Professor Denis Byrne
Professor,
Institute for Culture and Society
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD Australian National University
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Institute for Culture and Society
Contact
| Email: | D.Byrne@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | n/a |
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| Location: | EM.G.23 Parramatta |
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Publications
Books
- Byrne, D. (2022), 'The Heritage Corridor: A Transnational Approach to the Heritage of Chinese Migration', : Routledge 9780367543150.
- Byrne, D. (2014), 'Counterheritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage Conservation in Asia', : Routledge 9780415744065.
- Byrne, D. (2007), 'Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia', : AltaMira Press 9780759110175.
- Byrne, D. and Nugent, M. (2004), 'Mapping Attachment: a Spatial Approach to Aboriginal Post-Contact Heritage', : Dept. of Environment and Conservation (NSW) 1741370523.
Chapters in Books
- Byrne, D. (2021), 'The view from somewhere : liquid, geologic, and queer bodies', After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics, Routledge 9780367190460.
- Byrne, D. (2020), 'Reclamation legacies', Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene, Open Humanities Press 9781785420870.
- Byrne, D. (2019), 'Under a volcano : a journey through ruin and regeneration in Bali', Affective Geographies of Transformation, Exploration and Adventure: Rethinking Frontiers, Routledge 9781138701120.
- Byrne, D. (2019), 'Reclaiming landscape : coastal reclamations before and during the Anthropocene', Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies, Routledge 9781138720312.
- Byrne, D. (2019), 'The place of the migrant : heritage and ethics in the transnational space of a Sydney park', Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations, Routledge 9781138788213.
- Byrne, D. (2017), 'Encountering migration heritage in a national park', Heritage in Action: Making the Past in the Present, Springer 9783319428680.
- Byrne, D. (2017), 'Museums, religious objects, and the flourishing realm of the supernatural in modern Asia', Religion in Museums: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Bloomsbury Academic 9781474255523.
- Byrne, D. and Ween, G. (2015), 'Bridging cultural and natural heritage', Global Heritage: a Reader, Wiley-Blackwell 9781118768860.
- Byrne, D. (2014), 'Counter-mapping and migrancy on the Georges River', Who Needs Experts? Counter-mapping Cultural Heritage, Ashgate 9781409439349.
- Byrne, D. (2014), 'Shalimar', Object Stories: Artifacts and Archaeologists, Left Coast Press 9781611323832.
- Byrne, D. (2014), 'Affect and empathy : thinking about the power of material things to move visitors', Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children, Australian Scholarly Publishing 9781925003789.
- Byrne, D. (2013), 'Gateway and garden : a kind of tourism in Bali', Heritage Tourism: Place, Encounter, Engagement, Routledge 9780415532648.
- Byrne, D. (2013), 'Days in Hong Kong, May 2011', Reclaiming Archaeology: Beyond the Tropes of Modernity, Routledge 9780415673921.
- Byrne, D. (2013), 'The WCPA's natural sacred sites taskforce : a critique of conservation biology's view of popular religion', Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage: Views from the Asia-Pacific Region, ANU Press 9781922144041.
- Byrne, D., Brockwell, S. and O'Connor, S. (2013), 'Introduction : engaging culture and nature', Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage: Views from the Asia-Pacific Region, ANU Press 9781922144041.
- Byrne, D. (2013), 'Difference', The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World, Oxford University Press 9780199602001.
- Byrne, D. (2012), 'Anti-superstition : campaigns against popular religion and its heritage in Asia', Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia, Routledge 9780415600453.
- Byrne, D. (2011), 'Thinking about popular religion and heritage', Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia: Preservation, Development, and Neglect, Anthem Press 9780857283894.
- Byrne, D. (2010), 'The enchanted earth : numinous sacred sites', Sacred Natural Sites : Conserving Nature and Culture, Earthscan 9781849711661.
- Byrne, D. (2010), 'Nervous landscapes : race and space in Australia', Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity, Palgrave 9780230221796.
- Byrne, D. (2009), 'A critique of unfeeling heritage', Intangible Heritage, Routledge 9780415473972.
- Goodall, H., Wearing, S., Byrne, D. and Cadzow, A. (2009), 'Fishing the Georges River : cultural diversity and urban environments', Everyday Multiculturalism, Palgrave Macmillan 9780230210370.
- Byrne, D. (2009), 'Archaeology and the fortress of rationality', Cosmopolitan Archaeologies, Duke University Press 9780822344322.
- Byrne, D. (2008), 'Heritage as social action', The Heritage Reader, Routledge 9780415372862.
- Byrne, D. (2008), 'Counter-mapping in the archaelogical landscape', Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, Left Coast Press 9781598742947.
Journal Articles
- Byrne, D. (2023), 'The migration heritage corridor : transnationalism, modernity and race', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol 29, no 4 , pp 329 - 345.
- Byrne, D. (2020), 'Divinely significant : towards a postsecular approach to the materiality of popular religion in Asia', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol 26, no 9 , pp 857 - 873.
- Byrne, D. (2020), 'Dream houses in China : migrant-built houses in Zhongshan County (1890s-1940s) as transnationally "distributed" entities', Fabrications, vol 30, no 2 , pp 176 - 201.
- Byrne, D. (2019), 'Prospects for a postsecular heritage practice : convergences between posthumanism and popular religious practice in Asia', Religions, vol 10, no 7 .
- Byrne, D. (2018), 'Time on the waterline : coastal reclamations and seawalls in Sydney and Japan', Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, vol 5, no 1 , pp 53 - 65.
- Byrne, D. (2017), 'Remembering the Elizabeth Bay reclamation and the holocene sunset in Sydney Harbour', Environmental Humanities, vol 9, no 1 , pp 40 - 59.
- Byrne, D. (2017), 'Stories from the Sandstone: Quarantine Inscriptions from Australia's Immigrant Past by Peter Hobbins, Ursula K. Frederick and Anne Clarke', Archaeology in Oceania, vol 52, no 3 , pp 199 - 200.
- Byrne, D. (2016), 'The problem with looting : an alternative perspective on antiquities trafficking in Southeast Asia', Journal of Field Archaeology, vol 41, no 3 , pp 344 - 354.
- Byrne, D. (2016), 'Heritage corridors : transnational flows and the built environment of migration', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol 42, no 14 , pp 2360 - 2378.
- Byrne, D. (2016), 'The need for a transnational approach to the material heritage of migration : the China-Australia corridor', Journal of Social Archaeology, vol 16, no 3 , pp 261 - 285.
- Byrne, D. (2016), 'What anchors the Tu Do?', Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, vol 3, no 2 , pp 279 - 285.
- Byrne, D. and Goodall, H. (2013), 'Placemaking and transnationalism : recent migrants and a national park in Sydney, Australia', PARKS: The International Journal of Protected Areas and Conservation, vol 19, no 1 , pp 63 - 72.
- Byrne, D. (2013), 'Love & loss in the 1960s', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol 19, no 6 , pp 596 - 609.
- Byrne, D. (2011), 'Archaeological heritage and cultural intimacy : an interview with Michael Herzfield', Journal of Social Archaeology, vol 11, no 2 , pp 144 - 157.
- Byrne, D. (2008), 'Counter-mapping : New South Wales & Southeast Asia', Transforming Cultures eJournal, vol 3, no 1 , pp 256 - 264.
- Byrne, D., Goodall, H., Wearing, S. and Cadzow, A. (2006), 'Enchanted parklands', Australian Geographer, vol 37, no 1 , pp 103 - 115.
- Byrne, D. (2004), 'Partnerships in the heritage of the displaced', Museum International, vol 56, no 4 , pp 89 - 97.
- Byrne, D. (2003), 'The ethos of return : erasure and reinstatement of Aboriginal visibility in the Australian historical landscape', Historical Archaeology, vol 37, no 1 , pp 73 - 86.
- Byrne, D. (2003), 'Nervous landscapes : race and space in Australia', Journal of Social Archaeology, vol 3, no 2 , pp 169 - 193.
- Byrne, D. (1995), 'Buddhist stupa and Thai social practice', World Archaeology, vol 27, no 2 , pp 266 - 281.
- Byrne, D. (1991), 'Western hegemony in archaeological heritage management', History and Anthropology, vol 5, no 2 , pp 269 - 76.
Other Publications
- 2012, 'Waters of Belonging: Al-Miyahu Tajma'unah: Arabic Australians & the Georges River Parklands', Report
- 2011, 'Waterborne : Vietnamese Australians and Sydney's Georges River Parks and Green Spaces', Report
- 2010, 'Place-Making in National Parks: Ways that Australians of Arabic and Vietnamese Background Percieve and Use the Parklands Along the Georges River, NSW', Report
Current Projects
| Title: | Heritage-making among recent migrants in Parramatta |
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| Western Researchers: | Denis Byrne and Emma Waterton |
| Years: | 2019-09-23 - 2024-09-22 |
| ID: | P00025282 |
Previous Projects
| Title: | The China-Australia Heritage Corridor |
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| Western Researchers: | Denis Byrne and Ien Ang |
| Years: | 2017-01-01 - 2021-12-31 |
| ID: | P00023220 |
| Title: | The Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory (EHC) [via Linkoping University] |
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| Western Researchers: | Denis Byrne and Isaac Lyne |
| Years: | 2017-08-28 - 2022-07-31 |
| ID: | P00023745 |