Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past
Author/editor: Yujie Zhu; Christina Maags
Year published: 2020
Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past studies the impact of heritage policies and discourses on the Chinese state and Chinese society. It sheds light on the way Chinese heritage policies have transformed the narratives and cultural practices of the past to serve the interests of the…
Migrant, Multicultural and Diasporic Heritage: Beyond and Between Borders
Author/editor: Alexandra Dellios and Eureka Henrich
Year published: 2020
Migrant, Multicultural and Diasporic Heritage explores the role heritage has played in representing, contesting and negotiating the history and politics of ethnic, migrant, multicultural, diasporic or ‘other’ heritages in, within, between and beyond nations and national boundaries. …
The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation
Author/editor: Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown, Honor Keeler
Year published: 2020
This volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous repatriation practitioners and researchers to provide the reader with an international overview of the removal and return of Ancestral Remains. The Ancestral Remains of Indigenous peoples are today housed in museums and other collecting…
Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Histories
Author/editor: Alexandra Dellios
Year published: 2019
This book revisits Australian histories of refugee arrivals and settlement – with a particular focus on family and family life. It brings together new empirical research, and methodologies in memory and oral history, to offer multilayered histories of people seeking refuge in the 20th century.…
Piksa Inap Tok
Author/editor: Dr Anna Edmundson
Year published: 2019
Piksa Inap Tok (Pictures can talk), Contemporary Art from Papua New Guinea
Politics of Scale, New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies
Author/editor: Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Yujie Zhu and Suzie Thomas
Year published: 2019
Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi-and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage,…
Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present
Author/editor: Laurajane Smith, Margaret Wetherell and Gary Campbell
Year published: 2018
Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present is a response to debates in the humanities and social sciences about the use of emotion. This timely and unique book explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the past, particularly in contexts…
Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China
Author/editor: Yujie Zhu
Year published: 2018
The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard, accompanied, watched and photographed the whole way by tourists, who have bought tickets for the privilege. The traditional wedding…
Safeguarding Intangible Heritage
Author/editor: Natsuko Akagawa and Laurajane Smith
Year published: 2018
The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage came into force in 2006, framing the international and national practices and policies associated with intangible cultural heritage. This volume critically and reflexively examines these practices and policies, providing…
Histories of controversy : Bonegilla Migrant Centre
Author/editor: Alexandra Dellios
Year published: 2017
Bonegilla was a point of reception and temporary accommodation for approximately 320,000 post-war refugees and assisted migrants to Australia from 1947 to 1971. Its function was integral to the post-war immigration scheme, something officially lauded as an economic and cultural success. However,…