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View article: False Promise: World Heritage, Ecotourism, and the Local Community of Strahan, Tasmania
False Promise: World Heritage, Ecotourism, and the Local Community of Strahan, Tasmania Open
The inscription of properties on the World Heritage List often places restrictions on existing livelihoods. In these contexts, tourism is widely held to be a panacea for the economic and social wellbeing of local communities. Ecotourism, i…
View article: Weedy Life: Coloniality, Decoloniality, and Tropicality
Weedy Life: Coloniality, Decoloniality, and Tropicality Open
Respect for any form of life entails nurturing all the potentialities proper to it, including those that might be unproductive from the human point of view. Are there lessons to be learnt about decolonisation of the tropics from a focus on…
View article: Food and Garden Organic Waste Management in Australia: Co-Benefits for Regional Communities and Local Government
Food and Garden Organic Waste Management in Australia: Co-Benefits for Regional Communities and Local Government Open
Landfilling organic waste generates greenhouse gases and contributes to climate change. While the management of organic waste has been identified by all tiers of Australian government as paramount to meeting net zero emissions targets, div…
View article: Plasticity and Time: Using the Stress-Strain Curve as a Framework for Investigating the Wicked Problems of Marine Pollution and Climate Change
Plasticity and Time: Using the Stress-Strain Curve as a Framework for Investigating the Wicked Problems of Marine Pollution and Climate Change Open
Plastics have become the characteristic material of the current Plastic Age. Yet plastics are also a highly contested form of heritage. Intact and functioning, they are useful, but when compromised they lose their utility and often also th…
View article: Romancing the Reef: history, heritage and the hyper-real
Romancing the Reef: history, heritage and the hyper-real Open
The Great Barrier Reef is regarded as one of the natural wonders of the world and is recognised as having World Heritage significance. The wealth and complexity of its natural attributes form the basis of a rich and complementary human his…
View article: Waiting, power and time in ethnographic and community-based research
Waiting, power and time in ethnographic and community-based research Open
Waiting is one of the most common phenomena in ethnographic and other community-based research. Nevertheless, it remains under-explored in academic writing about the theoretical and methodological aspects of fieldwork. While waiting time o…
View article: Contesting the Center
Contesting the Center Open
The twenty-first century has witnessed significant changes in heritage management practice and scholarship. This paper suggests that many of these innovations and changes have emerged as a consequence of protest or provocation from groups …