Amanda Kearney is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

• Introduction PART I Meeting place in the epistemological gap 1 Context and cultural wounding: the relational sphere of life in place PART II Witnessing place violence and the intent to harm 2 An ethnography of place harm PART III Diagnosing place harm 3 Destruction and designifi cation 4 Social disorder: toponymic erasure and the making of harmful places5 Elemental erasure and ecological declinePART IV Reinstating kinship and healing place6 Kincentric ecology and seeking an axiological return

Amanda Kearney is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

• Introduction PART I Meeting place in the epistemological gap 1 Context and cultural wounding: the relational sphere of life in place PART II Witnessing place violence and the intent to harm 2 An ethnography of place harm PART III Diagnosing place harm 3 Destruction and designifi cation 4 Social disorder: toponymic erasure and the making of harmful places5 Elemental erasure and ecological declinePART IV Reinstating kinship and healing place6 Kincentric ecology and seeking an axiological return

Amanda Kearney is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

• Introduction PART I Meeting place in the epistemological gap 1 Context and cultural wounding: the relational sphere of life in place PART II Witnessing place violence and the intent to harm 2 An ethnography of place harm PART III Diagnosing place harm 3 Destruction and designifi cation 4 Social disorder: toponymic erasure and the making of harmful places5 Elemental erasure and ecological declinePART IV Reinstating kinship and healing place6 Kincentric ecology and seeking an axiological return