1st Edition

Geographies of Australian Heritages Loving a Sunburnt Country?

By Roy Jones, Brian J. Shaw Copyright 2007
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Contents: Introduction: geographies of Australian heritages, Roy Jones and Brian J. Shaw; Heritage protection in Australia: the legislative and bureaucratic framework, Graeme Aplin; Australia and world heritage, Graeme Aplin; The changing geographies of Australia's wilderness heritage, C. Michael Hall; Aborigines, bureaucrats and cyclones: the ABC of running an innovative heritage tourism operation, Marion Hercock; Waltzing the heritage icons: 'swagmen', 'squatters' and 'troopers' at North West Cape, Roy Jones, Colin Ingram and Andrew Kingham; Fixed traditions and locked-up heritages: misrepresenting indigeneity, Wendy Shaw; A work in progress: aboriginal people and pastoral cultural heritage in Australia, Nicholas Gill and Alistair Paterson; Lobethal the Valley of Praise: inventing tradition for the purposes of place making in rural South Australia, Matthew W. Rofe and Hilary P.M. Winchester; Perth's Commonwealth Games heritage, whose value at what price?, Catherine Kennewell and Brian J. Shaw; Port, sport and heritage: Fremantle's unholy trinity?, Roy Jones; Places worth keeping, Rosemary Rosario; Reshaping the 'sunburnt country': heritage and cultural politics in contemporary Australia, William S. Logan; Index.

Biography

Roy Jones Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. Brian J. Shaw The University of Western Australia.