Reanimating industrial spaces: conducting memory work in post-industrial societies

"Reanimating Industrial Spaces explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through approaches that incorporate and critique memory-work. The chapters in this volume consider four broad questions: What is the relationship between industrial heritage and memory? Ho...

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Weitere Verfasser: Orange, Hilary (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Walnut Creek, Calif. Left Coast Press 2015
Schriftenreihe:Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London 66
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Zusammenfassung:"Reanimating Industrial Spaces explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through approaches that incorporate and critique memory-work. The chapters in this volume consider four broad questions: What is the relationship between industrial heritage and memory? How is memory involved in the process of place-making in regards to industrial spaces? What are the strengths and pitfalls of conducting memory-work? What can be learned from cross-disciplinary perspectives and methods? The contributors have created a set of diverse case studies (including iron-smelting in Uganda, Puerto Rican sugar mills and concrete factories in Albania) which examine differing socio-economic contexts and approaches to industrial spaces both in the past and in contemporary society. A range of memory-work is also illustrated: from ethnography, oral history, digital technologies, excavation, and archival and documentary research"..
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:254 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9781611321685