Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region - of the Latrobe Valle

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.

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra Dellios, Alexandra (Australian National University Dellios, Dellios Alexandra
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781108826495
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82649-5
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Australia, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies