Heritage is Movement: Heritage Management and Research in a Diverse and Plural World (Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect)

This book presents new ways of understanding heritage and heritage work. It addresses the ways physical processes of creation, maintenance and decay are entangled with cultural and political processes of management, access and care.

The book analyzes a critical practice of heritage work oriented to recognizing and collaborating with diverse knowledge holders and their practices of caring for heritage. This requires rethinking accepted heritage concepts, such as heritage management, artifact, site and the definition of heritage itself. The book presents an engaging and applied approach to this task through examples that include Majapahit statues and temples in Indonesia, skating in London, an online heritage movement, building bivouacs in Australia, First Nations advocacy for Country and batik collections in the Netherlands.

Offering a new model for collaborative heritage research and analysis, this book will be of interest to researchers, students and practitioners. Drawing from developments from the posthumanities, cultural geography and critical heritage studies, it presents a collaborative mode of scholarship and writing that considers how people care for and use the things history leaves them.

Tod Jones is an Associate Professor in Geography in the School of Design and Built Environment, Curtin University. He has worked on cultural policy and heritage issues in Indonesia and Australia since 1999. His current research brings cultural and political geography concepts and tools in dialogue with heritage concepts and frameworks to issues of heritage management. He has worked with Aboriginal communities across Western Australia on community cultural development initiatives, and with heritage groups in Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. He has published two books: Culture, power and authoritarianism in the Indonesian state (2013) and a co-authored collection with Ali Mozaffari, Heritage movements in Asia (2020). He has published articles in the leading heritage studies journals, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Heritage and Society, and International Journal of Cultural Policy. Altogether he has been leading author or a contributor on 29 peer-reviewed journal articles and 11 book chapters. His research on Indonesian cultural policy was debated in the Indonesian parliament and influenced the new national cultural policy legislation.