Industrial Memory in North East England - Negotiating Northernness

Industrial memory in North-East England examines how the region's industrial myth and memory have been articulated in the renegotiation of northernness. The book offers a critical contextualisation of the concept of northernness and the English North, and introduces the concept of the PopCultural Portfolio, a mixed-methods approach to conjunctural analysis in cultural and memory studies.

The book provides six richly illustrated case studies to demonstrate the practical application of cultural studies' expansive and inclusive understanding of texts, bringing together materials from North East football, folk, indie and exhibition culture to establish how the North East's industrial past continues to be remembered and functionalised as industrial memory. In turn, the conjunctural analysis demonstrates how industrial memory is articulated and mythologised as north(east)erness in contemporary popular culture.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Allen, Allen Victoria
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781526174260
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-7426-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Northumberland, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Material Culture, Social classes, Football variants and related games, North and North East England, Cultural and media studies, Sunderland and Wearside