We are delighted to announce the online launch of our new special issue, Memory Politics of Colonial Heritage in Asia and the Pacific: Conflict, Remembrance, and Peacebuilding, co-edited by Yujie Zhu and Lia Kent (ANU), published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy.

This special issue grew out of a workshop hosted at the ANU as part of an ARC-funded project on memory politics and heritage. It brings together critical reflections on how colonial legacies continue to shape governance, identity, and struggles for justice. Rather than treating colonial heritage as a relic of the past, the collection examines it as a contested and strategic resource, embedded in public policy, urban space, cultural memory, and transnational activism.

Read the editorial introduction:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10286632.2025.2510640?af=R

Contributors

Roslynn Ang • Joan Beaumont • Shu-Mei Huang • Karma Kong • Geoffrey Langford • Chensi Shen • Bryan Viray •Yujie Zhu• Lia Kent

Topics explored include:

• Indigenous memory struggles and erasure
• Postcolonial urban transformation and heritage tourism
• War memory and transnational remembrance
• Intangible cultural heritage and grassroots revitalisation
• The contradictions of state-led multiculturalism and peacebuilding

We hope this collection contributes to global debates on decolonisation, historical justice, and the politics of memory, and offers insight into how contested pasts can become platforms for dialogue, solidarity, and transformative change.

Join us online to hear from contributors and exchange ideas.

Zoom details: 
https://anu.zoom.us/j/89843184530?pwd=vKuMJrH6ra5EbBnbAsUGTKMoRc6vlJ.1