Tim Winter

Email: Room: 113 RC Mills Building, A26 Tel: 9036 9543

Current Position:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research interests:
Tim’s various research interests are driven by a desire to advance a more holistic, critically informed analysis of ‘heritage’. Working on Cambodia over a number of years has led to a strong interest in understanding the simultaneous and often contradictory challenges which emerge around heritage and tourism within societies suffering from, or recovering from, periods of armed conflict. In 2009 he will be a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and looking at such issues in relation to Croatia, Sri Lanka and Kashmir.

Tim is also now developing the inter-disciplinary initiative, SOCooLH (Sustaining Our Cool Living Heritage), which examines the architectural designs and social practices of a pre-air-conditioning era in relation to current debates around sustainability and rising energy costs. The project focuses on the Asia Pacific region and is being developed in collaboration with universities in Hawaii, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
More broadly Tim has a general interest in advancing critical, interpretative approaches to heritage. He is working on a book that will examine heritage in relation to post-conflict/disaster reconstruction; urbanization and sustainability; citizenship, the state and cultural rights; postcolonial theory; Asian tourism; Modernity in Asia and Middle East.

See www.postconflictheritage.com

Recent Grants

• 2008
  A$40,000 Research Funding, University of Sydney
  AS20,000 Production Funding for Destination Angkor, Screen Australia
  A$27,000 Conference Funding, Heritage in Asia, Joint Funding National University of Singapore and University of Sydney
  A$10,000 Conference Funding, SOCooLH, University of Sydney
  S$15,000 Conference Funding, SOCooLH, National University of Singapore
  A$5,000 Travel Grant, Rikkyo University.
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  2007
  A$10,000 Various Travel Grants
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  2006
  A$25,000 Research Funding, University of Sydney
  S$20,000 Conference Funding, Primary Investigator, National University of Singapore
  S$10,000 Workshop Funding, Primary Investigator, National University of Singapore
  S$20,000 Conference Funding, Secondary Investigator, National University of Singapore

Keynote/Invited Presentations

• ‘Heritage and Tourism in Asia: a critical approach’ Keynote talk at Tours and Tourists: Exploring Modern Asian Travel Cultures, International Workshop, Vientiane, Laos, 28-30 January 2009. (Funded by Rikkyo University, Tokyo).
• ‘Horizons of Reconstruction: post-conflict Angkor and heritage tourism’, Opening Public Lecture for Balancing Culture, Conservation, and Economic Development: Heritage Tourism in and around the Pacific Rim, US ICOMOS Conference, 18-21 April, 2007, (Funded by Getty Foundation)
• ‘Heritage, tourism and Development: working towards an integrated approach’ International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Angkor, 14th Plenary Session, 28 November, 2007 (UNESCO Cambodia invitation, funded by Aman Resorts)

Other offices held

• Editor: Historic Environment, ICOMOS Australia (refereed journal), See: http://www.icomos.org/australia/
• Expert Member ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Cultural Tourism
• Conference Convenor: SOCooLH (Sustaining Our Cool Living Heritage), International Workshop, Malacca, 27-30 August, 2009
• Conference Convenor: Heritage in Asia: converging forces, conflicting values, International Conference, Singapore, 08-10th January, 2009, Singapore
• Conference Convenor: ‘Of Asian Origin’: Rethinking Tourism In Contemporary Asia, International Conference, 07-09 Sept 2006, Singapore
• Conference Convenor: Questions of Methodology; Researching Tourism in Asia, International Graduate Workshop, 05-06 Sept 2006, Singapore, Co-organised with University of Otago
• Conference Co-convenor: Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia, International Workshop, July 2006, Singapore
• Editorial Board: Siksacakr, Journal of Center for Khmer Studies, Cambodia
• Member of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
• Member of TICCIH (International Committee for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage)

Filmmaking/Exhibitions

• Producer, Writer: Destination Angkor, A Feature length Documentary, (with Tom Zybrycki), currently in Production, initial funding Screen Australia
• Curator: Preah Vihear: Asian heritage on the edge, Photographic exhibition, January 2009, Singapore
• Co-curator: Re-imagining Angkor; a century of images and ephemera, Multi-media exhibition, December 04 – January 05, Foreign Correspondent’s Club, Siem Reap, Cambodia (with Ass. Prof. Penny Edwards, UC Berkeley).

Publications

Books

• Winter, T., Teo, P., and Chang, T.C. (eds) (2009) Asia on Tour: exploring the rise of Asian tourism, London: Routledge
• Winter, T. (2007) Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism; culture, politics and development at Angkor, London: Routledge
• Ollier, L. and Winter, T. eds (2006) Expressions of Cambodia: the Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change. London: Routledge

Book Chapters

• Winter, T. (2009) ‘Post-conflict heritage: expanding the frontiers of reconstruction”’ in Labadi, and Long, C. (eds) Cultural Heritage and Globalisation, London: Routledge
• Winter, T. and Panjabi, S. (2009) ‘Leaving the Buildings Behind: conflict, sovereignty and the values of heritage in Kashmir’, in Logan, W. et al. (ed.) Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights, London: Routledge
• Winter, T., Teo, P. and Chang, T.C., (2008) ‘Introduction: Rethinking Tourism in Asia,’ in Winter, T., Teo, P. and Chang, T.C., (eds) Asia on Tour: exploring the rise of Asian tourism, London: Routledge
• Winter, T. (2008) ‘Destination Asia: rethinking material culture’ in Winter, T., Teo, P. and Chang, T.C., (eds) Asia on Tour: exploring the rise of Asian tourism, London: Routledge
• Winter, T. (2008) ‘Recasting tourism theory, towards an Asian future’ in Winter, T. Teo, P. and Chang, T.C., (eds) Asia on Tour: exploring the rise of Asian tourism, London: Routledge
• Winter, T. (2007) ‘Landscapes in the Living Memory: New Year festivities at Angkor, Cambodia’ in Whelan, Y. and Moore, N., (eds) Heritage, Memory And The Politics Of Space: new perspectives on the cultural landscape, Aldershot: Ashgate
• Winter, T. (2006) ‘When ancient “glory” meets modern “tragedy”: Angkor and the Khmer Rouge in contemporary tourism’ in Ollier, L. and Winter, T. (eds) Expressions of Cambodia: the Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change. London: Routledge
• Winter, T. (2006) ‘Ruining the Dream? The Challenge of Tourism at Angkor’ in Meethan, K. Anderson, A and Miles, S., (eds) Tourism, Representation and Consumption: Narratives of Place and Self, Oxfordshire: CABI
• Winter, T. (2006) ‘Bakheng Tourism: Setting New Standards for Angkor’, Phnom Bakheng Workshop on Public Interpretation, Siem Reap: APSARA and World Monuments Fund.
• Winter, T. (2005) ‘Landscape, Memory and Heritage: New year celebrations at Angkor, Cambodia’ in Harrison, D and Hitchcock, M, (eds) The Politics of World Heritage; negotiating tourism and conservation, London: Channel View Publications (this is republication of Current Issues in Tourism, No. 7 Vols. 4 and 5 above)

Refereed Articles

• Winter, T. (2009) ‘Asian Tourism and the Retreat of Anglo-Western Centrism in Tourism Theory.’ Current Issues in Tourism, Vol. 12
• Winter, T. (2009) ‘The Modernities of Heritage and Tourism: interpretations of an Asian future’, Journal of Heritage Tourism Studies, Vol. 4
• Winter, T. (2008) ‘Post-conflict Heritage and Tourism in Cambodia: the burden of Angkor’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 14 No.6
• Panjabi, S and Winter, T. (2008) ‘Whose land is it anyway?: Conflict and conservation in Kashmir’ Historic Environment, Vol.21 No. 2/3
• Winter, T. (2007) ‘Rethinking Tourism in Asia’ Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 34 No.1 (ATR No.1 Downloaded Article, 1st Qtr, 2007)
• Winter, T. (2004) ‘Global, Local Visions of Angkor; a critical analysis of heritage, place and identity in an age of tourism’ in Historical Environment, Vol. 18. No.2
• Winter, T. (2004) ‘Landscape, Memory and Heritage: New year celebrations at Angkor, Cambodia’ In: Current Issues in Tourism, No. 7 Vols. 4 and 5
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  Winter, T. (2003) ‘Angkor and Tomb Raider: a clash of cultures’, In: Indonesia and the Malay World, Vol. 31 No. 89
• Winter, T. (2002) ‘Angkor meets Tomb Raider: setting the scene’, In: International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 8 No.4

Other publications

• Winter, T. (2009) ‘Heritage and Tourism: making the connections’ in Policies and Financial Mechanisms for Culture in Sustainable Development, Learning Initiative, World Bank, Washington D.C. (refereed)
• Winter, T. (2008) ‘Angkor: Exploring the Layers of History’ in Angkor: Heritage Values and Issues, ed. By R. Mackay and S. Sullivan, Living With Heritage Consultancy Report, Sydney. (refereed)
• Winter, T. (1999) ‘The sociology of tourism’ In: Sociology Review, Vol. 9 No. 1 (non refereed)

Book reviews

• The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity, ed. by B. Graham and P. Howard, Ashgate, Aldershot. Reviewed for European Spatial Research and Policy, forthcoming.
• Raj Rhapsodies: tourism, heritage and the seduction of history ed. by C. Henderson and M. Weisgrau, Ashgate. Reviewed for Current Issues in Tourism, forthcoming
• Angkor, Before and After: a cultural history of the Khmers by David Snellgrove, Orchid Press, Reviewed for Times Higher Educational Supplement, April 2-9, 2005
• Cultural Travel and Migrancy; the artistic representation of globalization in the electronic media of West Java, by Edwin Jurriëns, KITLV Press; Leiden. Reviewed for Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI), December 2005

Appointments and Visiting Fellowships

• Visiting Scholar, University Of Cambridge, UK, April-July 2009
• Visiting Fellow, Melbourne University, November 2008
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Dec.06 – Dec.09
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Nov.04 – Nov.06
• British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cambodia, Dec.03 – Nov.04
• Affiliated Senior Research Fellow, Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2004

Current Graduate Supervision

• Paling, W., Modernity and Mobility and Khmer Identity, PhD, 2008-12
• Lloyd, G., Intangible Heritage and International Law, 2007-11
• Jordan, D., The Politics of Archaeological Mapping, PhD, 2007-11
• Leims, S., UXO and Development in Laos, Honours thesis, 2009

Consultancy

• Workshop Participant: Siem Reap; Urban Development in the Shadow of Angkor, Getty Conservation Institute, Pacific Rim Council on Urban Development, and APSARA Authority, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 26-29 October, 2008
• Workshop Participant: Living With Heritage Values and Issues, Godden Mackay Logan, Heritage Consultants (Sydney), Siem Reap, Cambodia, 16-18 November 2007
• Workshop Participant: Phnom Bakheng Workshop on Public Interpretation organized by the World Monuments Fund, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 04-06 December 2005
• Heritage Site Management Consultant: World Monuments Fund, Cambodia, 2001
• Tourism Management Researcher: Japanese Team for Safeguarding Angkor, Cambodia, 2001
• Workshop Participant: various UNESCO/WMF/APSARA Authority training programmes for Cambodian heritage professionals, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2000-01