Performing Place, Practising Memories: Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State (Space and Place Book 8)

"During the 1970s a wave of 'counter-culture' people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked social dramas that portrayed the use of both public and private space. Through their public performances and in their everyday spatial encounters, these people resisted the bureaucratic state but, in the process, they also contributed to the cultivation and propagation of state effects."--Publisher website CONTENTS FIGURES AND MAPS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introducing Place. Fieldwork and Framework Chapter 1. Colonising Place: The Mutilation of Memory Chapter 2. Countering Place: Hippies, Hairies and ‘Enacted Utopia’ Chapter 3 Performing Place: Amphitheater Dramas Chapter 4. Commodifying Place: The Metamorphosis of the Markets Chapter 5. Planning Place: Main Street Blues Chapter 6. Dancing Place: Cultural Renaissance and Tjapukai Theatre Chapter 7. Protesting Place: Environmentalists, Aboriginal People and the Skyrail Chapter 8. Creating Place: The Production of a Space for Difference REFERENCES INDEX