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There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural
approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social
situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been
particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the
emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural
studies'. This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary
research project that is part of that emergence, particularly
focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean
for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and
heritage in small Australian country towns. However, it extends
beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a
range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer
diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here
explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take
and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches,
offering a uniquely diverse but also careful account of life in
country Australia. Yet, in its emphasis on the simultaneous
specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural
communities, this book also outlines a field of inquiry and a set
of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking
about the "rural" in the early twenty-first century. This book will
be valuable reading for students and academics of Geography,
History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and
Sociology, introducing rural cultural studies as a new dynamic and
integrative discipline.
Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores
new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of
conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers
and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including
Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the Northwest Pacific Coast. It
examines cultural "rituals" and objects; the re-enactments of
various events and encounters of exchange, conciliation and
diplomacy that occurred on colonial frontiers between
non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples; commemorations of historic
events; and how the histories of colonial conflict and conciliation
are politicized in nation-building and national identities.
There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural
approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social
situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been
particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the
emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural
studies'. This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary
research project that is part of that emergence, particularly
focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean
for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and
heritage in small Australian country towns. However, it extends
beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a
range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer
diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here
explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take
and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches,
offering a uniquely diverse but also careful account of life in
country Australia. Yet, in its emphasis on the simultaneous
specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural
communities, this book also outlines a field of inquiry and a set
of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking
about the "rural" in the early twenty-first century. This book will
be valuable reading for students and academics of Geography,
History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and
Sociology, introducing rural cultural studies as a new dynamic and
integrative discipline.
Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores
new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of
conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers
and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including
Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the Northwest Pacific Coast. It
examines cultural "rituals" and objects; the re-enactments of
various events and encounters of exchange, conciliation and
diplomacy that occurred on colonial frontiers between
non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples; commemorations of historic
events; and how the histories of colonial conflict and conciliation
are politicized in nation-building and national identities.
"Stirring Australian Speeches" is the definitive collection of
speeches and public addresses from Australian public life.
Politicians, scientists, judges, explorers, artists, the famous and
the infamous, comment on the great issues and figures of their day.
The speakers range from Governor Arthur Phillip to Sir William
Deane, Louisa Lawson to Germaine Greer, Peter Lalor to Pauline
Hanson. The subjects stretch from white settlement to the Mabo
decision, Eureka to Gallipoli, the banning of the Communist Party
to the 2002 bombing in Bali, the art of Sheffield Shield cricket in
the nineteenth century to the state of arts funding in recent
times.
Designing Schools explores the close connections between the design
of school buildings and educational practices throughout the
twentieth century to today. Through international cases studies
that span the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, this volume
examines historical innovations in school architecture and situates
these within changing pedagogical ideas about the 'best' ways to
educate children. It also investigates the challenges posed by new
technologies and the digital age to the design and use of school
places. Set around three interlinked themes - school buildings,
school spaces and school cultures - this book argues that education
is mediated or framed by the spaces in which it takes place, and
that those spaces are in turn influenced by cultural, political and
social concerns about teaching, learning and the child.
Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday
experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds,
are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on
monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young
people constitute up to half the population of any given society,
but their lives are inescapably influenced by the expectations and
decisions of adults. As a result, children's distinct experiences
are frequently subsumed within the broader histories and heritage
of their families and communities. And while adults inevitably play
a prominent role in children's lives, children are also active
creators of their own cultures. As this volume so vividly
demonstrate, the cultural heritage of children is rich and varied,
and highly revealing of past and present attitudes to children and
their work, play, creativity, and human rights. The essays in this
book span the experiences of children from classical Rome to the
present moment, and examine the diverse social and historical
contexts underlying the public representations of childhood in
Britain, Europe, North America, Australia, North Africa and Japan.
Case studies examine the heritage of schools and domestic spaces;
the objects and games of play; the commemoration of child Holocaust
survivors; memorials to Indigenous child-removal under colonial
regimes; children as collectors of objects and as authors of
juvenilia; curatorial practices at museums of childhood; and the
role of children as visitors to historical sites. Until now, the
cultural heritage of children and the representations of childhood
have been largely absent from scholarly discussions of museology,
heritage places and material culture. This volume rectifies that
gap, bringing together international experts in children's
histories and heritage. Aimed at a wide readership of students,
academics, and museum and heritage professionals, Children,
Childhood and Cultural Heritage authoritatively defines the key
issues in this exciting new field.
Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday
experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds,
are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on
monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young
people constitute up to half the population of any given society,
but their lives are inescapably influenced by the expectations and
decisions of adults. As a result, children's distinct experiences
are frequently subsumed within the broader histories and heritage
of their families and communities. And while adults inevitably play
a prominent role in children's lives, children are also active
creators of their own cultures. As this volume so vividly
demonstrate, the cultural heritage of children is rich and varied,
and highly revealing of past and present attitudes to children and
their work, play, creativity, and human rights. The essays in this
book span the experiences of children from classical Rome to the
present moment, and examine the diverse social and historical
contexts underlying the public representations of childhood in
Britain, Europe, North America, Australia, North Africa and Japan.
Case studies examine the heritage of schools and domestic spaces;
the objects and games of play; the commemoration of child Holocaust
survivors; memorials to Indigenous child-removal under colonial
regimes; children as collectors of objects and as authors of
juvenilia; curatorial practices at museums of childhood; and the
role of children as visitors to historical sites. Until now, the
cultural heritage of children and the representations of childhood
have been largely absent from scholarly discussions of museology,
heritage places and material culture. This volume rectifies that
gap, bringing together international experts in children's
histories and heritage. Aimed at a wide readership of students,
academics, and museum and heritage professionals, Children,
Childhood and Cultural Heritage authoritatively defines the key
issues in this exciting new field.
Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and
theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and
Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South'
as an aesthetic, political, geographical and cultural space.
Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines which include literature,
history, urban and cultural geography, politics and anthropology,
the contributors examine crucial issues including:
* defining what 'the South' encompasses
* investigating ideas of space, history, land and landscape
* claiming, naming and possessing land
* national and personal boundaries
* questions of race, gender and nationalism
Designing Schools explores the close connections between the design
of school buildings and educational practices throughout the
twentieth century to today. Through international cases studies
that span the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, this volume
examines historical innovations in school architecture and situates
these within changing pedagogical ideas about the 'best' ways to
educate children. It also investigates the challenges posed by new
technologies and the digital age to the design and use of school
places. Set around three interlinked themes - school buildings,
school spaces and school cultures - this book argues that education
is mediated or framed by the spaces in which it takes place, and
that those spaces are in turn influenced by cultural, political and
social concerns about teaching, learning and the child.
Whether we think of statues, plaques, street-names, practices,
material or intangible forms of remembrance, the language of
collective memory is everywhere, installed in the name of not only
nations, or even empires, but also an international past. The
essays in Sites of International Memory address the notion of a
shared past, and how this idea is promulgated through sites and
commemorative gestures that create or promote cultural memory of
such global issues as wars, genocide, and movements of
cross-national trade and commerce, as well as resistance and
revolution. In doing so, this edited collection asks: Where are the
sites of international memory? What are the elements of such
memories of international pasts, and of internationalism? How and
why have we remembered or forgotten “sites” of international
memory? Which elements of these international pasts are useful in
the present? Some contributors address specific sites and
moments—World War II, liberation movements in India and Ethiopia,
commemorations of genocide—while other pieces concentrate more on
the theoretical, on the idea of cultural memory. UNESCO’s
presence looms large in the volume, as it is the most visible and
iconic international organization devoted to creating critical
heritage studies on a world stage. Formed in the aftermath of World
War II, UNESCO was instrumental in promoting the idea of a
“humanity” that exists beyond national, regional, or cultural
borders or definitions. Since then, UNESCO’s diplomatic and
institutional channels have become the sites at which competing
notions of international, world, and “human” communities have
jostled in conjunction with politically specific understandings of
cultural value and human rights. This volume has been assembled to
investigate sites of international memory that commemorate a past
when it was possible to imagine, identify, and invoke
“international” ideas, institutions, and experiences, in
diverse, historically situated contexts. Contributors:Dominique
Biehl, Kristal Buckley, Roland Burke, Kate Darian-Smith, Sarah C.
Dunstan, David Goodman, Madeleine Herren, Philippa Hetherington,
Rohan Howitt, Alanna O’Malley, Eric Paglia, Glenda Sluga, Sverker
Sörlin, Carolien Stolte, Beatrice Wayne, Ralph Weber, Jay Winter.
This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant
memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first
century. Drawing on rich case studies, it captures the changing
political and cultural dimensions of migration memories as they are
negotiated and commemorated by individuals, communities and the
nation. Remembering Migration is divided into two sections, the
first on oral histories and the second examining the complexity of
migrant heritage, and the sources and genres of memory writing. The
focused and thematic analysis in the book explores how these
histories are re-remembered in private and public spaces, including
museum exhibitions, heritage sites and the media. Written by
leading and emerging scholars, the collected essays explore how
memories of global migration across generations contribute to the
ever-changing social and cultural fabric of Australia and its place
in the world.
This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant
memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first
century. Drawing on rich case studies, it captures the changing
political and cultural dimensions of migration memories as they are
negotiated and commemorated by individuals, communities and the
nation. Remembering Migration is divided into two sections, the
first on oral histories and the second examining the complexity of
migrant heritage, and the sources and genres of memory writing. The
focused and thematic analysis in the book explores how these
histories are re-remembered in private and public spaces, including
museum exhibitions, heritage sites and the media. Written by
leading and emerging scholars, the collected essays explore how
memories of global migration across generations contribute to the
ever-changing social and cultural fabric of Australia and its place
in the world.
What really happened on the Australian home front during the Second
World War? For the people of Melbourne these were years of social
dislocation and increased government interference in all aspects of
daily life. This is the story of their work, leisure, and
relationships, and their fear - for by 1942 the city was pitted
with air raid trenches, and in the half-light of the brownout
Melburnians awaited a Japanese invasion. As women left the home to
replace men in factories and offices, the traditional roles of
mothers and wives was challenged. The presence of thousands of
American soldiers in Melbourne raised new questions about
Australian nationalism and identity. And the 'carnival spirit' of
many on the home front created anxiety about the issues of
drunkenness, gambling and sexuality. The revised edition of this
classic and evocative study of Melbourne in wartime-drawing upon
the memories of men and women who lived through those turbulent
years-illustrates life in wartime Australian cities in a period
when society was responding to the tensions between a restrictive
government urging Austerity measures and new opportunities for
social and sexual freedoms.
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