ICS Seminar Series

Event Name
ICS Seminar Series
Date
26 March 2020
Time
11:30 am - 01:00 pm
Location
External

Address (Room): This seminar will take place online via Zoom: https://uws.zoom.us/j/324554331

Description
Abstract:

Considerations of social justice are increasingly common in critical heritage studies. There is a dearth of research, however, that engages with the concept of cultural justice in relation to heritage. According to Ross (1998, 2), cultural justice refers to ‘doing justice to culture, pursuing justice through cultural means, and seeking justice for cultural claims’. Much like social justice, cultural justice is concerned with issues of power and inequalities, but is specifically attentive to the cultural fabric of communities – to cultural forms, expressions, narratives and institutions. This paper explores the conceptual contours of cultural justice and how it can be used as a lens through which to analyse heritage. Using the case study of community-based heritage initiatives focused on popular music’s past in three deindustrialising cities – Wollongong, Australia; Birmingham, UK; and Detroit, USA – the paper considers how cultural justice manifests in relation to heritage practices. Drawing on Banerjee and Steinberg’s (2015) work on the role of cultural narratives in environmental justice movements, the paper discusses how cultural justice outcomes can be sought through preservation, storytelling and community mobilisation.

Biography:

Zelmarie Cantillon is a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. Her research focuses on the intersections between spatiality, heritage, cultural policy and tourism. She is author of Resort Spatiality: Reimagining Sites of Mass Tourism (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History (Routledge, 2018) and Remembering Popular Music’s Past: Memory–Heritage–History (Anthem Press, 2019).

Speakers: Dr Zelmarie Cantillon

Web page: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_seminar_series

Contact
Name: Elise Blight

e.blight@westernsydney.edu.au

Phone: 0412 159 085

School / Department: Institute for Culture and Society