Skip to content

Dr Rodney Harrison

The Open University

Dr Rodney Harrison is a lecturer in heritage studies at The Open University.

Syndicate content Latest pages by Dr Rodney Harrison

See all Heritage Studies contributors
See all The Open University contributors

Rodney Harrison

Articles [1]

Browse all OpenLearn articles by Dr Rodney Harrison

What is heritage?Jupiter Images

By Dr Rodney Harrison (The Open University)

23 June 2009

Heritage is constantly changing in the light of the present, explains Rodney Harrison.  Read more : What is heritage?

2.857145
You haven't rated. Average rating 2.9 out of 5, based on 7 ratings
7 votes   3 comments

Research [10]

Browse Dr Rodney Harrison’s latest research from Open Research Online

Graves-Brown, Paul; Harrison, Rodney and Piccini, Angela eds. (2013). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology. Oxford University Press (in press).

Harrison, Rodney (2012). Heritage: Critical Approaches. Routledge (In Press).

Harrison, Rodney (2012). Forgetting to remember, remembering to forget: Late modern heritage practices, sustainability and the ‘crisis’ of accumulation. International Journal of Heritage Studies (in press).

Harrison, Rodney; Byrne, Sarah and Clarke, Anne eds. (2012). Reassembling the Collection: Ethnographic Museums and Indigenous Agency. SAR Press (In Press).

Harrison, Rodney (2012). Reassembling Ethnographic Museum Collections. In: Harrison, Rodney; Byrne, Sarah and Clarke, Anne eds. Reassembling the Collection: Ethnographic Museums and Indigenous Agency. SAR Press (In Press).

Harrison, Rodney (2012). Assembling and Governing Cultures ‘At Risk’: Centers of Collection and Calculation, from Ethnographic Museums to UNESCO World Heritage Lists. In: Harrison, Rodney; Byrne, Sarah and Clarke, Anne eds. Reassembling the Collection: Ethnographic Museums and Indigenous Agency. SAR Press (In Press).

Harrison, Rodney (2011). ‘Counter-mapping’ heritage, communities and places in Australia and the UK. In: Schofield, John and Szymanski, Rosy eds. Local Heritage, Global Context: Cultural Perspectives on Sense of Place. Heritage, Culture and Identity. Ashgate, pp. 79–98.

Harrison, Rodney (2011). Surface assemblages. Towards an archaeology in and of the present. Archaeological Dialogues, 18(02), pp. 141–161.

Byrne, Sarah; Clarke, Anne; Harrison, Rodney and Torrence, Robin eds. (2011). Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum. One World Archaeology. New York: Springer.

Harrison, Rodney (2011). Consuming colonialism: curio-seller's catalogues, souvenir objects and indigenous agency in Oceania. In: Byrne, Sarah; Clarke, Anne; Harrison, Rodney and Torrence, Robin eds. Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum. One World Archaeology. New York: Springer, pp. 55–82.

Ratings [0]

Browse all OpenLearn articles rated by Dr Rodney Harrison

No ratings yet

Tags

This user has not added any tags yet.

You could create your own personal tag cloud if you were logged in.

Comments [3]

Read what people are saying about Dr Rodney Harrison’s OpenLearn articles

What is heritage?

Comment posted by clinwrite

13 Jan 2010

The political use of heritage may be wide spread in the Anglo-Saxon world, but I feel this is much less true of German. Germany was only a nation state from 1871 until the end of the 2nd WW and has... Read more : What is heritage?

What is heritage?

Comment posted by carolineb

28 Sep 2009

My Mother was brought up in Strathy Scotland,her parents passed away when she was very young.On a recent holiday to Scotland we visited Strathy and the two houses she was brought up in were still... Read more : What is heritage?

What is heritage?

Comment posted by elioleo

17 Sep 2009

elioleo has started a thread discussing What is heritage?. Read more : What is heritage?

Biography

Read Dr Rodney Harrison’s biography.

Dr Rodney Harrison is a lecturer in heritage studies at The Open University. He trained as an archaeologist in Australia, and has experience teaching, researching and working on heritage projects in the UK, US and Australia.
He is currently course team chair of the new course Understanding global heritage. Rodney is the author Shared Landscapes (published by UNSW Press) and editor of Understanding the politics of heritage (to published by Manchester University Press in 2010) and co-editor of The Heritage Reader (published by Routledge).

About OpenLearn

Hide

Explore

Try

Study

OU Courses

Open University

OpenLearn Now

Hide
Modern love considered Creative Commons Image Capt Kodak under CC BY-NC 2.0 licence

Why does love hurt?

Bucking the trends
OU on TV and radio this week

Tag Clouds

Hide

Site Cloud

List View Animated Less More
What are Tag Clouds?

My Cloud

Discover the latest about your passions - Sign In or Register and start a personal tag cloud.

What are Tag Clouds?
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/sites/all/themes/ole/flash/tagcloud.swf

Creative Commons License Except for third party materials and otherwise stated, content on this site is made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence

/openlearn/sites/all/themes/ole/