137)
DOI
10.1007/978-981-19-3213-7
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
08/2022
Palgrave Macmillan
€149.79
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Person
Dr David S Jones is Professor (Research) at Monash University, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University. Active in landscape architecture, planning and Indigenous Knowledge Systems research and academia, he oversights strategic planning and urban design at the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.
Content
Entering the Journey into Genius Loci.- Place, Country and Genius Loci.- Sense of Place: The Western District of Australia.- 1800-1840: Country Dreaming.- 1830-1870: Colonial Noontide.- 1860-1900: 'Sunlit Afternoon'.- Salient Threads and Contemporary Narratives.- Sense of Place Mappings.
