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

Community-initiated migrant heritage harbours the potential to challenge and expand state-sanctioned renderings of multiculturalism.

Alexandra Dellios (Author)

9781108826495, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 March 2022

75 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.21 kg

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.

Introduction
1. Theoretical and Conceptual Scope
2. Intimate Histories of Mobility and Labour in the Latrobe Valley: the Single Male Migrant
3. Recognising Coal: de/industrial heritage and migrant workplaces in community narratives
Postscript.

Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD], Museology & heritage studies [GM]