Making Sense of Place

Exploring place from myriad perspectives, this volume presents evocative encounters—such as the Great Barrier Reef experienced through touch or Lake Mungo encountered through sound—while shedding light on the meaning of place for deaf people. Case studies include the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, Inuit hunting grounds in northern Canada, and the songlines of the Anangu peopl...

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Exploring place from myriad perspectives, this volume presents evocative encounters—such as the Great Barrier Reef experienced through touch or Lake Mungo encountered through sound—while shedding light on the meaning of place for deaf people. Case studies include the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, Inuit hunting grounds in northern Canada, and the songlines of the Anangu people in central Australia. Iconic landscapes, lookouts, buildings, gardens, suburbs, grieving places, and even cars all provide contexts for experiencing and understanding "place."

The editors

Frank Vanclay is a professor of rural sociology at the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. His interests are in social impact assessment and social aspects of natural resource management, both areas where ‘place’ is an important concept. He is the past president of the International Rural Sociology Association. He co...

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The editors

Frank Vanclay is a professor of rural sociology at the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. His interests are in social impact assessment and social aspects of natural resource management, both areas where ‘place’ is an important concept. He is the past president of the International Rural Sociology Association. He co-edited The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment, Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Agriculture, Environment and Society: Contemporary Issues for Australia. He is also co-author of The Environmental Imperative: Ecosocial Concerns for Australian Agriculture.

Matthew Higgins worked on this book while senior curator, People and the Environment, at the National Museum of Australia. Presently he is a research fellow in the Museum’s Centre for Historical Research. He has worked in the historical field for the past 25 years and has particular interests in ‘place’. These have been developed through his work with the former Australian Heritage Commission and especially through his oral history and other heritage work in areas such as the Australian alps, Australia’s goldfield regions and other parts of rural and remote Australia. He has led many place-oriented tours for community and professional groups, written several books and numerous articles, and his still photography and short films also explore place in various contexts.

Adam Blackshaw is currently a public programs coordinator at the National Museum of

Australia. In this capacity he has managed a number of innovative outreach programs with communities around Australia, and within the Murray–Darling Basin in particular, utilising new technologies. In 2005 he undertook a research project in the United Kingdom, France and Greece, which explored the potential for applying ecomuseum principles to a national cultural institution. With 15 years experience in the welfare field and as a community cultural development worker, he continues to pursue issues of social inclusion and community capacity building.

Contents
Director’s foreword v
Editors’ preface vi
The editors viii
PART 1: NARRATIVES ON THE EXPERIENCE OF PLACE
1. Place matters Frank Vanclay 3
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Contents
Director’s foreword v
Editors’ preface vi
The editors viii
PART 1: NARRATIVES ON THE EXPERIENCE OF PLACE
1. Place matters Frank Vanclay 3
2. Understanding place through narrative: Using stories to change the places we love and who we are Merrill Findlay 13
3. A personal account of place Ursula de Jong 23
4. Rural women reclaiming their place through symbols, stories and rituals Liza Dale-Hallett, Rhonda Diffey, Quentin O’Keefe and Kerry Wilson 37
5. River songs: A poetic response to Australia’s wounded rivers Brian Wattchow 47
6. Children’s understanding of place: Discursive constructions of the environment in children’s writing and artwork about the Murray–Darling Basin Phil Cormack, Bill Green and Jo-Anne Reid 57
7. Reaching for the Reef: Exploring place through touch Celmara Pocock 77
8. Places of silence Mike Gulliver 87
9. Place as acoustic space: Hearing Australian identity Ros Bandt 95
PART 2: UNDERSTANDING INDIGENOUS SENSES OF PLACE
10. Two thousand generations of place-making Greg Lehman 105
11. An Anangu ontology of place Diana James 109
12. Slowly down the Georgina: Aboriginal cultural heritage and lineal place complexes Stephen Long 121
13. Losing place: Diminishing traditional knowledge of the Arctic coastal landscape Scott Heyes and Peter Jacobs 135
PART 3: MAKING PLACES
14. Stop, revive, survive: The car-place Barbara Holloway 155
15. ‘Your spot’: Marking place with roadside memorials Jennifer Clark 165
16. Reconciling grief in suburban gardens Ruth McManus 175
17. Planting natives: Gardening and belonging to place in Perth, Western Australia Jane Mulcock 183
18. Experiencing ‘the Maze’: Official and unofficial interactions with place in post-conflict Northern Ireland Laura McAtackney 191
19. Pieces of place: Exploring the personal souvenir Jasmine Foxlee, Ursula Frederick and Nicholas Hall 199
20. Place-making — in theory and practice: The Stanley ‘Guided’ Development Plan model Linn Miller, Tony McCall and Karen Eyles 207
21. Local lookouts as places of belonging and escape Bec Tudor 221
22. Senses of urban character Kim Dovey, Stephen Wood and Ian Woodcock 229
23. Sydney Opera House: What’s the point? Natalie Smith 239
24. Affordable places Roger Fay and Undine Sellbach 247
PART 4: ANALYSING AND UTILISING THE SENSE OF PLACE
25. A place for community: West Coast, New Zealand 257
Colin Goodrich and Kaylene Sampson
26. ‘I’m a rural person’: Sense of place for rural health care professionals Anna Spinaze 269
27. Museum outreach programs promoting a sense of place Frank Vanclay, Jo Wills and Ruth Lane 279
28. Touring the moral terrains of Uluru: Pathways of pride and shame Gordon Waitt and Robert Figueroa 289
29. Place, belonging and nativeness in Australia David Trigger 301
30. A pragmatic sense of place Edward Relph 311
31. Place and human being Jeff Malpas 325
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