- Title
- Aboriginal cultural tourism: enterprise, contested mobilities and negotiating a responsible Australian travel culture
- Creator
- Barnes, Jillian
- Relation
- Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues Vol. 18, Issue 1, p. 116-142
- Publisher
- University of South Australia
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- While histories of tourism and heritage management have traditionally been told as white entrepreneurs and conservationists taking the initiative, historians since the late-1990s have contested this understanding by demonstrating that Aboriginal Australians were enterprising from the outset of colonialism, engaging in tourism for their own purposes. This inquiry draws on historical archives, visual culture, diaries of anthropologists and oral testimonies to examine the contribution made by Aboriginal peoples to the development of a more responsible national travel culture. It reflects on early organic Aboriginal cultural tourism, missionary and state attempts to control such independence, and Australia's national tourism organisation's launch onto global markets of organised tourism to the Great Central Aboriginal Reserve, before focusing on significant negotiated encounters between tourism scouts and customary knowledge-keepers at major ceremonial complexes in the early-mid-twentieth century. It argues that through voluntary and coerced engagement in tourism, Aboriginal Australians have long asserted claims to land and identity while seeking to control mobility into ancestral lands, preserve culture under threat, build new futures and educate visitors in more appropriate protocols of travel.
- Subject
- Aboriginal cultural tourism; Indigenous entrepreneurship; contested mobility; cultural heritage management; tourist gaze
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1323981
- Identifier
- uon:24929
- Identifier
- ISSN:1440-5202
- Language
- eng
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