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’.
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Conference report: Public History and Historians at the IFPH 2017
As someone who’s come to public history via memory studies and then oral history, perhaps it’s inevitable that I should … More