TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kerr,Rosemary
TI  - Roads, Tourism and Cultural History: On the Road in Australia 
T2  - Tourism and Cultural Change
SN  - 9781845416683
AV  - G155.A75 K47 2019
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Bristol, UK, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : 
PB  - Channel View Publications, 
KW  - Automobile travel
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Australia
KW  - Tourism
KW  - Australasian & Pacific history
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - Tourism industry
KW  - HISTORY / Social History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Cultural Routes
KW  - Road literature
KW  - Road movies
KW  - Road tourism
KW  - Roads
KW  - The road
KW  - cultural heritage
KW  - cultural history
KW  - road heritage
KW  - road history
KW  - road trip
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations and Metric Conversions --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Imagining the Road --; 1. Making Tracks --; 2. The Call of the Open Road --; 3. 'Discovering' Australia --; 4. Travelling North --; 5. 'Going Around': On the Road to Nowhere? --; 6. Freedom on the Wallaby? --; 7. What Goes on Tour... .: Communities and Rituals of the Road --; 8. Blood on the Bitumen: The Dark Side of the Road --; 9. Politics and Protest on the Road --; 10. Romancing the Road: Constructing Australian Icons --; Are We There Yet? Conclusions on the Road --; Select Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Roads and road tourism loom large in the Australian imagination as distance and mobility have shaped the nation's history and culture, but roads are more than simply transport routes; they embody multiple layers of history, mythology and symbolism. Drawing on Australian travel writing, diaries and manuscripts, tourism literature, fiction, poetry and feature films, this book explores how Australians have experienced and imagined roads and road touring beyond urban settings: from Aboriginal 'songlines' to modern-day road trips. It also tells the stories of iconic roads, including the Birdsville Track, Stuart Highway and Great Ocean Road, and suggests alternative approaches to heritage and tourism interpretation of these important routes. The ongoing impact of the colonial past on Indigenous peoples and contemporary Australian society and culture - including representations of the road and road travel - is explored throughout the book. The volume offers a new way of thinking about roads and road tourism as important strands in a nation's cultural fabric
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845416690
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845416690
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781845416690/original
ER  -