Critical Heritage Studies in Canada : Special issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 30128074
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This special issue was edited by the author with Andrea Terry. Two aspects are joined for one output here, the “Introduction” by the editors and Dr Ashley’s contribution co-authored by two postdoctoral graduates, Caitlin Gordon-Walker and Analays Alvarez Hernandez, mentees of Dr Ashley. The Special Issue was pioneering in featuring critical heritage research in Canada, accepted by the prestigious Canadian bilingual journal for Canadian Studies/etudes canadiennes. This issue featured not only a dozen ground-breaking peer-reviewed articles in English and French, but also featured a critical-heritage specific book review and an omnibus feature article on policies of ‘patrimoine’ in Canada.
The Ashley joint-authored article merged independent research by each of the three authors about memorialising by minority ethnic groups within the context of Canadian multiculturalism policy. The article centred on the shift in ‘heritagization’ towards a politics of repentance and reconciliation, which has also emerged globally and nationally in the past few decades. The research examined specific instances of exhibitioning and memorialising of violence and exclusion that occurred in Canada’s past, particularly the discrimination and internment experienced by Italian Canadians during the Second World War. While these can be read as institutionalizing traumatic memories and promoting a legitimizing narrative of the Canadian settler nation-state, they also serve to enable communities to inscribe their own narratives in Canadian history.
This project led to naming of Dr Ashley as co-coordinator of the new Canadian Chapter of the international Association of Critical Heritage Studies in 2018, and was the basis for securing a Visiting Professorship at York University at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies in autumn 2019.
Two articles from this special issue won Best Article and Honourable Mention 2019, from the Canadian Studies Network and the Journal of Canadian Studies/ Reseau d'etudes Canadiennes.
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- Non-English
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