Roshi Naidoo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3783090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roshi Naidoo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roshi |
| FAMILY NAME | Naidoo |
| SIGNATURE | NAIDOO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yahoo (United Kingdom) |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-6863-5975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Space oddity – Reading Nirmal Puwar’s Space Invaders
UK museums are embracing decolonisation as a discourse and an institutional cultural policy. There has been a shift in the sector whereby discussions of colonial violence and white supremacy have become more common. Do we feel optimism at this turn or should we also be wary? Just as the museum has historically helped determine the canon of knowledge, it can also determine the ways in which we unpack and critique that canon. It can seek to manage …
Small Axe and the big tree of 2020
This article reflects on Steve McQueen's Small Axe series, exploring its importance in placing black narratives at the centre of history and on prime time television. It locates it within the context of a longer history of struggles over black representation and misrepresentation in mainstream British media. Naidoo draws on her own experiences to discuss the very slow progress towards diversity in the cultural life of Britain. She pays tribute to…
All that we are - heritage inside out and upside down
This article explores how the axis between heritage on the ‘inside’ and heritage on the ‘outside’ is imagined and produced, theoretically, politically and institutionally. It asks which outsider narratives are privileged and which are contained, and what the management of these boundaries inadvertently tells us about the politics and anxieties of the ‘inside’. It offers reasons for the pervasiveness of the border despite various initiatives to in…
The only game in town – the coalition, culture and neo-liberalism
The last five years have seen an intensification of the idea that the cultural sector must meet the shortfall in state funding by attracting more private investment. Public debates in the sector ha
The Politics of Heritage
While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being a peripheral concern, are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined? This book interrogates just whose past gets to count as part of 'British heritage'. Bringing together a wide range of contributors, including academics, practitioners, policy maker…
Politics of Heritage
The only game in town – the coalition, culture and neo-liberalism
The last five years have seen an intensification of the idea that the cultural sector must meet the shortfall in state funding by attracting more private investment. Public debates in the sector ha
Space oddity – Reading Nirmal Puwar’s Space Invaders
UK museums are embracing decolonisation as a discourse and an institutional cultural policy. There has been a shift in the sector whereby discussions of colonial violence and white supremacy have become more common. Do we feel optimism at this turn or should we also be wary? Just as the museum has historically helped determine the canon of knowledge, it can also determine the ways in which we unpack and critique that canon. It can seek to manage …
The Politics of Heritage
While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being a peripheral concern, are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined? This book interrogates just whose past gets to count as part of 'British heritage'. Bringing together a wide range of contributors, including academics, practitioners, policy maker…
Politics of Heritage
The only game in town – the coalition, culture and neo-liberalism
The last five years have seen an intensification of the idea that the cultural sector must meet the shortfall in state funding by attracting more private investment. Public debates in the sector ha
All that we are - heritage inside out and upside down
This article explores how the axis between heritage on the ‘inside’ and heritage on the ‘outside’ is imagined and produced, theoretically, politically and institutionally. It asks which outsider narratives are privileged and which are contained, and what the management of these boundaries inadvertently tells us about the politics and anxieties of the ‘inside’. It offers reasons for the pervasiveness of the border despite various initiatives to in…
Small Axe and the big tree of 2020
This article reflects on Steve McQueen's Small Axe series, exploring its importance in placing black narratives at the centre of history and on prime time television. It locates it within the context of a longer history of struggles over black representation and misrepresentation in mainstream British media. Naidoo draws on her own experiences to discuss the very slow progress towards diversity in the cultural life of Britain. She pays tribute to…
Space oddity – Reading Nirmal Puwar’s Space Invaders
UK museums are embracing decolonisation as a discourse and an institutional cultural policy. There has been a shift in the sector whereby discussions of colonial violence and white supremacy have become more common. Do we feel optimism at this turn or should we also be wary? Just as the museum has historically helped determine the canon of knowledge, it can also determine the ways in which we unpack and critique that canon. It can seek to manage …
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works)