Susan Ashley

Northumbria University, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Emeritus

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Susan Ashley is now a retired Associate Professor in Arts at Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK. AHRC PI 2020-22 (Multi)Cultural Organisational Archives. AHRC Leadership Fellow 2017-19: (Multi)Cultural Heritage: New Perspectives on Public Culture, Identity and Citizenship. She is interested in the 'public' nature of heritage knowledge production, representation and management. Her current research studies how ethnic and immigrant groups self-represent using grassroots museums, arts activities, archives and public mediations. Dr. Ashley holds a PhD in communication and culture from York University, Toronto, Canada. She also spent more than 20 years working for newspapers and for cultural and heritage institutions across Canada.
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https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/research-areas/art-and-design/multi-cultural-heritage/
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S.Ashley, D.Stone A Fellowship of Heritage

We discuss my AHRC Leadership Fellowship in heritage studies 2017-2019. The project sought to und... more We discuss my AHRC Leadership Fellowship in heritage studies 2017-2019. The project sought to understand the ways that non-mainstream cultural organisations led by Black and minority ethnic members engage with ideas of ‘heritage’. The research looked at the structures, practices and people who make these organisations work, and their issues, challenges and impacts in the North East of England. The project brought together diverse artists and community organisers, mostly women, in dynamic, exciting and sometimes awkward cultural exchanges. A fundamental task throughout the project was facing subject and power positions when undertaking this collaborative and dialogic process with minoritised participants, especially given my position as a white middle class academic. The commitment of my partners to come together in fellowship and take on this heritage-thinking work was to me, the real impact of this project.

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OPEN ACCESS - Whose Heritage? Challenging Race and Identity in Stuart Hall’s Post-nation Britain

by Susan Ashley and Degna Stone

Whose Heritage? Challenging Race and Identity in Stuart Hall’s Post-nation Britain, 2023

This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is ‘heritage’ in Britain as a globalised, ... more This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is ‘heritage’ in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan ‘post-nation’. It takes its inspiration from the foundational work of public intellectual Stuart Hall (1932-2014). Hall was instrumental in calling out embedded elitist conceptions of ‘The Heritage’ of Britain. The book’s authors challenge us to reconsider what is valued about Britain’s past, its culture and its citizens. Populist discourses around the world, including Brexit and ‘culture war’ declarations in the UK, demonstrate how heritage and ideas of the past are mobilised in racist politics. The multidisciplinary chapters of this book offer critical inspections of these politics, and dig deeply into the problems of theory, policy and practice in today’s academia, society and heritage sector. The volume challenges the lack of action since Hall rebuked ‘The Heritage’ twenty years ago. The authors featured here are predominantly Black Britons, academics and practitioners engaged in culture and heritage, spurred by the killing of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement to contest racist practices and structures that support them.
https://www.routledge.com/Whose-Heritage-Challenging-Race-and-Identity-in-Stuart-Halls-Post-nation/Ashley-Stone/p/book/9780367552732

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