Dr Keir Reeves - Researcher Profile

Keir Reeves

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Department of Management
Monash University, Caulfield

Biography

Dr Keir Reeves is a Senior Monash Research Fellow and Director of the Australia & International Tourism Research Unit at the National Centre for Australian Studies. His research concentrates on economic and cultural history, heritage studies and regional studies and tourism. Keir is the historian member of the Heritage Council of Victoria and is the chairperson of the Maritime Heritage Advisory Committee and is a member of the History Council of Victoria. He is also involved with the editorial board of Australian Historical Studies.

 

Dr Keir Reeves, a cultural historian and heritage practitioner, is a Senior Monash Research Fellow and Director of the Australia & International Tourism Research Unit at 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. Keir 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.

Prior to joining Monash University Keir lectured in public and Australian history and heritage at the University of Melbourne. In 2005 he was awarded an Australian Research Council postdoctoral research fellowship (industry). 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. His current ARC projects concentrate on the intersection of war heritage, history and memory. He is the current director of the Australia & International Tourism Research Unit (AITRU) at the National Centre for Australia Studies.

Keir’s current primary research interest is in interrogating the relationship between history, tourism heritage and landscape in Asia and the Pacific. More recently he has concentrated on economic history and regional development as well as presenting findings on long term research projects of tourism and heritage in Asia, regional Australia and Chinese Australian history. He was a chief investigator on the Remembering 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 industry postdoctoral research fellowship investigated the various layers of central Victorian history. The first stage of this research project titled was presented in Keir Reeves and David Nichols Deeper Leads: New approaches in Victorian gold fields history in 2007.

 

Keir is part of the Bruce Scates led, NCAS hosted, ARC Linkage project Anzac Day at home and abroad: a centenary history of Australia's national day. He is also a CI on Curtin University led Linkage project researching social capital and multiculturalism and indigenous participation in football. Keir is also currently involved as a chief investigator in the Bruce Scates led, NCAS hosted, Australian Research Council Discovery project titled Revisiting Australia's war: international perspectives on heritage, memory and ANZAC pilgrimages to the cemeteries, sites and battlefields of World War Two (WW2) where his specific role is to investigate the intersection between history and heritage when evaluating Anzac pilgrimage sites of the Second World War.

 

 

 

Research & Supervision Interests

     

    Keir’s current primary research interest is in interrogating the relationship between history, tourism heritage and landscape in Asia and the Pacific. More recently he has concentrated on economic history and regional development as well as presenting findings on long term research projects of tourism and heritage in Asia, regional Australia and Chinese Australian history. He was a chief investigator on the Remembering 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 industry postdoctoral research fellowship investigated the various layers of central Victorian history. The first stage of this research project titled was presented in Keir Reeves and David Nichols Deeper Leads: New approaches in Victorian gold fields history in 2007.

     

    Keir is part of the Bruce Scates led, NCAS hosted, ARC Linkage project Anzac Day at home and abroad: a centenary history of Australia's national day. He is also a CI on Curtin University led Linkage project researching social capital and multiculturalism and indigenous participation in football. Keir is also currently involved as a chief investigator in the Bruce Scates led, NCAS hosted, Australian Research Council Discovery project titled Revisiting Australia's war: international perspectives on heritage, memory and ANZAC pilgrimages to the cemeteries, sites and battlefields of World War Two (WW2) where his specific role is to investigate the intersection between history and heritage when evaluating Anzac pilgrimage sites of the Second World War.

     

Keywords

Pacific Studies, Memory of War, history, heritage, tourism, regional development

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY - HISTORY
Institution: The University of Melbourne
Year awarded: 2006
MASTER OF ARTS
Institution: The University Of Melbourne
Year awarded: 2001
BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1996
BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONOURS
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1996

Publications

Book Chapters

Reeves, K., Wheeler, F., Laing, J., Frost, W., 2011, Chinese mining heritage and tourism in the goldfields of the Pacific Rim, in Mining Heritage and Tourism: A Global Synthesis, eds Michael V Conlin and Lee Jolliffe, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 23-32.

Reeves, K., McDonald, C., 2011, Culturally mapping the Cradle Valley: Tasmanian outback landscapes and sustainable communities in the present day, in Outside Country: Histories of Inland Australia, eds Alan Mayne and Stephen Atkinson, Wakefield Press, Kent Town SA, pp. 267-285.

Wheeler, F., Laing, J., Frost, L., Reeves, K., Frost, W., 2011, Outlaw nations: Tourism, the frontier and national identities, in Tourism and National Identities: An International Perspective, eds Elspeth Frew and Leanne White, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 151-163.

Frost, W., Laing, J., Wheeler, F., Reeves, K., 2010, Coffee culture, heritage and destination image: Melbourne and the Italian model, in Coffee Culture, Destinations and Tourism, eds Lee Jolliffe, Channel View Publications, Bristol UK, pp. 99-110.

Reeves, K., 2010, Echoes on a cultural landscape: Glimpses of Chinese community life in Castlemaine, in Gold Tailings: Forgotten Histories of Family and Community on the Central Victorian Goldfields, eds Charles Fahey and Alan Mayne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 178-195.

Reeves, K., 2009, 15 July 1851 - Hargreaves discovers gold at Ophir: Australia's 'golden age', in Turning Points in Australian History, eds Martin Crotty & David Andrew Roberts, UNSW Press, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 62-73.

Long, C., Reeves, K.J., 2009, 'Dig a hole and bury the past in it' - Reconciliation and heritage of genocide in Cambodia, in Places of Pain and Shame - Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage', eds William Logan & Keir Reeves, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 68-81.

Reeves, K.J., Nichols, D.E., 2009, 'No less than a palace': Kew Asylum, its planned surrounds and its present-day residents, in Places of Pain and Shame - Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage', eds William Logan & Keir Reeves, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 247-262.

Logan, W.S., Reeves, K.J., 2009, Remembering places of pain and shame, in Places of Pain and Shame - Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage', eds William Logan & Keir Reeves, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 1-14.

Mountford, B., Reeves, K.J., 2009, Reworking the tailings: New gold histories and the cultural landscape, in Creating White Australia, eds Jane Carey and Claire McLisky, Sydney University Press, University of Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 23-40.

Nichols, D., MacKinnon, D., Reeves, K.J., 2007, Goldfields asylums: Anxieties, evasions and erasures, in Deeper Leads - New Approaches to Victorian Goldfields History, eds Keir Reeves and David Nichols, Ballarat Heritage Services, Ballarat Vic Australia, pp. 39-62.

Laing, J.H., Wheeler, F.G., Reeves, K., Frost, W., Weiler, B.V., 2007, Interpreting the Bendigo Chinese heritage precinct, in Deeper Leads: New Approaches to Victorian Goldfields History, eds Keir Reeves and David Nichols, Ballarat Heritage Services Publishing, Ballarat Vic Australia, pp. 203-223.

May, A.J., Elkner, C., Reeves, K.J., 2007, Taking the rushes on line: The eGold project, a digital encyclopedia, in Deeper Leads: New Approaches to Victorian Goldfields History, eds Keir Reeves and David Nichols, Ballarat Heritage Services, Ballarat Vic Australia, pp. 67-83.

Reeves, K.J., Hoy, K.W., 2006, Beyond a European protest: Reappraising Chinese agency on the Victorian goldfields, in Eureka: Reappraising an Australian Legend, eds Alan Mayne, API Network, Perth WA Australia, pp. 153-174.

Journal Articles

Frost, W., Laing, J.H., Reeves, K.J., Wheeler, F.G., 2012, A golden connection: Exploring the challenges of developing interpretation strategies for a Chinese heritage precinct on the central Victorian goldfields, Historic Environment [P], vol 24, issue 1, Australia ICOMOS, Burwood, Victoria, Australia, pp. 35-40.

Scates, B.C., Frances, R., Reeves, K.J., Bongiorno, F., Crotty, M., Knapman, G.L., Seal, G.P., Becker, A., Reeves, A.P., Soutphommasane, T.E., Blackburn, K.P., Clarke, S.J., Stanley, P., Hoskins, A., Winter, J., Bridge, C., James, L.K., Wheatley, R.K., Riches, L.K., McCosker, A., Sleight, S.P., 2012, Anzac Day at home and abroad: towards a history of Australia's national day, History Compass [P], vol 10, issue 7, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 523-536.

Gorman, S.E., Reeves, K.J., 2012, Managing diversity: Reviewing rule 30 and the implications of the racial vilification laws in the Australian football league since 1995, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues [P], vol 15, issue 2, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, Australia, pp. 14-22.

Reeves, K.J., 2012, Reviewing Chinese-Australian heritage: History, people and place, local and international, Historic Environment [P], vol 24, issue 1, Council for the Historic Environment, Australia, pp. 2-6.

Reeves, K., Eklund, E., Reeves, A., Scates, B., Peel, V., 2011, Broken Hill: rethinking the significance of the material culture and intangible heritage of the Australian labour movement, International Journal of Heritage Studies [P], vol 17, issue 4, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 301-317.

McConville, C., Reeves, K., 2011, Chinese places: ethnography and landscape, Historic Environment [P], vol 23, issue 3, Council for the Historic Environment, Australia, pp. 24-29.

Reeves, K., McConville, C., 2011, Cultural landscape and goldfield heritage: Towards a land management framework for the historic South-West Pacific gold mining landscapes, Landscape Research [P], vol 36, issue 2, Routledge, UK, pp. 191-207.

Reeves, K., Khoo, T., 2011, Dragon tails: Re-interpreting Chinese Australian history, Australian Historical Studies [P], vol 42, issue 1, Routledge, Australia, pp. 4-9.

Williams, D., Reeves, K., 2011, Made in China: Chinese-Australian heritage places, objects an stories, Historic Environment [P], vol 23, issue 3, ICOMOS, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 2-5.

Reeves, K., Mountford, B., 2011, Sojourning and settling: Locating Chinese Australian history, Australian Historical Studies [P], vol 42, issue 1, Routledge, Australia, pp. 111-125.

Reeves, K., Long, C., 2011, Unbearable pressures on paradise? Tourism and heritage management in Luang Prabang, a World Heritage Site, Critical Asian Studies [P], vol 43, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 3-22.

Reeves, K., Frost, L., Fahey, C., 2010, Integrating the historiography of the nineteenth-century gold rushes, Australian Economic History Review [P], vol 50, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Richmond Vic Australia, pp. 111-128.

Reeves, K., 2010, Sojourners or a new diaspora? Economic implications of the movement of Chinese miners to the south-west Pacific goldfields, Australian Economic History Review [P], vol 50, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Richmond Vic Australia, pp. 178-192.

Wheeler, F.G., Reeves, K.J., Laing, J.H., Frost, W., 2009, Niche strategies for small regional cities: A case study of the Bendigo Chinese heritage precinct plan, Tourism Recreation Research [P], vol 34, issue 3, Centre for Tourism Research and Development, Lucknow India, pp. 295-306.

Frost, W., Reeves, K.J., Laing, J.H., Wheeler, F.G., 2009, Villages, vineyards, and Chinese dragons: Constructing the heritage of ethnic diasporas, Tourism, Culture and Communication [P], vol 9, issue 1-2, Cognizant Communication Corp., USA, pp. 107-114.

Reeves, K.J., Mountford, B., 2007, Court records & cultural landscapes: Rethinking the Chinese gold seekers in central Victoria, Provenance (Online) [P], vol 6, Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 23-38.

Reeves, K.J., Sanders, E., Chisholm, G., 2007, Oral histories of a layered landscape: The rushworth oral history project, Public History Review [E], vol 14, Professional Historians Association NSW Inc, Leichhardt NSW Australia, pp. 114-127.

Reeves, K., 2006, Goldfields Settler or Frontier Rogue, Provenance (Online) [P], vol 5, issue September, Public Records Office Victoria, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-13.

Reeves, K.J., 2004, A songster, a sketcher and the Chinese on central Victoria's Mount Alexander diggings: case studies in cultural complexity during the second half of the nineteenth century, Journal of Australian Colonial History [P], vol 6, University of New England, School of Classics, History and Religion, Australia, pp. 175-191.

Reeves, K.J., 2003, Goldfields settler or frontier rogue? The trial of James Acoy and the Chinese on the Mount Alexander diggings, Provenance (Online) [P], vol 5, Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 18-30.

Reeves, K.J., 2003, Historical neglect of an enduring Chinese community, Traffic (Univeristy of Melbourne) [P], vol 3, University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association, Parkville Vic Australia, pp. 53-77.

Conference Proceedings

Reeves, K.J., Laing, J.H., 2009, A golden connection: Exploring the challenge of developing heritage interpretation strategies for a tourism precinct on the central Victorian goldfields, Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Academy for Heritage Management Conference - Urban Heritage and Tourism: Challenges and Opportunities, 01 December 2009 to 03 December 2009, Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau, China, pp. 383-391.

Laing, J.H., Reeves, K.J., 2009, Exploring issues of authenticity with respect to the development of the Bendigo Chinese Heritage Precinct, Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Academy for Heritage Management Conference - Urban Heritage and Tourism: Challenges and Opportunities, 01 December 2009 to 03 December 2009, Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau China, pp. 189-197.

Reeves, K.J., 2008, Place, Community and Heritage Tourism in Luang Prabang, Conserving and interpreting the intangible heritage and built environment of an historical cultural landscape, Proceedings of Heritage 2008: World Heritage and Sustainable Development, 7 May 2008 to 9 May 2008, Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, Portugal, pp. 311-318.

Reeves, K.J., 2008, Rethinking the intangible heritage and built environment of a gold fields region: A case study of the Castlemaine and its Diggings National Heritage Park, Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference, 5 February 2008 to 7 February 2008, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, pp. 1-10.

Community Service

Keir is the historian member of the Heritage Council of Victoria, this is a Governor-in-Council miniserial appointment. He is the chairperson of the Maritime Heritage Advisory Committee and is a member of the History Council of Victoria. He is also involved with the editorial board of Australian Historical Studies. Keir is an active member of Australia ICOMOS and is a co-convener of the Victoria ICOMOS  heritage mentoring scheme.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
'Anzac Nations': the politics of the Anzac Memory between New Zealand and Australia.
Supervisors:
Reeves, K (Joint), Scates, B (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
'Teaching Anzac' .
Supervisors:
Reeves, K (Joint), Scates, B (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
A Day to Remember? From holy day to political protests Anzac Day 1955 - 1985 .
Supervisors:
Reeves, K (Joint), Scates, B (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Creative cuisine creating futures? Social development,'responsible tourism' and cultural heritage in Southeast Asia .
Supervisors:
Reeves, K (Main), Laing, J (Associate), Sobocinska, A (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
From Tasmania to the top end: An exploration into the meaning and significance of Anzac Day in regional Australia.
Supervisors:
Reeves, K (Joint), Scates, B (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Kokoda and Pilgrimage.
Supervisors:
Reeves, K (Joint), Scates, B (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Progressive Rebels or Boy's Own Adventure? The 1935 Australian Cricket tour of India; breaking down social and racial barriers.
Supervisors:
Reeves, K (Main), Hocking, J (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Tourism and livelihoods: examining micro level impacts of tourism at the periphery in Vanuatu and Fiji.
Supervisors:
Mair, J (Main), Reeves, K (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Kelly, R.
Program of Study:
From Pilgrimage to Patriotism - Exploring changing visitor attitudes to Gallipoli and Kokoda.. (Masters) 2010.
Supervisors:
Reeves, K (Main), Heenan, T (Associate).