Reproducing temples in Fremantle

Kerr, Thor

doi:10.1080/13527258.2011.576687

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“…Then, in World War II, all undersea cable connections to Australia from Southeast Asia were severed as Japanese Forces occupied the region (Yang, 2010). Despite this break and the slow collapse of British empire, the cultural, commercial and political legacies of its infrastructure in former Indian Ocean colonies can still be identified (Kerr, 2012; Martinez, 2017; Thomas, 2019).…”

Section: Eastern Telegraph Cables: Disrupting and Producing Communitiesmentioning

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Social imaginaries of subsea cables: recovering connections between Broome and Banyuwangi

Kerr

Wahyudi

2021

Media International Australia

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As most data travel through subsea cables, this article investigates social imaginaries of the cable laid in 1889 from Banyuwangi in south-eastern Java to Broome in north-western Australia. Through collaborative fieldwork in Broome and Banyuwangi, radically different representations are identified at either end of the cable. In Broome, the cable telegraph station is memorialized for introducing colonial sophistication to a town where Java is celebrated for facilitating communication with Britain. In Banyuwangi, there is no mention of Broome and little mention of the undersea cable. Instead, there are mythical and haunted representations of a decrepit British Hostel occasionally associated with telegraph operations. Despite some similarities in Indigenous perspectives and entrepreneurial desire to realize tourism income from cable heritage, an ocean-size gulf was identified between the social imaginaries that enabled the cable to be dug up and normalized as a cultural attraction in Broome while remaining buried, almost forgotten, in Banyuwangi.

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Social imaginaries of subsea cables: recovering connections between Broome and Banyuwangi

Kerr

Wahyudi

2021

Media International Australia

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“…The symbolism of this liminality -crossing from sea to land -in Fremantle was critically explored by Thor Kerr (2012), in the context of regenerating narratives of nation-building invoking Jon Stratton (2009), understanding migrants being re-born 'white' as they enter through the Whaler's Tunnel in Fremantle. However, as Kerr points out, there are counter and far more treacherous flows.…”

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Facades of diversity

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Cox

2016

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This article focuses on urban space and heritage. Our aim is 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 Henri 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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“…Poland positioned NPQ as an enduring project that would produce future heritage rather than vandalize local heritage; plausibly, the tourist-attracting, colonial heritage of Fremantle (Kerr, 2012b). The moral position supporting Poland's legacy attempt was constructed around doing the right thing.…”

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Negotiating green space between ecological threats and beloved objects

Kerr

2015

Continuum

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This paper is directed at furthering understandings of the function of space, time and sensory experience in environmental discourse. It does this through an empirical study of the publicity campaigns and counter campaigns around North Port Quay, proposed as a sustainable property development project for coastal waters off Fremantle in Western Australia. The case demonstrates how a proposed ecological improvement project is contested in discursive struggles over the space and time of environmental problems. It shows how representations of an immediate threat to local environment can be more powerful than representations of a model solution to future global ecological crisis. The radical imposition of a futuristic island town by the beach triggered an effective, localized popular movement unified through people's desire to restore their sensual experiences of local environment. This desire linked people's diverse demands for conservation behind a discursive frontier against anyone supporting North Port Quay. Standing for 'our beaches' against the proposed sustainable development not only blocked the project through localized practices of institutional democracy, it also helped transform the institutional political landscape of Fremantle.

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Reproducing temples in Fremantle

Cited by 6 publications

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Social imaginaries of subsea cables: recovering connections between Broome and Banyuwangi

Social imaginaries of subsea cables: recovering connections between Broome and Banyuwangi

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Negotiating green space between ecological threats and beloved objects

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