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Alternative Economies of Heritage is a groundbreaking edited volume that critically evaluates how the 'work' of heritage can be reimagined, as a multifarious field of thought and action, to resist the reductive economies of colonial capitalism.
List of contents
1. Transformative Heritage Economies: Reimagining Cultural Value, Exchange and Inheritance;
Part 1 - Transforming Heritage Subjects; 2. Ancestors, Not Objects; 3. The Currency of Heritage Citizenship in Urban Indonesia; 4. Pencilled Calculations; 5. Connecting our Stories: Writing an Indigenous Studies Textbook; 6. Re-imagining heritage economies at Cape Town's Adderley Street flower market; 7. Valuing Personal Narratives as Common Heritage: Memory Practices of Museum of the Person;
Part 2 - Rethinking Heritage Resources; 8. It's the Economy, Stupid! Connecting Heritage Value, Economics and the Everyday; 9. Making Heritage through Seed Stories; 10. Refiguring Digitization: Experiments in Heritage for a Shared Future; 11. Heritage Entrepreneurship: Empowering the 'Forgotten Generation'; 12. Nurturing Heritage in Community Gardens: Cultivating Tastes for the Future; 13. The Value of Post-apartheid Archives: Heritage Economies of South African Archives in the Wake of apartheid;
Part 3 - Processes of Possibility; 14. Do-It-Yourself Heritage: Collective vacant house renovation in Japan; 15. Taxila's Cultural Legacy: Transactions between Ancient Civilizations and Modern Communities in a Gandhara City in Pakistan; 16. Diverse Mapuche Landscapes: Co-creating Coastal and Mountain Economies of Digital Heritage; 17. Mapping community economies as a living heritage practice; 18. Thinking With Shells: Digital Culturescapes Decolonising Digital Heritage;19. Loving Work: Surviving, Gathering and Dreaming for Indigenous Futures; 20. The Economy of the Night: Fragments of Darlinghurst's Queer Heritage
About the author
Denise Thwaites is a curator, writer and researcher specialising in contemporary cultural economies, who is currently Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Canberra. Denise was awarded her PhD in Aesthetics through the University of New South Wales (Australia) and l'Université Paris 8, Vincennes - Saint-Denis (France), before joining UNSW iCinema Research Centre as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research harnesses poetic, experimental and collaborative modes of working to destabilise political, cultural and economic imaginaries.
Bethaney Turner is a researcher who explores the multispecies relationships between people, place and the environment, concentrating on how best to build the resilience and capacity of communities to enact more sustainable futures in a time of climate change. She has particular expertise in local food systems (including community food production, food rescue and food waste management) and understanding the impacts of everyday food interactions on human and planetary health and well-being. She works as an Associate Professor in Global Studies at the University of Canberra.
Tracy Ireland is an archaeologist and community-focused heritage practitioner and academic, and Professor of Cultural Heritage at the University of Canberra. Tracy has published widely on heritage management and heritage studies, particularly in areas such as the social value of heritage, heritage ethics, Indigenous historic heritage and archaeological sites conservation.
Summary
Alternative Economies of Heritage is a groundbreaking edited volume that critically evaluates how the ‘work’ of heritage can be reimagined, as a multifarious field of thought and action, to resist the reductive economies of colonial capitalism.
