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This chapter is a necessary prologue to Moment One. In order to understand the case study, an in-depth exploration of place history and the dispossession of traditional owners over the course of two centuries is an essential precondition for the emergence of Moment One. This chapter outlines place history as deep context and interweaves it with lived experience to communicate the ways in which processes of dispossession and cultural ideals were enacted at Goolhi. The direct consequences of state power and policy directives upon local lived experience are clearly demonstrated as competing understandings of land and of plausible cultural identities are invoked in the landscape. It involves the first-hand account of a local indigenous woman whose family was removed from the land at Goolhi.
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Baker, C. (2021). Dispossession/Possession: Prologue to Moment One. In: A Sociology of Place in Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6240-6_4
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