Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley by Alexandra Dellios

Winner of the Community Diversity Award Category of the Victorian Community History Awards 

This Element argues that community-initiated migrant heritage harbours the potential to challenge and expand state-sanctioned renderings of multiculturalism in liberal nation-states. In this search for alternative readings, community-initiated migrant heritage is positioned as a grassroots challenge to positivist state-multiculturalism. It can do this if we adopt the migrant perspective, a diasporic perspective of ‘settlement’ that is always unfinished, non-static, and non-essentialist. As mobile subjects, either once or many times over – a subject position arrived at through acts of mobility, sometimes spawned by violence or structural inequality, which can reverberate throughout subsequent generations – the migrant subject position compels us to look both forwards and backwards in time and place.

This book is part of the  Elements in Critical Heritage Studies series.  This series focuses on the recently established fields of Critical Heritage Studies. Interdisciplinary in character, it brings together contributions from experts working in a range of fields, including cultural management, anthropology, archaeology, politics, and law. The series will include volumes that demonstrate the impact of contemporary theoretical discourse on heritage found throughout the world, raising awareness of the acute relevance of critically analysing and understanding the way heritage is used today to form new futures.

Paperback, 75pp, 2022

ISBN: 9781108826495

$28.95

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