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Fissures in the rock: rethinking pride and shame in the moral terrains of Ulu r u
Author(s) -
Waitt Gordon,
Figueroa Robert,
McGee Lana
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00240.x
Subject(s) - pride , shame , indigenous , ethnography , embodied cognition , sociology , argument (complex analysis) , environmental ethics , aesthetics , political science , social psychology , anthropology , psychology , law , epistemology , art , philosophy , ecology , biochemistry , chemistry , biology
Joint management strategies of national parks are extending the pedagogical arm of reconciliation. We explore how this process is operating in Ulu r u–Kata Tju t a National Park. Through our concept of moral terrains, we examine whether the embodied knowledge derived from travelling, witnessing, climbing, walking, touching and being touched by Ulu r u opens moral gateways between indigenous and non‐indigenous people. Our argument relies upon ethnographic materials derived from semi‐structured interviews conducted around photographs taken by recently returned non‐indigenous metropolitan Australians. Our results explore how moral gateways are either opened or closed through the emotions of pride and shame.