This book offers an original framework on how to investigate, understand
and translate sense of place at a regional scale.
The book explores contemporary sense of place theory and practice,
drawing upon the Western District of Victoria, in Australia, being the
"Country of the White Cockatoo". It offers a unique multi-temporal and
thematical analytical approach towards comprehending and mapping the
values that underpin and determine strengths of human relationships and
nuances to this landscape.
Included is a deep ethno-ecological and cross-cultural translation, that
takes the reader through both the Western understanding of sense of
place as well as the Australian Aboriginal understanding of Country.
Both are different intellectual constructions of thoughts, values and
ideologies, but which share numerous commonalities due to their
archetypal meanings, feelings and values transmitted to humans.