Steven Cooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Cooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooke |
| SIGNATURE | COOKE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8679-5195 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Pragmatics of Holocaust Heritage in the Twenty-first Century: Exploring the Concept Using the Case Studies of Terezín and Staro Sajmište
The Pragmatics of Holocaust Heritage in the Twenty-first Century: Exploring the Concept Using the Case Studies of Terezín and Staro Sajmište
Constructing/curating Woomera: A topology of displacement between northeastern Europe and Central Australia
Through the 1950s and 1960s, top-secret rocket testing across a vast swathe of Australia’s arid interior continued to entangle the antipodean island continent in the geopolitical aftermath of WW2. So did the fast-growing settler-colonial nation’s post-war immigration policies. This paper focuses on Woomera, South Australia, the remote base settlement for these Cold War operations, and the role of ‘new Australians’, directly recruited from the ‘Di…
Research Protocol: A Transdisciplinary Multi-Case Study Research Design Using Mixed Methods to Evaluate the Long-Term Impact of Holocaust Museum Education in Australia
Holocaust museums around the world are distinctive in their emphasis on educational missions premised on the idea of 'never again', a deep belief that increasing public awareness of the history and contemporary significance of the Holocaust - the mass murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi regime during World War Two - can prevent the future recurrence of such events. In the Australian context, tens of thousands of school students visit …
Saved from Oblivion”? The Uncertain Futures of Holocaust Heritage
The twenty-first century is a time of increased uncertainty over the future of sites associated with the Holocaust. As “sites of memory” and “sites of conscience,” they are part of an ongoing debate as to their contentious place within international heritage conventions (UNESCO 2023). Further, while much attention has been paid to the specific challenges of managing Holocaust heritage in the context of the imminent passing of the last of the Holo…
Understanding the Social Value of Geelong’s Design and Manufacturing Heritage for Extended Reality
Post-industrial cities often find themselves at a crossroads as to whether to find a new identity or embrace their industrial past. In late 2017, after the closure of major manufacturing plants in the region, the Australian city of Geelong was designated a UNESCO City of Design and embraced a “Clever and Creative” strategy which acknowledged Geelong’s industrial and design past in responding to contemporary technological, demographic, and economi…
The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites
Introduction: Urban Heritage and the 'Everyday'Community-driven involvement in heritage practice has been advocated through a number of key texts and case studies, chronicling not only
Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries Libraries Archives Museums and Heritage Sites
A modern chamber of horrors’? Temporary Holocaust exhibitions as sites of memory: The 1961 Warsaw Ghetto commemoration exhibition, Melbourne
This paper examines the 1961 Warsaw Ghetto exhibition in Melbourne, Australia. Within the context of Eichmann’s trial in Israel and fears of rising anti-Semitism in Australia, the exhibition is a site through which debates over Jewish identity, Holocaust memory, and the hitherto marginalised role of temporary exhibitions can be understood. Using archival traces, the paper examines the intentions of the exhibition’s organisers, and its reception b…
Imagination, performance and affect: A critical pedagogy of the Holocaust
Based on video testimony interviews held in the Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History archive and the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre’s archive, this paper examines Holocaust survivor testimony as it relates to their return to the sites of atrocity, particularly Auschwitz-Birkenau. It analyses how survivor’s (re)encounters with material and imaginative landscapes reveals conceptions of, inter alia, agency, community, absence and belonging…
Emotional stories of war
Review of ' The Home Front: Australia During the First World War ' , Joanne Bach and Jono Lineen, curators, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, From 3 Apri 2015
Constructing the Identity of a Nation: The Tourist Gaze at the Museum of Scotland
n\t\t\t\t\tIn an era of global instability and crises of national identity, the role of heritage tourism in creating images of national identity has become an important area for research. This article considers the role of heritage tourism in constructing national identity in the nation of Scotland through the lens of the Museum of Scotland. It describes the findings of qualitative research undertaken with potential and actual target consumers to…
The National Museum of Scotland: A Symbol for a New Scotland
n\t\t\t\t\tThe National Museum of Scotland (forthwith 'Museum') opened to critical acclaim on St Andrew's Day 1998 (see McKean 2000). The timing of the opening was culturally and politically symbolic, taking place on the patron saint of Scotland's day, whilst falling between the devolution referendum for, and the opening of, the reinstated Scottish Parliament. The museum offers a representation of Scotland, one which is negotiated by its creators…
Tales from the Riverbank: Place-Marketing and Maritime Heritages
n\t\t\t\t\tAlthough place-marketing and image-enhancement are increasingly common elements of Western urban policy, when applied to specific locales, these abstract theories have to negotiate local conditions and contexts. This paper discusses the ways attempts to place-market the city of Hull, England, prompted debates surrounding questions of place, memory and heritage. Despite being Britain's leading fishing port in the 20th century, Hull's pl…
Discourses of regeneration in early twentieth‐century Britain: From Bedlam to the Imperial War Museum
This paper examines the building that presently houses the Imperial War Museum, investigating the transformation of the archetypal ‘mad space’ of the Bethlem Royal Hospital into what has been described as the ‘biggest boy’s bedroom in London’. Following recent concerns in human geography with Imperial cities, it highlights the differing ways in which this transformation embodies a number of themes of degeneration and regeneration in early twentie…
Negotiating memory and identity: The Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial, London
Excavations at Nichoria in Messenia: 1972-1973
Negotiating memory and identity: The Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial, London
Tales from the Riverbank: Place-Marketing and Maritime Heritages
n\t\t\t\t\tAlthough place-marketing and image-enhancement are increasingly common elements of Western urban policy, when applied to specific locales, these abstract theories have to negotiate local conditions and contexts. This paper discusses the ways attempts to place-market the city of Hull, England, prompted debates surrounding questions of place, memory and heritage. Despite being Britain's leading fishing port in the 20th century, Hull's pl…
Imagination, performance and affect: A critical pedagogy of the Holocaust
Based on video testimony interviews held in the Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History archive and the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre’s archive, this paper examines Holocaust survivor testimony as it relates to their return to the sites of atrocity, particularly Auschwitz-Birkenau. It analyses how survivor’s (re)encounters with material and imaginative landscapes reveals conceptions of, inter alia, agency, community, absence and belonging…
Excavations at Nichoria in Messenia: 1972-1973
Constructing/curating Woomera: A topology of displacement between northeastern Europe and Central Australia
Through the 1950s and 1960s, top-secret rocket testing across a vast swathe of Australia’s arid interior continued to entangle the antipodean island continent in the geopolitical aftermath of WW2. So did the fast-growing settler-colonial nation’s post-war immigration policies. This paper focuses on Woomera, South Australia, the remote base settlement for these Cold War operations, and the role of ‘new Australians’, directly recruited from the ‘Di…
Research Protocol: A Transdisciplinary Multi-Case Study Research Design Using Mixed Methods to Evaluate the Long-Term Impact of Holocaust Museum Education in Australia
Holocaust museums around the world are distinctive in their emphasis on educational missions premised on the idea of 'never again', a deep belief that increasing public awareness of the history and contemporary significance of the Holocaust - the mass murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi regime during World War Two - can prevent the future recurrence of such events. In the Australian context, tens of thousands of school students visit …
Understanding the Social Value of Geelong’s Design and Manufacturing Heritage for Extended Reality
Post-industrial cities often find themselves at a crossroads as to whether to find a new identity or embrace their industrial past. In late 2017, after the closure of major manufacturing plants in the region, the Australian city of Geelong was designated a UNESCO City of Design and embraced a “Clever and Creative” strategy which acknowledged Geelong’s industrial and design past in responding to contemporary technological, demographic, and economi…
The National Museum of Scotland: A Symbol for a New Scotland
n\t\t\t\t\tThe National Museum of Scotland (forthwith 'Museum') opened to critical acclaim on St Andrew's Day 1998 (see McKean 2000). The timing of the opening was culturally and politically symbolic, taking place on the patron saint of Scotland's day, whilst falling between the devolution referendum for, and the opening of, the reinstated Scottish Parliament. The museum offers a representation of Scotland, one which is negotiated by its creators…
Excavations at Nichoria in Messenia: 1972-1973
Negotiating memory and identity: The Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial, London
Discourses of regeneration in early twentieth‐century Britain: From Bedlam to the Imperial War Museum
This paper examines the building that presently houses the Imperial War Museum, investigating the transformation of the archetypal ‘mad space’ of the Bethlem Royal Hospital into what has been described as the ‘biggest boy’s bedroom in London’. Following recent concerns in human geography with Imperial cities, it highlights the differing ways in which this transformation embodies a number of themes of degeneration and regeneration in early twentie…
Tales from the Riverbank: Place-Marketing and Maritime Heritages
n\t\t\t\t\tAlthough place-marketing and image-enhancement are increasingly common elements of Western urban policy, when applied to specific locales, these abstract theories have to negotiate local conditions and contexts. This paper discusses the ways attempts to place-market the city of Hull, England, prompted debates surrounding questions of place, memory and heritage. Despite being Britain's leading fishing port in the 20th century, Hull's pl…
Constructing the Identity of a Nation: The Tourist Gaze at the Museum of Scotland
n\t\t\t\t\tIn an era of global instability and crises of national identity, the role of heritage tourism in creating images of national identity has become an important area for research. This article considers the role of heritage tourism in constructing national identity in the nation of Scotland through the lens of the Museum of Scotland. It describes the findings of qualitative research undertaken with potential and actual target consumers to…
The National Museum of Scotland: A Symbol for a New Scotland
n\t\t\t\t\tThe National Museum of Scotland (forthwith 'Museum') opened to critical acclaim on St Andrew's Day 1998 (see McKean 2000). The timing of the opening was culturally and politically symbolic, taking place on the patron saint of Scotland's day, whilst falling between the devolution referendum for, and the opening of, the reinstated Scottish Parliament. The museum offers a representation of Scotland, one which is negotiated by its creators…
Imagination, performance and affect: A critical pedagogy of the Holocaust
Based on video testimony interviews held in the Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History archive and the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre’s archive, this paper examines Holocaust survivor testimony as it relates to their return to the sites of atrocity, particularly Auschwitz-Birkenau. It analyses how survivor’s (re)encounters with material and imaginative landscapes reveals conceptions of, inter alia, agency, community, absence and belonging…
Emotional stories of war
Review of ' The Home Front: Australia During the First World War ' , Joanne Bach and Jono Lineen, curators, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, From 3 Apri 2015
A modern chamber of horrors’? Temporary Holocaust exhibitions as sites of memory: The 1961 Warsaw Ghetto commemoration exhibition, Melbourne
This paper examines the 1961 Warsaw Ghetto exhibition in Melbourne, Australia. Within the context of Eichmann’s trial in Israel and fears of rising anti-Semitism in Australia, the exhibition is a site through which debates over Jewish identity, Holocaust memory, and the hitherto marginalised role of temporary exhibitions can be understood. Using archival traces, the paper examines the intentions of the exhibition’s organisers, and its reception b…
The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites
Introduction: Urban Heritage and the 'Everyday'Community-driven involvement in heritage practice has been advocated through a number of key texts and case studies, chronicling not only
Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries Libraries Archives Museums and Heritage Sites
Saved from Oblivion”? The Uncertain Futures of Holocaust Heritage
The twenty-first century is a time of increased uncertainty over the future of sites associated with the Holocaust. As “sites of memory” and “sites of conscience,” they are part of an ongoing debate as to their contentious place within international heritage conventions (UNESCO 2023). Further, while much attention has been paid to the specific challenges of managing Holocaust heritage in the context of the imminent passing of the last of the Holo…
Understanding the Social Value of Geelong’s Design and Manufacturing Heritage for Extended Reality
Post-industrial cities often find themselves at a crossroads as to whether to find a new identity or embrace their industrial past. In late 2017, after the closure of major manufacturing plants in the region, the Australian city of Geelong was designated a UNESCO City of Design and embraced a “Clever and Creative” strategy which acknowledged Geelong’s industrial and design past in responding to contemporary technological, demographic, and economi…
Research Protocol: A Transdisciplinary Multi-Case Study Research Design Using Mixed Methods to Evaluate the Long-Term Impact of Holocaust Museum Education in Australia
Holocaust museums around the world are distinctive in their emphasis on educational missions premised on the idea of 'never again', a deep belief that increasing public awareness of the history and contemporary significance of the Holocaust - the mass murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi regime during World War Two - can prevent the future recurrence of such events. In the Australian context, tens of thousands of school students visit …
The Pragmatics of Holocaust Heritage in the Twenty-first Century: Exploring the Concept Using the Case Studies of Terezín and Staro Sajmište
The Pragmatics of Holocaust Heritage in the Twenty-first Century: Exploring the Concept Using the Case Studies of Terezín and Staro Sajmište
Constructing/curating Woomera: A topology of displacement between northeastern Europe and Central Australia
Through the 1950s and 1960s, top-secret rocket testing across a vast swathe of Australia’s arid interior continued to entangle the antipodean island continent in the geopolitical aftermath of WW2. So did the fast-growing settler-colonial nation’s post-war immigration policies. This paper focuses on Woomera, South Australia, the remote base settlement for these Cold War operations, and the role of ‘new Australians’, directly recruited from the ‘Di…
Sociology (10 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (7 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · The Holocaust (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)