This blog went on the backburner in 2020, like most things. But some of the research (or, at least, the … More
Category: research reflections
IWD talk: The limits of the archive – revisiting histories of multiculturalism and women’s voices
In an effort to trick myself into being (feeling?) ‘productive’, and thus keep that all-pervading panic and fear at bay, … More
Remembering Migrant Rights Activism
But I wanted to access community memories. How do implicated community groups remember this period of ‘migrant rights activism’ and the prominent activists associated with the movement?
Indigenous and Migrant Heritage Places: ‘Immigration Park Australia’ design
In a 2002 article for the Journal of Intercultural Studies, Joseph Pugliese argued that migrant communities, working within heritage legislation, … More
Challenging State Multiculturalism: industrial heritage, migrant labour and Gippsland Immigration Park
This ‘phantasmatic diversity’, this multiculturalism ‘for all of us’, dissuades recognition of diversity as structural difference with historical antecedents… While the political struggles over migrant rights aren’t at the centre of Gippsland Immigration Park, the local history of the coal industry and its implications for working life and mobility, are. Here, the Park challenges celebratory state multiculturalism and histories of industrial progress.
That photo: the migrants?
I use this photo a lot, the one that features in the ‘banner’ for this blog and on my Twitter … More
Europeana Migration Collection and Australian infrastructure
Large, well-funded digital archives provide the means to facilitate not only the collection and preservation of migrant-related collections, but also their promotion and uptake by researchers and other members of the public. This requires a coordinated effort on the part of large institutions, like the National Library of Australia—and I would argue, given the topic is migration, it calls for transnational collaboration. Enter: Europeana Migration Collection, a new initiative as part of the Europeana digital archive.
Community Consultations, Heritage Practice, and Migration Histories – Heritage Victoria 2011
for cohorts who were denied the opportunity to openly express othernesss (beyond trivial renditions of ethnicity), it’s not unexpected that their ‘internal worlds’, rather than clearly identified public spaces, should be richer and unarchived.
Making Migrant Heritage – What is it?
But what is ‘Making Migrant Heritage’? The rationale for the project grew out of a concern that too little scholarly attention had been paid to how ‘subaltern’ publics, including the ‘migrants’ who are the subject of many exhibitions and commemorations, actively create and publicise their own ‘heritage’.
