Making Sense of Place    Exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses Edited by Frank Vanclay, Matthew Higgins and Adam Blackshaw Published by the National Museum of Australia Press, 2008 To order, click HERE

Making Sense of Place: Exploring the concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses" is a full colour book and accompanying DVD which explores place from myriad perspectives and through evocative encounters. The Great Barrier Reef is experienced through the sense of touch, Lake Mungo is encountered through sound and ‘listening’, and light is shed 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 the car as place — all provide contexts for experiencing and understanding ‘place’ and our ‘sense of place’. The book contains a selection of papers presented at the Senses of Place conference held in Hobart in 2006. 

• Contents

  Director's Foreword

  Editors' Preface

           The Editors
 

• 2. Understanding place through narrative.Merrill Findlay

  3. A personal account of place. Ursula de Jong

  4. Rural women reclaiming their place through symbols, stories and rituals. Liza Dale-Hallett, Rhonda Diffey, Quentin O'Keefe & Kerry Wilson

  5. River songs: A poetic response to Australia’s wounded rivers. Brian Wattchow

  6. Children’s understanding of place. Phil Cormack, Bill Green & Jo-Anne Reid

  7. Reaching for the Reef: Exploring place through touch. Celmara Pocock

  8. Places of silence. Mike Gulliver

          9. Place as acoustic space: Hearing Australian identity. Ros Bandt

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  PART 2: UNDERSTANDING ABORIGINAL SENSES OF PLACE

  10. Two thousand generations of place-making. Greg Lehman

  11. An Anangu ontology of place. Diana James

  12. Slowly down the Georgina: Aboriginal cultural heritage and lineal place complexes. Stephen Long
  

          13. Losing Place: Diminishing traditional knowledge of the Arctic coastal landscape. Scott Heyes & Peter Jacobs

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  PART 3: MAKING PLACES

  14. Stop, revive, survive: the car-place. Barbara Holloway

  15. 'Your spot': Marking place with roadside memorials. Jennifer Clark

  16. Reconciling grief in suburban gardens. Ruth McManus

  17. Planting natives: Gardening and belonging to place in Perth, Western Australia. Jane Mulcock

  18. Experiencing ‘the Maze’: Official and unofficial interactions with place in post-conflict Northern Ireland. Laura McAtackney

  19. Pieces of Place: exploring the personal souvenir. Jasmine Foxlee, Ursula Frederick & Nicholas Hall

  20. Place making in theory and practice. Linn Miller, Tony McCall & Karen Eyles

  21. Local lookouts as places of belonging and escape. Bec Tudor

  22. Senses of urban character. Kim Dovey, Stephen Wood & Ian Woodcock

  23. Sydney Opera House: What’s the point? Natalie Smith

• 24. Affordable places. Roger Fay & Undine Sellbach
  

   
  

  PART 4: ANALYSING AND UTILISING THE SENSE OF PLACE

  25. A place for community: West Coast, New Zealand. Colin Goodrich & Kaylene Sampson

  26. “I’m a rural person”: Sense of place for rural health care professionals. Anna Spinaze

  27. Museum outreach programs promoting a sense of place. Frank Vanclay, Jo Wills & Ruth Lane

  28. Touring the moral terrains of Uluru: Pathways of pride and shame. Gordon Wait & Robert Figueroa

  29. Place, belonging and nativeness in Australia. David Trigger

  30. A pragmatic sense of place. Edward Relph

  31. Place and human being. Jeff Malpas

   

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Last update 27 May 2008