Storytelling

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Margaret Somerville at Monash University writes that “changing our relationship to places means changing the stories we tell about places”. I wish changing place is that simple, it is more, but engaging with the myths and stories already written - already told - about place will tell much about human relationships to place and how humans can be tied to places in the world, as a subjective world. World-making is related to word-making.

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