Provides the first overview of the relationship between art and governance in Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The book offers new perspectives on contemporary Australian cultural policy debates, and analyses the ways in which art has been used in different contexts.
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars to discuss frameworks of value in relation to the preservation of historic environments. Starting from the premise that heritage values are culturally and historically constructed, the book examines the effects of pluralist frameworks of value on how preservation is conceived. It questions the social and economic consequences of constructions of value and how to balance a responsive, democratic conception of heritage with the pressure to deliver on social and economic objectives. It also describes the practicalities of managing the uncertainty and fluidity of the widely varying conceptions of heritage.
Monumental Queensland encourages us - whoever and wherever we are - to look more closely at the things around us and how they articulate our identity. It also asks us to consider why these objects continue to matter, and shows what can happen if they're not acknowledged.
Museums and the Politics of Urban Development is a comparative international analysis of the role of museums in prestige cultural precincts. Over the last 10-15 years there has been a significant investment in prestigious urban developments which encompass multiple cultural and leisure facilities. Many of these precincts have a museum as a key cultural institution. Museums and the Politics of Urban Development provides an analysis of the international phenomenon of 'museum-led urban development' as has taken place over the last decade or so. In addition to an analysis and discussion of the general phenomenon the book will consider a range of carefully selected instances of museum-led urban development in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. Despite having radically different cultural, economic, political and social contexts cities in these countries have all in the last decade made a significant investment in a prestigious museum focused cultural precinct as a way of pump priming the regeneration, revitalisation or rebranding of the city. Museums and the Politics of Urban Development challenges more familiar accounts, primarily emerging from the disciplines of cultural geography, cultural studies, urban studies and tourism studies which understand museums in cultural precincts as functioning as 'monoliths'- institutions with a single dimension - characterised simply as vehicles of exclusive acculturation or as having purely commercial objectives. In introducing a more nuanced understanding of the museum, drawn from the discipline of museum studies, and a more nuanced approach to the analysis of cultural policy, taking account of the detailed and discursive conditions of policy and programme development, Museums and the Politics of Urban Development presents a careful and sophisticated analysis of museums in recently developed urban precincts and their political and policy contexts. Museums are analysed as institutions with multiple, sometimes competing meanings, situated in complex practical and discursive governmental environments. In recognising and engaging with this complexity the book will provides a new critical but practically focused assessment of the actual and potential role of museums in urban development.
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars to discuss frameworks of value in relation to the preservation of historic environments. Starting from the premise that heritage values are culturally and historically constructed, the book examines the effects of pluralist frameworks of value on how preservation is conceived. It questions the social and economic consequences of constructions of value and how to balance a responsive, democratic conception of heritage with the pressure to deliver on social and economic objectives. It also describes the practicalities of managing the uncertainty and fluidity of the widely varying conceptions of heritage.
Monumental Queensland encourages us - whoever and wherever we are - to look more closely at the things around us and how they articulate our identity. It also asks us to consider why these objects continue to matter, and shows what can happen if they're not acknowledged.
Provides the first overview of the relationship between art and governance in Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The book offers new perspectives on contemporary Australian cultural policy debates, and analyses the ways in which art has been used in different contexts.
At age 4, Lauren Chisholm declared she had the ‘most gorgeoustist, sparkly, friend in all the worlds, whose voice sounds like singing’. Her parents thought about taking her to a psychiatrist, in the hopes that Lauren would forget all about her ‘favouritemost friend’. But they knew who she was talking about... and what she was talking about: an angel. Their only course of action was to tell Lauren that some things were pretend and most definitely… not real. They knew it was wrong, but they were unsure of how else to help her. Lauren was an earthbound human, and to fantasise about a world she would not be allowed to enter was just not acceptable to them. Now, pandemonium is about to erupt. Up in The Heavens, Ambriel, the angel of communications, is worried. He has discovered an anomaly in his Book of Mistdreamers; the Chisholm family had managed to slip through without registering years ago and are now in great danger. There is a Traitor at work. Meanwhile, Forcas, the angel of invisibility and a member of The Infidelibus, (a band of angels sworn to protect Mistdreamers), has been chosen to make contact with Lauren to help her realise her Mistdreaming potential. Join her as she ventures into Mistdreaming, and explores the realms between Heaven and Hell. Laugh at her antics. Fear for her life, when she encounters the Traitor. And share in her joy at finding her one, true love... The Park Family: Lauren – The Awakening is a spellbinding novel that will appeal to fantasy readers. Author Lisanne takes inspiration from Harper Lee, J.R.R. Tolkien and Diana Gabaldon.
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.