Melbourne S Monuments

A guide to the public statuary of Melbourne, based on two walks around the inner city. Many public monuments are often just accepted as part of the scene, but each statue or memorial has a story to tell whether about the sculptor, or the person or event it commemorates, and all of them represent a small piece of Melbourne history.

Dark Tourism, including visitation to places such as murder sites, battlefields and cemeteries is a growing phenomenon, as well as an emergent area of scholarly interest. Despite this interest, the intersecting domains of dark tourism and place identity have been largely overlooked in the academic literature and this book aims to fill this void. The three main themes of Visitor Motivation, Destination Management and Place Interpretation are addressed in this book from both a demand and supply perspective by examining a variety of case studies from around the world. This edited volume takes the dark tourism discussion to another level by reinforcing the critical intersecting domains of dark tourism and place identity and, in particular, highlighting the importance of understanding this connection for visitors and destination managers. Written by leading academics in the area, this stimulating volume of 19 chapters will be valuable reading for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in a range of discipline areas; researchers and academics interested in dark tourism; and, other interested stakeholders including those in the tourism industry, government bodies and community groups.

Monument for the flooding of Royal Park is the elaboration of the video work of the same title into the form of a book. This video work evolved through a Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria and was exhibited at Federation Square in the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture in November 2008, in which it was awarded the second prize (see www.tomn.net/projects/2008_03.htm). The book Monument for the flooding of Royal Park comprises sequences of historical photographs of various Burke and Wills monuments in parallel to a text which describes the imaginary monument - a temporary blanketing of Royal Park in a red field of nardoo - which is the proposition of the book. Monument for the flooding of Royal Park has evolved as part of a body of work engaging 19th-century Melbourne histories, and specifically the 'leakage' of these histories into the present. It takes as its narrative subject an encounter between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal figures, in this case around nardoo and its use as food. The work is a meditation on this encounter, its fatality, but also on its more hopeful possibilities. In both works, historical memory is an imaginary presence in the city's life, but also figured as yet-to-come. Monument for the flooding of Royal Park is also a meditation on the nature of monuments. The work's formal character - concentrating meaning in the invisible, fleeting appearance, dispersal across a horizontal plane, and the compactness and portability of the book - sets itself against the permanence, weight, and unequivocal declaration of the 19th-century monument. However, the work also follows its 19th-century models. Its implicit subject draws upon history as parable, not one of heroic inspiration, but rather interrogative ambivalence: how might our society, built on colonial occupation, inhabit this place in a new and sustainable way?

In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone. The work draws on a range of pertinent, current theories that consider materiality, assemblages, networks, phenomenology, resource and extraction geographies, memorialisation, maintenance and repair, place identity, skill, sensation and affect, haunting and the vitalism of the non-human. In appealing to the general reader, academics and students, this book provides a highly readable account, replete with evocative examples and fascinating historical and contemporary stories about stone in Melbourne.

This book charts the Shrine's history from the first fatalities of the Gallipoli landing to the present day.