Dr Keir Reeves
Monash Fellow
BA (Hons) Mon; BEco (Mon); MA (Melb); PhD (Melb)
Contact details | Research interests | Research supervision | Publications
Dr Keir Reeves is a Monash Research Fellow co-housed in the Tourism Research Unit and the National Centre for Australian Studies. He is currently working on a research project titled Heritage tourism and the historical landscapes of Australia, Asia and the Pacific. He is particularly interested how history tourism and heritage studies can be understood as part of sustainable regional development throughout the regions investigated as part of his fellowship. This is underpinned by a methodological consideration of how a sense of place for visitors to heritage destinations is determined by the interplay between the landscape and visitors experience.
In early 2009 Keir commenced a five-year research intensive Monash Fellowship but frequently gives guest lectures in heritage, heritage tourism in Asia and the Pacific, regional economic development, Australian cultural history and Australian studies at Monash and other Victorian universities.
Research interests
Keir is currently involved in the Places of Pain and Shame Australian Research Council Discovery project with Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University. The findings of this project are presented in the book Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult' Heritage, published by Routledge Press, UK. His Australian Research Council Linkage project funded postdoctoral research investigated the various layers of central Victorian history. The first stage of this research was presented in Keir Reeves and David Nichols Deeper Leads: New approaches in Victorian gold fields history in 2007.
Keir is a member of the Heritage Council of Victoria and is the chairperson of the Maritime Heritage Advisory Committee. He is also involved with the editorial boards of History Australia (book reviews editor with Anna Clark), Sporting Traditions and Australian Historical Studies. He is also currently undertaking a Faculty of Business and Economics pilot project on Grampians wine region with the Grampians Winemakers looking at the intersection of local history, cultural heritage tourism and sustainable regional development. Other current research interests include co-guest editing (contributing) a special issue of the Australian Economic History Review on the nineteenth century southern hemisphere mining rushes and also co-organising Dragon Tails a Chinese-Australian history and heritage tourism conference in October 2009.
Research supervision
A collaborative researcher, Keir is particularly interested in supervising postgraduate research projects in
- history tourism
- Mekong region and Australian history
- historical cultural landscape
- regional studies
- sustainable heritage tourism
Publications
Place, Community and Heritage Tourism in Luang Prabang: Conserving and interpreting the intangible heritage and built environment of an historical cultural landscape, Heritage 2008 - World Heritage and Sustainable Development International Conference,Vila Nova de Foz Côa – Portugal, 7-9 May 2008
‘15 July 1851, Hargreaves discovers gold at Ophir: Australia’s Golden Age’ in Crucial Moments in Australian History edited by Martin Crotty and David Roberts. UNSW Press, Sydney, 2008: 62-73
'Tracking the Dragon Down Under: Chinese Cultural Connections in Gold Rush Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand', Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, Issue 1, no. 5 (2005): 41-66
Collaborative publications
‘Niche Strategies for Small Regional Cities: A Case Study of the Bendigo Chinese Heritage’ Special issue theme: Tourist project planning and implementation, Tourist Recreation Research Vol. 34, 3, 2009 (with Fiona Wheeler, Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost)
'Reworking the Tailings: New Gold Histories and the Cultural Landscape' in Creating White Australia edited by Claire McClisky & Jane Carey. University of Sydney Press: Sydney, 2009 (forthcoming) (with Benjamin W Mountford)
Places Of Pain And Shame: Dealing With 'Difficult' Heritage, London: Routledge, 2009 (Contributing co-editor with William Logan)
‘Villages, Vineyards and Chinese Dragons: Constructing the Heritage of Ethnic Diasporas’ Special issue of Tourism, Culture and Communication (2009) Vol 9, 1-2: 107-114 (with Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing and Fiona Wheeler)
“Healing the Wounds: Heritage Practice at Toul Sleng and Choeung Ek, Cambodia” in Places Of Pain And Shame: Dealing With 'Difficult' Heritage (co-edited with William Logan) London: Routledge, 2009 (article with Colin Long)
Deeper Leads: New approaches in Victorian gold fields history, Ballarat: BHS Publishing 2007 (co-editor with David Nichols)
“Oral Histories of a Layered Landscape: The Rushworth Oral History Project” Public History Review, August (2007): 114-127 (with Rebecca Sanders and G. F. Chisholm)
“Court records & cultural landscapes: Rethinking the Chinese gold seekers in central Victoria”, Provenance, September no. 6 (2007): 1-13 (with Benjamin W. Mountford)
"Beyond a European Protest: Redefining the Chinese Agitation on the Victorian Goldfields," in Eureka: Reappraising an Australian Legend, Alan Mayne(ed), Perth: API, 2006: 155-174 (with Kevin Wong Hoy)
