D Byrne
Biographic Data
| ID | 67042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Byrne |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrne |
| SIGNATURE | BYRNE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9799-8572 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 488 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The migration heritage corridor: Transnationalism, Modernity and Race
Currently, heritage practice brings a nation-centric lens to the heritage of migration, privileging narratives of arrival and settlement over narratives of return, circulatory transnational flows, and cross-border connectivity. Drawing on the case of Chinese migration to Australia in the period from the 1840s to the 1940s, the ‘heritage corridor’ concept is proposed here as an aid in conceptualising a heritage that escapes the nation-state frame …
Divinely significant: Towards a postsecular approach to the materiality of popular religion in Asia
The material embeddedness of the divine in the objects and sites of popular religion in Asia establishes the grounds for a conflict between devotees and heritage practitioners – the same objects are central to the practice of each but each hones in on them via a radically different ontology. While in principle offering an even-handed consideration of all aspects of a thing’s meaning, the secular-rationalist underpinning of the practice of signifi…
Consensus building, negotiation, and conflict resolution for heritage place management
This volume is the proceedings of a workshop held at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles in 2009 as part of a move to introduce consensus building concepts and techniques to the heritag
Prospects for a Postsecular Heritage Practice: Convergences between Posthumanism and Popular Religious Practice in Asia
By failing to document popular belief in the supernatural attributes of religious sites and by drawing up conservation management plans that fail to attend to such beliefs, current heritage regimes effectively perform a secular translation of them. I argue that the posthuman turn in the humanities and social sciences, and in particular its openness to forms of agency, vibrancy and vitality in the object world, offers prospects for a kind of herit…
Time on the Waterline: Coastal Reclamations and Seawalls in Sydney and Japan
Coastal reclamations may represent humanity's overreaching lust for land, but from whereI stand in 2015 on the beach below the reclamation at Elizabeth Bay on Sydney Harbour,gazing at the sandstone seawall, what compels my attention is the way this reclamationis giving up its substance to the sea. As the geological time of the wall engages with therhythmic time of the sea, my own geosubjectivity comes momentarily into view. Recollectionof the rec…
Quality-Adjusted Price Measurement: A New Approach with Evidence from Semiconductors
Many markets exhibit price dispersion across suppliers of observationally identical goods. Statistical agencies typically assume this dispersion reflects unobserved quality, so standard price indexes do not incorporate price declines when buyers substitute toward lower-price suppliers. We show that long-run price differences across suppliers can be used to infer unobserved quality differences and propose an index that accommodates quality-adjuste…
What Anchors the Tu Do
A 1970s Vietnamese refugee boat, the Tu Do, exhibited at a maritime museum in Sydney, commemorates Australia’s decision to open its borders to those fleeing the aftermath of the Vietnam War. What concerns me is the absence in the museum’s interpretive material of any reference to the contemporary interdiction at sea of asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia. This means the Tu Do is discursively quarantined from its companion objects, those …
Stones standing. Archaeology, colonialism, and ecotourism in northern Laos
‘Time is a crumpled handkerchief’. This is how Serres (1997) describes the time of history and time as it is experienced in our everyday lives. Different periods and events in time bend towards eac
Remembering the Elizabeth Bay Reclamation and the Holocene Sunset in Sydney Harbour
Projects of coastal reclamation have allowed humanity to expand its terrestrial foothold, often quite dramatically, although the act of extension may be forgotten as we come to naturalize these new lands as timeless terra firma. Against this possibility, my investigation of the 1880s reclamation of the Elizabeth Bay foreshore on Sydney Harbour, Australia, is a work of recall or recovery. The introduction by British colonists in the late 1700s of …
Knowledge and power in prehistoric societies: Orality, memory and the transmission of culture
Knowledge and power in prehistoric societies: orality, memory and the transmission of culture." Australian Archaeology, 82(1), pp. 86–87
The problem with looting: An alternative perspective on antiquities trafficking in Southeast Asia
The 1950s and 1960s constitute a key “moment” in the history of the looting of archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. The emergence in the region at that time of a commodity market for antiquities such as pottery triggered a wave of illicit excavation of archaeological sites. Simultaneous with the trafficking of antiquities out of the Philippines and Thailand into the hands of private collectors and museums in the West during this period and sub…
The need for a transnational approach to the material heritage of migration: The China-Australia corridor
Currently, a unilinear, nation-bounded approach is taken to the recording and interpretation of the material heritage of immigration in settler nations, largely ignoring the transnational social fields to which the immigrants who created the heritage places and buildings belonged. Focusing on Chinese migration to Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries, I offer the 'heritage corridor' concept as better representing the transnationally 'stretched…
Days in Hong Kong, May 2011
Counterheritage
The claim that heritage practice in Asia is Eurocentric may be well-founded, but the view that local people in Asia need to be educated by heritage practitioners and governments to properly conserve their heritage distracts from the responsibility of educating oneself about the local-popular beliefs and practices which constitute the bedrock of most people’s engagement with the material past. Written by an archaeologist who has long had one foot …
Placemaking and transnationalism: Recent migrants and a national park in Sydney, Australia
A study of the way Arab and Vietnamese migrants engage with a national park environment in south-west Sydney, Australia, has highlighted the agency of these people as they not merely adapt to that environment but actively make places for themselves in it. The concept of placemaking is useful particularly in showing that 'place' can be constructed out of social practice, emotion and affect, and does not have to entail physical impact on or alterat…
Difference
This chapter looks to the contribution an archaeology of the contemporary past can make to reframing conceptions of Indigenous authenticity. Drawing on archaeological fieldwork experiences from the 1980s in New South Wales, Australia, the author, in retrospect, realizes the extent to which what he had framed, in positivist terms, as prehistoric stone artefacts that comprised a field of affective intensity for his Aboriginal co-worker. The chapter…
Love & loss in the 1960s
Roland Barthes observed that though there is a 'lover's discourse' shared by all those who are in love, it is a discourse ignored or disparaged by 'surrounding languages'. Concerned that the discourse of heritage may participate in this closure against the 'in love' experience, I begin to explore ways the field of heritage studies might start speaking this language. Specifically, I ponder the ways that a young Chinese woman in the film Days of be…
War and revolution as national heritage: ‘Red Tourism’ in China
Nearly twenty years ago I wrote a review article (Byrne 1991) which discussed the West’s hegemonic dominance of global heritage practice. I had been particularly influenced in this by a small but influential article recently written by conservation architects Chen Wei and Andreas Aas (1989). Citing the case of built heritage sites in Asia which had histories of continuous construction and reconstruction, these authors point to the inability of th…
Deep nation: Australia’s acquisition of an indigenous past
Prehistoric archaeology has done little to debunk the idea of the timeless/traditional Aborigine because the virtual merging of the discourses of archaeology and heritage locked Australian archaeology into a form of essentialism. Various means were being used to decrease the visibility of living Aboriginal people in the landscape and various other means were being employed to enhance the visibility of the archaeological remains that were replacin…
Archaeological heritage and cultural intimacy: An interview with Michael Herzfeld
Nervous Landscapes: Race and Space in Australia
It almost goes without saying that racial segregation, by its very nature, is a spatial practice. It is about the separation of people in space and the rules and devices that are set up to achieve this. A segregated society necessitates a segregated landscape and one of my premises in this chapter is that the policies and practices of segregation could not be implemented in Australia until the white colonial state had achieved substantial cadastr…
Fishing the Georges River: Cultural Diversity and Urban Environments
Fishing is the most popular recreation in Australia but there are many different ways in which Australians have fished. Here are just a few extracts from interviews with people who live near and use the Georges River, a large tidal river in Sydney’s suburban south-west.1 They suggest the diverse skills and knowledge on the river, but also the currents of emotion, fear and politics which swirl around everyday fishing: Mahmoud lives in Bankstown bu…
Archaeology and the Fortress of Rationality
i archaeology and the fortress of rationality If environmental conservation conjures its own global spatial universe out of a deliberate focus on the needs of biodiversity rather than the needs of people living in or near protected areas (Hughes 2005: 157; Tsing 2000), archaeological heritage conservation might be said to conjure a global spatial universe of its own.This latter is an order of space defined by the discourses of archaeology and her…
A Bend in the Yarra: A History of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841-1851
A Bend in the Yarra: A History of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841–1851, Ian D. Clark & Toby Heydon, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2004, 90pp, ISBN 0855754699 - Volume 35
The Ethos of Return: Erasure and Reinstatement of Aboriginal Visibility in the Australian Historical Landscape
Interpersonal attraction and attitude similarity
Western hegemony in archaeological heritage management
1991). Western hegemony in archaeological heritage management. History and Anthropology: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 269-276
Nervous Landscapes: Race and Space in Australia
The experience of being on the receiving end of racial segregation has been fundamental to the way generations of Aboriginal people in NSW view the landscape. Racial segregation was and is a spatial system with a plenitude of dividing lines, but the lines were unmarked more than marked, the conventions unvoiced more than spoken. Historically, in the Australian case, it was a system that covered its own tracks and left few marks apart from those i…
Buddhiststupaand Thai social practice
This paper explores the place of the stupa in Thai Buddhism, particularly the way that stupa tend to be elaborated and enlarged over time by encasing the older fabric in a new shell. The discussion is framed as a critique of current conservation practice which, privileging 'original' fabric, cuts across Thai local religious practice
The Ubiquitous Relationship: Attitude Similarity and Attraction
Deep nation: Australia’s acquisition of an indigenous past
Prehistoric archaeology has done little to debunk the idea of the timeless/traditional Aborigine because the virtual merging of the discourses of archaeology and heritage locked Australian archaeology into a form of essentialism. Various means were being used to decrease the visibility of living Aboriginal people in the landscape and various other means were being employed to enhance the visibility of the archaeological remains that were replacin…
The Ethos of Return: Erasure and Reinstatement of Aboriginal Visibility in the Australian Historical Landscape
Love & loss in the 1960s
Roland Barthes observed that though there is a 'lover's discourse' shared by all those who are in love, it is a discourse ignored or disparaged by 'surrounding languages'. Concerned that the discourse of heritage may participate in this closure against the 'in love' experience, I begin to explore ways the field of heritage studies might start speaking this language. Specifically, I ponder the ways that a young Chinese woman in the film Days of be…
Archaeological heritage and cultural intimacy: An interview with Michael Herzfeld
Divinely significant: Towards a postsecular approach to the materiality of popular religion in Asia
The material embeddedness of the divine in the objects and sites of popular religion in Asia establishes the grounds for a conflict between devotees and heritage practitioners – the same objects are central to the practice of each but each hones in on them via a radically different ontology. While in principle offering an even-handed consideration of all aspects of a thing’s meaning, the secular-rationalist underpinning of the practice of signifi…
Prospects for a Postsecular Heritage Practice: Convergences between Posthumanism and Popular Religious Practice in Asia
By failing to document popular belief in the supernatural attributes of religious sites and by drawing up conservation management plans that fail to attend to such beliefs, current heritage regimes effectively perform a secular translation of them. I argue that the posthuman turn in the humanities and social sciences, and in particular its openness to forms of agency, vibrancy and vitality in the object world, offers prospects for a kind of herit…
The problem with looting: An alternative perspective on antiquities trafficking in Southeast Asia
The 1950s and 1960s constitute a key “moment” in the history of the looting of archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. The emergence in the region at that time of a commodity market for antiquities such as pottery triggered a wave of illicit excavation of archaeological sites. Simultaneous with the trafficking of antiquities out of the Philippines and Thailand into the hands of private collectors and museums in the West during this period and sub…
Remembering the Elizabeth Bay Reclamation and the Holocene Sunset in Sydney Harbour
Projects of coastal reclamation have allowed humanity to expand its terrestrial foothold, often quite dramatically, although the act of extension may be forgotten as we come to naturalize these new lands as timeless terra firma. Against this possibility, my investigation of the 1880s reclamation of the Elizabeth Bay foreshore on Sydney Harbour, Australia, is a work of recall or recovery. The introduction by British colonists in the late 1700s of …
Difference
This chapter looks to the contribution an archaeology of the contemporary past can make to reframing conceptions of Indigenous authenticity. Drawing on archaeological fieldwork experiences from the 1980s in New South Wales, Australia, the author, in retrospect, realizes the extent to which what he had framed, in positivist terms, as prehistoric stone artefacts that comprised a field of affective intensity for his Aboriginal co-worker. The chapter…
The need for a transnational approach to the material heritage of migration: The China-Australia corridor
Currently, a unilinear, nation-bounded approach is taken to the recording and interpretation of the material heritage of immigration in settler nations, largely ignoring the transnational social fields to which the immigrants who created the heritage places and buildings belonged. Focusing on Chinese migration to Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries, I offer the 'heritage corridor' concept as better representing the transnationally 'stretched…
Some inconsistencies in the effect of motivation arousal on humor preferences
The migration heritage corridor: Transnationalism, Modernity and Race
Currently, heritage practice brings a nation-centric lens to the heritage of migration, privileging narratives of arrival and settlement over narratives of return, circulatory transnational flows, and cross-border connectivity. Drawing on the case of Chinese migration to Australia in the period from the 1840s to the 1940s, the ‘heritage corridor’ concept is proposed here as an aid in conceptualising a heritage that escapes the nation-state frame …
Simulation - A Way Forward
The contemporary structure of scientific activity, including the publication of papers in academic journals, citation behaviour, the clustering of research into specialties and so on has been intensively studied over the last fifty years. A number of quantitative relationships between aspects of the system have been observed. This paper reports on a simulation designed to see whether it is possible to reproduce the form of these observed relation…
Anxiety and the experimental arousal of affiliation need
What Anchors the Tu Do
A 1970s Vietnamese refugee boat, the Tu Do, exhibited at a maritime museum in Sydney, commemorates Australia’s decision to open its borders to those fleeing the aftermath of the Vietnam War. What concerns me is the absence in the museum’s interpretive material of any reference to the contemporary interdiction at sea of asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia. This means the Tu Do is discursively quarantined from its companion objects, those …
Knowledge and power in prehistoric societies: Orality, memory and the transmission of culture
Knowledge and power in prehistoric societies: orality, memory and the transmission of culture." Australian Archaeology, 82(1), pp. 86–87
Incongruency as a predictor of response to humor
Interpersonal attraction and attitude similarity
Anxiety and the experimental arousal of affiliation need
Some inconsistencies in the effect of motivation arousal on humor preferences
The Ubiquitous Relationship: Attitude Similarity and Attraction
Western hegemony in archaeological heritage management
1991). Western hegemony in archaeological heritage management. History and Anthropology: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 269-276
Buddhiststupaand Thai social practice
This paper explores the place of the stupa in Thai Buddhism, particularly the way that stupa tend to be elaborated and enlarged over time by encasing the older fabric in a new shell. The discussion is framed as a critique of current conservation practice which, privileging 'original' fabric, cuts across Thai local religious practice
Simulation - A Way Forward
The contemporary structure of scientific activity, including the publication of papers in academic journals, citation behaviour, the clustering of research into specialties and so on has been intensively studied over the last fifty years. A number of quantitative relationships between aspects of the system have been observed. This paper reports on a simulation designed to see whether it is possible to reproduce the form of these observed relation…
The nation, the élite and the Southeast Asian antiquities trade: With special reference to Thailand
The dealings that the Thai nation state has had with archaeological sites and antiquities appear to fit at least as well within the framework of antiquarian collecting as within that of modern archaeology. It is argued that this reflects the potential that sites and antiquities have to function as cultural capital. Citing Pierre Bourdieu, it is proposed that there is a commonality of interests between the state and the many private collectors amo…
The Ethos of Return: Erasure and Reinstatement of Aboriginal Visibility in the Australian Historical Landscape
Nervous Landscapes: Race and Space in Australia
The experience of being on the receiving end of racial segregation has been fundamental to the way generations of Aboriginal people in NSW view the landscape. Racial segregation was and is a spatial system with a plenitude of dividing lines, but the lines were unmarked more than marked, the conventions unvoiced more than spoken. Historically, in the Australian case, it was a system that covered its own tracks and left few marks apart from those i…
A Bend in the Yarra: A History of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841-1851
A Bend in the Yarra: A History of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841–1851, Ian D. Clark & Toby Heydon, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2004, 90pp, ISBN 0855754699 - Volume 35
Fishing the Georges River: Cultural Diversity and Urban Environments
Fishing is the most popular recreation in Australia but there are many different ways in which Australians have fished. Here are just a few extracts from interviews with people who live near and use the Georges River, a large tidal river in Sydney’s suburban south-west.1 They suggest the diverse skills and knowledge on the river, but also the currents of emotion, fear and politics which swirl around everyday fishing: Mahmoud lives in Bankstown bu…
Archaeology and the Fortress of Rationality
i archaeology and the fortress of rationality If environmental conservation conjures its own global spatial universe out of a deliberate focus on the needs of biodiversity rather than the needs of people living in or near protected areas (Hughes 2005: 157; Tsing 2000), archaeological heritage conservation might be said to conjure a global spatial universe of its own.This latter is an order of space defined by the discourses of archaeology and her…
Nervous Landscapes: Race and Space in Australia
It almost goes without saying that racial segregation, by its very nature, is a spatial practice. It is about the separation of people in space and the rules and devices that are set up to achieve this. A segregated society necessitates a segregated landscape and one of my premises in this chapter is that the policies and practices of segregation could not be implemented in Australia until the white colonial state had achieved substantial cadastr…
Deep nation: Australia’s acquisition of an indigenous past
Prehistoric archaeology has done little to debunk the idea of the timeless/traditional Aborigine because the virtual merging of the discourses of archaeology and heritage locked Australian archaeology into a form of essentialism. Various means were being used to decrease the visibility of living Aboriginal people in the landscape and various other means were being employed to enhance the visibility of the archaeological remains that were replacin…
Archaeological heritage and cultural intimacy: An interview with Michael Herzfeld
War and revolution as national heritage: ‘Red Tourism’ in China
Nearly twenty years ago I wrote a review article (Byrne 1991) which discussed the West’s hegemonic dominance of global heritage practice. I had been particularly influenced in this by a small but influential article recently written by conservation architects Chen Wei and Andreas Aas (1989). Citing the case of built heritage sites in Asia which had histories of continuous construction and reconstruction, these authors point to the inability of th…
Placemaking and transnationalism: Recent migrants and a national park in Sydney, Australia
A study of the way Arab and Vietnamese migrants engage with a national park environment in south-west Sydney, Australia, has highlighted the agency of these people as they not merely adapt to that environment but actively make places for themselves in it. The concept of placemaking is useful particularly in showing that 'place' can be constructed out of social practice, emotion and affect, and does not have to entail physical impact on or alterat…
Difference
This chapter looks to the contribution an archaeology of the contemporary past can make to reframing conceptions of Indigenous authenticity. Drawing on archaeological fieldwork experiences from the 1980s in New South Wales, Australia, the author, in retrospect, realizes the extent to which what he had framed, in positivist terms, as prehistoric stone artefacts that comprised a field of affective intensity for his Aboriginal co-worker. The chapter…
Love & loss in the 1960s
Roland Barthes observed that though there is a 'lover's discourse' shared by all those who are in love, it is a discourse ignored or disparaged by 'surrounding languages'. Concerned that the discourse of heritage may participate in this closure against the 'in love' experience, I begin to explore ways the field of heritage studies might start speaking this language. Specifically, I ponder the ways that a young Chinese woman in the film Days of be…
Counterheritage
The claim that heritage practice in Asia is Eurocentric may be well-founded, but the view that local people in Asia need to be educated by heritage practitioners and governments to properly conserve their heritage distracts from the responsibility of educating oneself about the local-popular beliefs and practices which constitute the bedrock of most people’s engagement with the material past. Written by an archaeologist who has long had one foot …
Days in Hong Kong, May 2011
Knowledge and power in prehistoric societies: Orality, memory and the transmission of culture
Knowledge and power in prehistoric societies: orality, memory and the transmission of culture." Australian Archaeology, 82(1), pp. 86–87
The problem with looting: An alternative perspective on antiquities trafficking in Southeast Asia
The 1950s and 1960s constitute a key “moment” in the history of the looting of archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. The emergence in the region at that time of a commodity market for antiquities such as pottery triggered a wave of illicit excavation of archaeological sites. Simultaneous with the trafficking of antiquities out of the Philippines and Thailand into the hands of private collectors and museums in the West during this period and sub…
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