A fire that destroyed St. Anne’s Church in Toronto serves as a reminder that cultural legacy needs to be conserved and protected from disaster.
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Shipwrecks and their cargo can be sites of conflict – but also opportunity.
Commerce, culture and heritage mix in rather strange and sometimes unsettling ways in South Africa, especially when the struggle for freedom is commemorated.
This could see different festivals, folklore or traditional tales, Morris dancing and certain skills and crafts protected.
By targeting a restaurant owner who identifies with a specific cuisine, the protester makes that one person responsible for the actions of an entire group or country.
In addition to destroyed buildings, there’s an entire underground world – filled with untold numbers of artifacts, bones and ruins – that are exposed and damaged by the digging of trenches.
Camps are dynamic, culturally significant spaces. We propose the significance of these cultural practices may provide an alternative pathway to protection.
One criticism of current 3D models of archaeological sites is that they are presented devoid of human traces and history.
The Punan Batu is one of the most active nomadic hunter-gatherer groups still existing in the world. They have unique characteristics that are different from other groups in Borneo.
For Australia’s saltwater people, the migration routes of humpback whales represents an important songline
Traditional earthen building cultures are often wrongly described as ‘primitive’ and blamed for their own destruction.
From ill-thought renovation schemes to the latest row over the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles, this is not the first time the British Museum reckons with a custodianship crisis.
For this podcast we caught up with Western Australian Premier Roger Cook, and canvassed issues like the cultural heritage law backdown, and the Voice.
The Victorian Supreme Court has determined the descendants of Ned Kelly’s family are not a distinctive cultural group with the right to protections of their ‘intangible cultural heritage’.
This year, 32 years after Latvia’s independence, the festival boasted over 40,000 participants including almost 3,000 from Latvia’s diaspora.
The Darwin woodland is home to endangered species and important for the Larrakia people. The development approval requires habitat offsets – yet the minister herself has publicly doubted offsets work.
Hụi is a constant, seemingly invisible feature of diasporic life for many Vietnamese-Australians. We’re using it to buy back our cultural heritage.
When a community is involved in how their spaces are developed, these can foster a sense of belonging and make diverse societies more cohesive.
In a survey of 1,600 people from across Mosul, we asked what they thought of the millions of dollars being spent to reconstruct the heritage sites of the city.
Once the capital of the Mughal empire, Old Delhi is now under threat. Geo-information technology can reveal its previous form, function, and context, however, and so help preserve and bring it back to life.
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Honorary Research Fellow, Federation University Australia
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Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Research fellow, University of Leeds
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Principal Lecturer, University of Brighton
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland
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Research fellow, University of Brighton
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UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace, Newcastle University
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Research Manager, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Fellow (Philosophy), Durham University
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Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of Glasgow
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Director Emerita, Public Archaeology Facility and Senior Research Associate, Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York