Geographies of Land, Home and Place
Geographies of Land, Home and Place brings together our expertise in understanding the places and land systems on which we live, how we are housed and the social geographies of inclusion and belonging.
The Project will advance a new relational logic and a history that enhances the capacity of regional planning and development authorities in their future relationship with Indigenous people.
Project dates: 2021–2025
This project aims to clarify the impact of the development of the Western Australia railway on the Noongar people and Country. Rail infrastructure across south-western Western Australia exploited an older network of Noongar pathways; dislocated Noongar families found relocation through rail employment. Working in collaboration with Noongar knowledge custodians the project aims to reconstruct this hitherto overlooked history using a Noongar narrative framework – where storytelling actively maps Country and kinship relations – to plot the relationship with the emergent rail network. The Project will advance a new relational logic and a history that enhances the capacity of regional planning and development authorities in their future relationship with Indigenous people.
The project is funded by the ARC.
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