Visitor Encounters with the Great Barrier Reef: Aesthetics, Heritage and the Senses

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
	World Heritage values
	New directions in heritage
	The cultural bias and potential of aesthetic value
	Aesthetics as senses and place
	Visitor experience
Part I: Visitor experiences of the Great Barrier Reef
	2 Orientation, wayfinding and cartographic knowledge of the Reef
		Disorientation and danger
		Controlling danger: orientation and mapping
		Science, tourism and navigation
		Visitor traditions of orientation
		In the footsteps of the navigators
		Disorientation
		Orientation: continuity and change
	3 Visitors’ sensuous experiences at the Reef
		Seeing the Reef
		Feeling the Reef
		Reef sounds
		Smelling the Reef
		Tasting the Reef
		Merging senses and movement
	4 Sharing experience of the Reef with the world
		Contact and copy
		The means of capture
		Transmission of experience
		Representing a multi-­sensuous Reef
Part II: Cultural constructions of the Great Barrier Reef
	5 Reef islands as signifiers of paradise
		Australian landscapes of the Great Barrier Reef
		Australian bush as the everyday
		In pursuit of paradise
		The coconut palm as signifier of paradise found
		A tourist gaze for Australian visitors
	6 Controlling the underwater Reef through cultivation of coral gardens
		Cartographic mimesis: control over the other
		Out of control: a return to otherness
		Seeking similitude: coral gardens
		Aquariums as controlled gardens
		Immersion and loss of control
		Coral gardens as imagery
	7 The Great Barrier Reef as hyper-­reality and World Heritage
		The simulacra of a single natural reef
		Hyper-reality at ReefWorld
		Loss of place
		Conservation of the Great Barrier Reef
		World Heritage listing
		Postscript
Index