The Children's Country

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Creation of a Goolarabooloo Future in North-West Australia

By Stephen Muecke and Paddy Roe

Series: Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures

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The Children's Country explores a significant Indigenous-environmentalist campaign in North-West Australia from 2009 to 2013 that halted a $45 billion liquefied gas project. It focuses on the Goolarabooloo people, the traditional custodians of the land, documenting their deep connection to Country and their ongoing struggle for survival amidst shifting alliances and powerful institutions. Presented in a fictocritical style, the book introduces a novel 'multirealist' analysis of the complex interactions between Indigenous and European spheres of influence.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in Indigenous studies, environmental activism, anthropology, and Australian history. It is ideal for those seeking to understand the complexities of Indigenous land rights and alliances through innovative ethnographic storytelling.

Written in a fictocritical style, this book introduces a new 'multi-realist' kind of analysis that focuses on institutions (Indigenous or European), their spheres of influence and long history of struggle for survival, and how they organized to stay alive as alliances shifted and changed.

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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, The Children's Country, 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.

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By Stephen Muecke and Paddy Roe

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Praised for its remarkable narrative, The Children's Country is recognised as a profound conversation between Stephen Muecke and his mentor Paddy Roe. The work is both a heartfelt homage to the enduring presence of Aboriginal knowledge and a call to honour and protect the land. Reviewers note its poetic immersion into Country, blending theory, story, and lived experience with respect and urgency.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781786616487

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 November 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International

Illustration: 19 b/w photos;

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 219.0mm

Weight: 376g

Pages: 252

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Education & Reference New Zealand and Australia Published Non-Fiction Paddy Roe Series: Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures Stephen Muecke

About the Author

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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