2021 Seminars
Presentation Type
Presentation
Location
Zoom streaming
Start Date
30-6-2021 12:30 PM
Description
This experimental and critical ethnography documents the Goolarabooloo’s knowledge of Country, their history of struggle for survival, and the alliances that formed to support them in the battle over James Price Point. It tells the story by walking the Country, from one mode of understanding to the next, from History, to Politics, to Law, to Science, to Economics, to Art—a multirealist analysis that focuses on Indigenous and European institutions and their spheres of influence. Paddy Roe OAM (c1912-2001) was a Goolarabooloo elder and law man from Broome. He published, with Stephen Muecke, Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley (1983) and Reading the Country (1984) with Krim Benterrak and Stephen Muecke. He started the famous Lurujarri Heritage Trail in 1987 as a way of protecting Country by teaching people how to understand it.
Recommended Citation
Muecke, Stephen, "‘Writing The Children’s Country with Paddy Roe’" (2021). Talking Heads Seminar Series. 9.
https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_talkingheads/2021/schedule/9
‘Writing The Children’s Country with Paddy Roe’
Zoom streaming
This experimental and critical ethnography documents the Goolarabooloo’s knowledge of Country, their history of struggle for survival, and the alliances that formed to support them in the battle over James Price Point. It tells the story by walking the Country, from one mode of understanding to the next, from History, to Politics, to Law, to Science, to Economics, to Art—a multirealist analysis that focuses on Indigenous and European institutions and their spheres of influence. Paddy Roe OAM (c1912-2001) was a Goolarabooloo elder and law man from Broome. He published, with Stephen Muecke, Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley (1983) and Reading the Country (1984) with Krim Benterrak and Stephen Muecke. He started the famous Lurujarri Heritage Trail in 1987 as a way of protecting Country by teaching people how to understand it.
