Heritage making and migrant subjects in the deindustrialising region of the Latrobe Valley / Alexandra Dellios.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dellios, Alexandra, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in critical heritage studies, 2632-7074.

Cambridge elements. Elements in critical heritage studies, 2632-7074

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Australia--Latrobe Valley (Vic.).

Cultural property.

Historic sites--Australia--Latrobe Valley (Vic.).

Historic sites.

Cultural property--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (119 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

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

Contents

Introduction

1 Theoretical and Conceptual Scope

Heritage Studies and Heritage Practice

Memory Studies and Collective Memory

Emotions and Heritage: Nostalgia

Contested or Dissonant Heritage

Heritage and Recognition, Heritage and Subjectivity

Multiculturalism, Race, and Heritage

Multiculturalism and Indigenous Australia

In What Follows

2 Intimate Histories of Mobility and Labour in the Latrobe Valley: The Single Male Migrant

The Committee and Forming the Park

Locating the Park

Gaining Heritage Grants: Multiculturalism and Cultural Capital

Migration and Walls

Don Di Fabrizio: Biographical Histories of the Latrobe Valley's' Golden Age'

The Statue

The Politics of Multiculturalism: Nostalgia and Class

Contract Labour and the Post-war Immigration Scheme

Migrant Labour and Expansion in the Latrobe Valley and Morwell

Living Ethnicity in the Valley and Post-war Clubs and Communities

Housing, Homes, and Family Life

Conclusions

3 Recognising Coal: De/Industrial Heritage and Migrant Workplaces in Community Narratives

Reading Industrial and Labour Heritage

Plaques: 'The Immigration Story'

The 'Golden Era' of the SECV

Nostalgia and Deindustrialised Working-Class Communities

Working Life and Traumatic Memories of Industry

The 1977 SECV Strike

Migrant Workers and Vulnerability

Asbestos, Air Pollution, and Workplace Health and Safety

Privatisation and Demise, 1990s Onwards

2014 Hazelwood Mine Fire

Demolition of Industrial Structures and Remembering Industrial Pasts

Conclusion

Postscript

Bibliography

Elements in the Series.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Mar 2022).

ISBN:

1-108-90823-3

1-108-92253-8

1-108-91993-6

OCLC:

1308515558