Original 'secret spot' on the edge of the desert: negotiations and contestations of place at Cactus Beach SA
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2025
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Norman, J.
Potter, E.
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Annals of Leisure Research, online, 2025; online:1-7
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Cactus Beach, on the traditional lands of the Wirangu, Mirning, Kokatha peoples and home to descendants of Pitjantjatjara Anangu on the Far West Coast of South Australia, is a complex and fragile coastal ecology. It is also a mecca for the globally mobile surf community, who have surfed and camped here since the 1950s. This has resulted in contestations over place involving modes of exclusion in the name of environmental care and protection. These include narrative practices that assert possession through stories of frontierism and origins that illuminate the dominance of settler colonial ontology in ongoing place-making in Cactus Beach. This paper will explore this interface of interests played out in Cactus' recent history as surfing secret, tourist icon and threatened environment, and think through this interface otherwise, through the frame of relational ontology that disrupts colonial paradigms and imagines other possibilities for place.
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Copyright 2025 The Authors. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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