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    Utopian resort living: Islands of reclamation and environmental resistance in Bali and Western Australia

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    Authors
    Kerr, Thor
    Wardana, A.
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Kerr, T. and Wardana, A. 2019. Utopian resort living: Islands of reclamation and environmental resistance in Bali and Western Australia. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. 18 (6): pp. 629-642.
    Source Title
    Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
    DOI
    10.1080/14766825.2019.1694534
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    Remarks

    This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis inJournal of Tourism and Cultural Change on 23/11/2019 available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14766825.2019.1694534

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77004
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This article provides a comparative analysis of localised contests over the reclamation of new islands for resort-style development projects in waters near tourist destinations in Bali and Western Australia. The research focuses on the Tirta Wahana Bali Internasional Resort proposed for a seabed site in Benoa Bay, Bali, and the North Port Quay development proposed for a seabed site off the coast of Fremantle, Western Australia. The investigation finds that proximity plays a common critical role in the shaping of discourses, environmental alliances and planning determinations around the resort-island reclamation projects. Representations of the proposed new islands stimulated local community resistance movements because the projects reflected the utopian desires of their developers to create resort lifestyle communities that were geographically near yet socially far from people already enjoying the coastal waters targeted for reclamation. By comparing discourses around the two projects, we identify how the artful reimagining of environmental and cultural heritage within each of the resistance movements has influenced local politics and created opportunities for bringing Indigenous perspectives into public view to unsettle nationalist and colonial nativist views of lands and waters in tourist areas.

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