Transformative Landscapes
Postcolonial Representations of Ulu r u-Kata Tju t a and Tongariro National Parks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12496643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jillian Walliss (0000-0001-9812-4383, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 280-296 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Space and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1206-3312 • E-ISSN: 1552-8308 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1206331213499470 |
| OpenAlex | W2034767822 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
Uluru-Kata Tjuta and Tongariro National Parks are arguably Australia and New Zealand’s premier iconic landscapes. This article explores how the visual representation of the parks altered following the late 20th-century transformation of Australia and New Zealand into postcolonial nations. It compares 20th-century representations evident in archival posters, tourist guidebooks, and photographs with early 21st-century government branding strategies. This comparison reveals contrasting government motives concerning land rights, the conservation estate, and tourism. Whereas Uluru-Kata Tjuta was reconceived as a landscape of cultural and economic recovery for the traditional owners, including extensive representational revisions to present an enduring Aboriginal presence, imaging of Tongariro remains ahistorical. I argue that this outcome reflects the continuance of 20th-century colonial representations that minimized Maori cultural associations in order to maximize the landscape’s capacity as a site for tourist and filmic consumption
Archaeology · Colonialism · Continuance · Cultural landscape · Economy · Environmental ethics · Estate · Ethnology · Geography · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Tourism · Transformative learning · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |