Geographies of Australian Heritages (Heritage, Culture and Identity)

✍ Scribed by Roy Jones, Brian J. Shaw

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In any settler and/or postcolonial society, heritage is a complex and contested topic that involves indigenous, imperial and other migrant components. In Australia, this situation is compounded by the unique characteristics of the country's natural environment, the considerable diversity of its migrant intake and the demographic and technological imbalances between its indigenous and settler populations. The contributors to this proposed volume are predominantly geographers by training, and, while younger scholars are represented, in many cases they are long established expert authorities, internationally recognised within their respective fields. Their interests span the full range of the discipline and their practical experience extends through the areas of tourism, planning, heritage management, environmental studies and local government. The aim of this book is to demonstrate, through a representative set of case studies from across the country's states and capital cities, the range and diversity of heritage issues currently confronting Australia and the value of geographical approaches in their description, analysis and, possibly, resolution.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 16
1 Introduction: Geographies of Australian Heritages......Page 18
2 Heritage Protection in Australia: The Legislative and Bureaucratic Framework......Page 26
3 Australia and World Heritage......Page 42
4 The Changing Geographies of Australia’s Wilderness Heritage......Page 62
5 Aborigines, Bureaucrats and Cyclones: The ABC of Running an Innovative Heritage Tourism Operation......Page 76
6 Waltzing the Heritage Icons: ‘Swagmen’, ‘Squatters’ and ‘Troopers’ at North West Cape and Ningaloo Reef......Page 96
7 Fixed Traditions and Locked-up Heritages: Misrepresenting Indigeneity......Page 112
8 A Work in Progress: Aboriginal People and Pastoral Cultural Heritage in Australia......Page 130
9 Lobethal the Valley of Praise: Inventing Tradition for the Purposes of Place Making in Rural South Australia......Page 150
10 Perth’s Commonwealth Games Heritage: Whose Value at What Price?......Page 168
11 Port, Sport and Heritage: Fremantle’s Unholy Trinity?......Page 186
12 Places Worth Keeping......Page 204
13 Reshaping the ‘Sunburnt Country’: Heritage and Cultural Politics in Contemporary Australia......Page 224
C......Page 242
G......Page 243
I......Page 244
N......Page 245
S......Page 246
W......Page 247
Y......Page 248