The Re-Invention of the Goori Cultural Landscape: Telling the Country: Mapping Two Pockets

This article analyzes the authors' map of the Aboriginal geography of St Lucia and Long Pocket, two riverine suburbs of Brisbane, upstream of the central business district, and containing two of the University of Queensland's campuses. The map is a prism into the wider "Goori" Aboriginal society of the early 1800s. The map was generated by two Aboriginal scholars and an anthropologist using a practice-based ontological approach and by historians using early textual sources. The map juxtaposes a geopolitical edge against contemporary metropolitan mapping, providing a foundation of First Nations geography to underlie and undermine the power of colonial and postcolonial cartography.