"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 thepast and in contemporary society. A range of memory-work is also illustrated: from ethnography, oral history, digital technologies, excavation, and archival and documentary research"--
Through 12 case studies based on papers given at the Reanimating Industrial Spaces session at the Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting in Durham, England, in December 2009, and the European Association of Archaeologists meeting in Den Haag, the Netherlands, in September 2010, archaeology, anthropology, and cultural geography scholars from the UK and US examine the relationships between people and former industrial spaces through the concept of memory work. They consider the relationship between industrial heritage and memory, how memory is involved in the process of placemaking in industrial spaces, the strengths and pitfalls of conducting memory work, and what can be learned from cross-disciplinary perspectives and methods. Their case studies look at iron-smelting in Uganda, Puerto Rican sugar mills, concrete factories in Albania, workers' housing in the UK, gold-mining sites in Alaska, abandoned industrial spaces in Europe, the Royal Forest of Dean in the UK, World War II school air raid shelters and gas chambers, and a tin and copper mine in the UK, and themes like heritage interpretation strategies and policies towards preservation, the role of sound, globalization, oral history, and digital technologies and memorialization. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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.
Reanimating Industrial Spaces explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through approaches which incorporate and critique memory-work.
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