ABSTRACT
This chapter, in association with Chapters 4 and 5, serves to illuminate how it is that place becomes wounded. In the preceding chapter, the reader has been called upon to witness the extent of place harm across Yanyuwa homelands in Northern Australia. This ethnography of place harm has been recounted in an effort to not only ‘come to know’ of violence in place but to generate ‘faith in the claim to consequence’. The latter is a more profound realisation of place harm, and one that fully activates the role of witness as one that is fully aware of and even disturbed by the traumatic effects of place harm. The following three chapters now serve to explain what it is that disturbs us as witnesses of place violence and does so by diagnosing and examining the very nature of violence enacted against place and manifest in place harm.
