Nervous Landscapes: Race and Space in Australia

Of Other Scapes: Archaeology, Landscape, and Heterotopia in Fascist Sicily

“…A heterotopology of Fascist Sicily therefore seeks out the organic responses, the alternate orderings that resulted from the Fascist attempt to impose a new order. Methodologically, this involves tracing the competing spatial practices employed by groups and individuals in the Sicilian countryside, mapping each stakeholder's attachment to the landscape (Byrne 2003;Byrne and Nugent 2004).…”

The young generations’ conceptualisation of cultural tourism: colonial heritage attractions in South Korea

“…They are actively and subjectively aware of the past and meanings of cultural heritage, rather than merely passive receivers of it (Harvey, 2001;Byrne, 2003;Macdonald, 2006a;Smith, 2006). Cultural heritage has consistently been reconstructed and transformed with reference to people's present experiences and interests (Harvey, 2001).…”

“…Cultural heritage has consistently been reconstructed and transformed with reference to people's present experiences and interests (Harvey, 2001). As the significance or meaning of cultural heritage is simultaneously inherited and transformed drawing on individuals' own living experience (Byrne, 2003;Smith, 2006), identity may not be simply something produced by cultural heritage, but is something actively and continually transformed by people and communities' reinterpretation and reassessment of their past (Harvey, 2001;Smith, 2007).…”

A Chinese shopkeeper on the Atherton Tablelands

“…As Tracey Banivanua Mar, Penelope Edmonds and others have argued, settler society required multiple strategies, discourses and laws to 'colour in' the space of regional Australia. 49 By classifying the spaces in which these exchanges occurred in racial terms, Census-takers racialised what were, in practice, casual commercial encounters. This racialising process was in turn codified in colonial Census archives, drawing a clear line between the mechanisms of colonial governance, designed to marginalise the non-white inhabitants of rural townships, and the everyday shop life of rural Chinese stores.…”