Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-82649-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 75 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 198 g

Reihe: Elements in Critical Heritage Studies

This Element argues that community-initiated migrant heritage harbours the potential to challenge and expand state-sanctioned renderings of multiculturalism in liberal nation-states. In this search for alternative readings, community-initiated migrant heritage is positioned as a grassroots challenge to positivist state-multiculturalism. It can do this if we adopt the migrant perspective, a diasporic perspective of 'settlement' that is always unfinished, non-static, and non-essentialist. As mobile subjects, either once or many times over - a subject position arrived at through acts of mobility, sometimes spawned by violence or structural inequality, which can reverberate throughout subsequent generations - the migrant subject position compels us to look both forwards and backwards in time and place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dellios, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Theoretical and Conceptual Scope; 2. Intimate Histories of Mobility and Labour in the Latrobe Valley: the Single Male Migrant; 3. Recognising Coal: de/industrial heritage and migrant workplaces in community narratives; Postscript.