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Indigenous persistence and entitlement: Noongar occupations in central Perth, 1988-1989 and 2012

8/8/2016

 
This article in The Journal of Historical Geography was written over a couple of years in collaboration with Dr Shaphan Cox, Dr Christina Birdsall-Jones, Professor Roy Jones and Professor Steve Mickler. The article examines the concept of occupations in relation to gatherings of Noongar people in 1988-1989 and in 2012 at high-profile riverside sites near the centre of Perth, Western Australia.  

Facades of Diversity

1/8/2016

 
This article in the Thesis Eleven journal of critical theory and historical sociology was written in collaboration with Dr Susan Leong and Dr Shaphan Cox. The article focuses on urban space and heritage. Our aim was to understand how ordinary streets in Perth respond to urban change and how much these urban streets represent Western Australia’s heritage. The intention is to eschew the dominant branding of WA as Australia’s mining state and shift the spotlight so that in addition to the economic and material, light is also shed on the socio-cultural in the everyday and the vernacular. This project uses Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis approach to explore a contrapuntal reading of heritage that disrupts the deserving, dominant and fixed histories of High Road in Willetton and High Street in Fremantle. Amid the tides of migration, commerce, and cultures, heritage facades on High Street Fremantle appear singular and fixed, whereas multiple cultures have been extracted for sale on High Road. Superficially High Road seems diverse but the overarching impulse across both sites is commerce—‘Business as usual’ reigns.

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