Kin, fictive kin and strategic movement
Working class heritage of the Upper Burnett
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5701211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Prangnell (0000-0001-6915-8277, The University of Queensland, corresponding author), Geraldine Mate (0000-0002-0809-6559, b The Workshops Rail Museum , Queensland, Australia) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 318-330 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2011.577965 |
| OpenAlex | W2114740116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 31 |
The Upper Burnett district of southeast Queensland, Australia is a landscape of working class resilience in the face of natural and institutional oppression. The Upper Burnett was the site of numerous small goldmining towns throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Physically, most of these towns now survive only as archaeological remnants, yet both the tangible heritage elements and the intangible forms of labour heritage, such as stories in the landscape and of movement between places, contribute to the shared and continued attachment of the Burnett community to its mining history. Historical archaeological, sociological and landscape studies, including long-term projects working with descendents of the mining families, have provided detailed insight into the palimpsest of meanings applied to the social landscape of the working class inhabitants. Oral history, documentary and archaeological research have been conducted on the townships of Paradise, Mount Shamrock, Monal and Cania. The cultural landscape of these towns can be seen as a complex heritage of working class pastimes, networks of labour through kin and fictive kin relationships, strategic movement across the region and the interaction between communities. Although the local museums tend to memorialise the physical heritage of the goldmining through collecting and displaying the impressive material culture (such as stampers, berdan pans, mine wheels, etc.), it is the stories, meanings, diaries, and the continued attachments to these places today that play the larger role in the remembering of the working class past
Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Kinship · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Working class · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Mining and Resource Management
Uses of Heritage
The Archaeology of inequality
Those of Little Note
“Social Workers”
Building a Working Class Archaeology
Australasian Historical Archaeology
The mining camp as community
Gender and community structure on Australian colonial goldfields
Social approaches to the archaeology and anthropology of mining
An Archaeology of Social Space
Archaeology as Political Action
Historical Archaeology
Children in Paradise
Building a Working-Class Archaeology
Social Approaches to an Industrial Past
The Archaeology of Class in Urban America
Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
Remembering an Industrial Landscape
History in Two Dimensions or Three? Working Class Responses to History
History, Memory and Heritage
From the Dreaming to 1915
Dolly's Creek
The Gilded Age and Working-Class Industrial Communities
Where Does Memory Reside, and Why Isn't It History
Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Archaeology
The Abuses of Memory
The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,62 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |