Reflections on researching the heritage making practices of Australia's migrant communities
They are motivated by a desire to publicly remember the trials of their mothers, single working migrant women. Accordingly, many are also motivated by a sense of exclusion and injustice. However, not all the stories they voice are negative, although they do have the potential to challenge existing notions of post-war migrant ‘welcome’.
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’.
July 12 was another emotional night of history telling and listening. I was afforded the opportunity to speak at Museo…
On Thursday night I had the honour of presenting a paper in front of an engaged crowd at the Greek…
Below is a short extract from my upcoming book Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre (available for pre-order now). Each chapter addresses…
As someone who’s come to public history via memory studies and then oral history, perhaps it’s inevitable that I should…
