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Tourism and Place-Making at Uluru (Ayers Rock)

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  • Title: Tourism and Place-Making at Uluru (Ayers Rock): From Wasteland to Spiritual Birthing Site, 1929-1958
  • Author(s): Jillian Barnes
  • Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
  • Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
  • Series: New Directions in the Humanities
  • Journal Title: The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review
  • Keywords: Place-making, Tourist gaze, Tourist site sacralisation, Indigenous dispossession, Cultural appropriation, National identity, Exploration, Wilderness, Environmentalism, Anthropology, Totemic place
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 9
  • Date: November 17, 2006
  • ISSN: 1447-9508 (Print)
  • ISSN: 1447-9559 (Online)
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v03i09/41838
  • Citation: Barnes, Jillian. 2006. "Tourism and Place-Making at Uluru (Ayers Rock): From Wasteland to Spiritual Birthing Site, 1929-1958." The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review 3 (9): 77-104. doi:10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v03i09/41838.
  • Extent: 28 pages
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Abstract

This paper traces the tourist gazes constructed for Uluru (Ayers Rock) by Australia's official tourism authority when the new nation underwent tumultuous socio-political change, ideological ferment and an identity realignment.