In this article, we explore the notion of legacy through the ways graziers in Outback Queensland, Australia, draw on material, narrative, and embodied traces of past ‘events’ to emplot their lives during times of uncertainty. Through an ethnography of pastoral work and storytelling on stations, or ranches, we show how settler‐colonial narratives of the frontier and legacy circulate as affective forces in pastoralists' daily lives and become embodied through labour. We argue that pastoral families respond to both the failure of modernist grand narratives and more personal events by renegotiating stories of the frontier to legitimate their ongoing presence in Outback Australia and give meaning to their lives. While these narratives are existentially useful for pastoralists, we argue that they remain tied to exclusionary and unsustainable structures and ideologies that prevent pastoralists from adjusting to contemporary crises.

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有血有肉的边疆叙事：追踪澳大利亚昆士兰内陆地区的遗产、劳动力和合法性

在本文中，我们通过澳大利亚昆士兰州内陆的牧场主利用过去“事件”的材料、叙述和具体痕迹来规划他们在不确定时期的生活的方式来探讨遗产的概念。通过对牧区工作的民族志和车站或牧场的故事讲述，我们展示了关于边疆和遗产的定居者殖民叙事如何作为牧民日常生活中的情感力量传播，并通过劳动体现出来。我们认为，牧民家庭通过重新协商边疆故事来应对现代主义宏大叙事的失败和更多个人事件，以合法化他们在澳大利亚内陆地区的持续存在并赋予他们的生活意义。虽然这些叙述对牧民来说是有用的，但我们认为它们仍然与排斥性和不可持续的结构和意识形态联系在一起，阻碍牧民适应当代危机。