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This book presents new ways of understanding heritage and heritage work. It develops and addresses the ways in which physical processes of creation, maintenance and decay are entangled with cultural and political processes.
List of contents
Introduction. Heritage, movement, and the care of precious thingsTod Jones1. Making bivouacs, sustaining heritage: how heritage is movement in configuration with an environmentTod Jones2. A response to skate heritageTod Jones3. Why heritage is movement in configuration with an environment. A framework for heritage based on flows rather than objectsTod Jones4. Scale and World Heritage on the Ningaloo Coast Roy Jones and Michael Hughes5. Residents and artefacts Adrian Perkasa6. Sites: reconstruction and resident relationships with Majapahit heritage Adrian Perkasa7. Settler colonial cultural landscapes: Badimia experiences of advocating for their sovereignty, community and Country Carol Dowling8. How social media changes heritage (and everything else)Transpiosa Riomandha and Hairus Salim9. Bol Brutu visits Cirebon. Reminiscences of a blusukan Transpiosa Riomandha, translated by Tod Jones10. Living cultures and heritage processes: heritagisation and batikTod JonesConclusionTod JonesAppendix 1: Information on research methods used in Heritage is movement
About the author
Tod Jones is an Associate Professor in Geography in the School of Design and Built Environment, Curtin University. He has worked on cultural policy and heritage issues in Indonesia and Australia since 1999. His current research brings cultural and political geography concepts and tools in dialogue with heritage concepts and frameworks to issues of heritage management. He has worked with Aboriginal communities across Western Australia on community cultural development initiatives, and with heritage groups in Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. He has published two books:
Culture, power and authoritarianism in the Indonesian state (2013) and a co-authored collection with Ali Mozaffari,
Heritage movements in Asia (2020). He has published articles in the leading heritage studies journals,
International Journal of Heritage Studies,
Heritage and Society, and
International Journal of Cultural Policy. Altogether he has been leading author or a contributor on 29 peer-reviewed journal articles and 11 book chapters. His research on Indonesian cultural policy was debated in the Indonesian parliament and influenced the new national cultural policy legislation.
