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? 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.

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Reanimating Industrial Spaces

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Hilary Orange

Summary

Reanimating Industrial Spaces explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through approaches which incorporate and critique memory-work.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hilary Orange (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781611321692
• ISBN: 978-1-61132-169-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 11 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Series: UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity