June to August was spent researching in Sydney—in the State Library of NSW, and in the homes and clubhouses of … More
Tag: multiculturalism
Published: “Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley”
In March 2007, in the small deindustrialising town of Morwell in Australia’s south-east, a local group with a post-WWII migrant … More
Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley
This blog went on the backburner in 2020, like most things. But some of the research (or, at least, the … More
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?
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.
Living Transcultural Spaces and Gippsland Immigration Park research
I’m in the middle of my first full teaching semester at ANU. And while I’m loving teaching the course ‘Introduction … More