Keir Reeves

Colonial heritage and tourism: ethnic landscape perspectives

The revival of colonial heritage is a particular feature of former British and French colonies in Pacific and Asian settings. This is exemplified by the redevelopment and rejuvenation of what were exclusive ‘comfort zones’ for the ‘colonial classes’ and is central to the consumption of colonial nostalgia via tourism. The political and semiotic implications of renewing colonial era constructions for tourism are manifold. The key argument is that this can re-politicise what was hitherto benign colonial heritages. Furthermore, this can aggravate tensions within what are already fragile ethnic landscapes. This is especially so when the setting is one where the various publics have been steeped in economic, cultural and sociopolitical changes, and where political and civil upheavals are recent occurrences. If the restoration of colonial heritage for tourism (in this case for heritage hotels) in former colonies is conducted oblivious to the legacies and meanings instilled in such heritages, the exacerbation of social and political sensitivities is likely.

Aboriginal Rules: The Black History of Australian Football

This paper is interested in the significance of Australian football to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia. In particular, this paper is interested in the cultural power of football and how it has foregrounded the struggle and highlighted the contribution that Indigenous people have made to the national football code of Australia. This paper also discusses key moments in Indigenous football history in Australia. It questions further that a greater understanding of this contribution needs to be more fully explored from a national perspective in order to appreciate Indigenous peoples’ contribution to the sport not just in elite competitions but also at a community and grass roots level.

Broken Hill: rethinking the significance of the material culture and intangible heritage of the Australian labour movement

Taking Broken Hill as an exemplar of Australian, indeed global, labour heritage, this article, analyses the survival of labour heritage and union practices in the town that continues to the present. It examines the interpretation of successive layers of industrial and labour history as a means of revealing a culturally dynamic and enduring community with close connections to its built heritage. The authors challenge the application of two-dimensional and static models of heritage interpretations too often applied to contested heritage sites. The authors argue that Broken Hill is a community whose determined social and industrial character and distinct built environment has transcended changing patterns of investment and economic decline.

Sojourning and Settling: Locating Chinese Australian History

Abstract During the past thirty years, our understanding of the history of Chinese Australians has been remade. Today, as a growing community of researchers delves into the archives, new insights into the political, economic and cultural dimensions of Chinese Australian experiences are emerging. The tired, one-dimensional depictions of the sojourning celestial digger have, at last, given way to a more complex view. Historians of the Chinese in Australia have been both instigators and beneficiaries of a move towards a more inclusive, multicultural approach to Australian history within the academy and beyond. They have played an important role in challenging the often peripheral status of specialised ethnic and multicultural studies, or ‘ethno-histories’, within Australian historiography. At the same time, their efforts to better understand the history of the Chinese in Australia have provided a ‘valuable counterpart’ to ongoing research into Australias relations with Asia.1 1Hsu-Ming Teo, ‘Multiculturalism and the Problem of Multicultural Histories: An Overview of Ethnic Historiography’, in Cultural History in Australia, eds., Richard White and Hsu-Ming Teo (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2003), 146; For the peripheral status of ethno-history in Australia into the 1990s see Barry York, Ethno-Historical Studies in a Multicultural Australia (Canberra: Centre for Immigration & Multicultural Studies, 1996), 27.

Dragon Tails: Re-interpreting Chinese Australian History

IN 1984, NOTED historian Jennifer Cushman challenged researchers to move beyond the prevalent one-dimensional approach to understanding the Chinese presence in Australia, which primarily examined the nation’s colonialist attitudes towards the Chinese. Similarly, writing about Chinese families and exclusion in the United States, Adam McKeown argued in 1999 that the field needs ‘to interrogate more carefully the interactions of the Chinese with [the racist exclusion laws]’, and ‘develop a picture of migration that extends beyond American political and moral boundaries’. Ann Curthoys also emphasised this need for a broader vision of migratory flows, and ended her 2002 Australian Historical Studies essay with this pressing question: ‘Can historians, in their search for transnational histories and international audiences, still speak strongly and engagingly to their local national audience?’ Given that Asian Australian research is increasingly in dialogue with other bodies of diasporic study*Asian American Studies in particular*this special issue is a timely step towards answering Curthoys’ query. It develops on ideas from previous projects, including After the Rush (2004), a special issue of Journal of Australian Colonial History (2004; guest-edited by Alan Mayne), and the 2001 conference at the Australian National University titled ‘‘The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions’’. While acknowledging an intellectual debt to a number of researchers in the area, this issue breaks new

Understanding the importance and context of vilification

This paper looks at the context with which the research for the collection came out of. It draws on recent examples in the media and football and connects that up to the examples in the past particularly the incidents in the AFL that involved Nicky Winmar in 1993 and Michael Long in 1995 and the introduction of Rule 35. This paper sets the scene from which the rest of the collection positions itself.

Codes Combined: managing expectations and policy responses to racism in sport

This article is a transnational comparative discussion that interrogates responses, particularly formal policy frameworks, to addressing racial vilification in sport. Themes interrogated include racism in sport, sport as an agent for social change, diversity in sport, sport and community harmony, sport and ethnicity, and sport and education. Emphasis is placed on the importance of education as a plank in formal policy responses to addressing on- and off-field racism in elite sport. The article also examines how education is important in enabling greater social participation among groups. National and transnational discussions about respective footballing codes are located within a broader international context by way of comparison with other elite sports.

Roots tourism: blackbirding and the South Sea Islander diaspora.

Roots tourism and diaspora travel are inextricably aligned and embody more than just another avenue for the expansion of tourism. This article, using Vanuatu as the context, argues that roots tourism has far broader implications for diaspora, especially in so far as geopolitical relationships between colonial powers and their former outposts are concerned. The return sojourns of Australias South Sea Islander diaspora are used in this article to highlight the phenomenon of roots tourism. The circumstances surrounding the arrival of the first islanders during what became known as the blackbirding era, beginning in the 1860s through to the early 1900s, is subject to contestation as to whether this constituted free or forced labor. Such narratives are common among diaspora when evaluating the legacy of colonialism, particularly when the specter of exploitation and mistreatment resonates. Roots tourism and the travel of diaspora are aimed at reconciling the ensuing questions of identity, culture, and place. This article argues that roots tourism offers personal relief and restitution as well as contributes to broader sociopolitical advancement between the descendants of the colonized and present-day institutions.

Cultural landscape and goldfield heritage: towards a land management framework for the historic south-west Pacific gold mining landscapes

Abstract This article investigates how cultural landscapes (especially the potentially limiting organically evolved landscape) can be used as a research framework to evaluate historical mining heritage sites in Australia and New Zealand. We argue that when mining heritage sites are read as evolved organic landscapes and linked to the surrounding forested and hedged farmland, the disruptive aspects of mining are masked. Cultural landscape is now a separate listing for World Heritage sites and includes associative and designed landscape as well as those that have evolved organically. These usages have rarely been scrutinized with care. We analyse how mid-nineteenth century goldmining sites can be best thematically interpreted and understood for their heritage, indeed World Heritage, significance and, where appropriate, developed for their sustainable heritage tourism potential. Drawing on a number of research disciplines, a schematic framework is offered for interpreting and classifying these new world cultural landscapes based upon analysis of gold-rush heritage sites throughout the Trans-Tasman world. We evaluate and apply this framework to place-based case studies in Victoria, Australia and Otago, New Zealand.

Managing expectations and policy responses to racism in sport : codes combined

1. Editorial: Codes combined Keir Reeves, Megan Ponsford and Sean Gorman 2. Codes Combined: managing expectations and policy responses to racism in sport Keir Reeves, Megan Ponsford and Sean Gorman 3. Discrimination cases in grass-roots sport: comparing Australian and English experiences Paul Oliver and Jim Lusted 4. To play Papunya: the problematic interface between a remote Aboriginal community and the organization of Australian Football in Central Australia Barry Judd and Tim Butcher 5. Disciplinary provisions for hate speech in football: comparative perspectives Simon Gardiner 6. Frank and Bhupinder: the odd couple of Indian cricket Megan Ponsford 7. When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League Daniel Burdsey and Sean Gorman 8. Sectarianism, anti-sectarianism and Scottish football Joseph M. Bradley 9. Where are all the Koorie football players? The AFL and the invisible presence of Indigenous Victorians Jess Coyle 10. Safeguarding in sport Anthony Hedges