Constructing Industrial Pasts: Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation

Published by Berghahn Books 2019

Constructing Industrial Pasts

Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation

Edited by: Stefan Berger

Volume 38 in the series Making Sense of History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789202915

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About this book

Since the 1960s, nations across the “developed world” have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization. In regions in which previously dominant industries faced crises or have disappeared altogether, industrial heritage offers a fascinating window into the phenomenon’s cultural dimensions. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches and straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle.

Author / Editor information

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and directs the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum. He is also Chairman of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University in the UK. Before taking up his current position in Germany in 2011, he held the position of Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester.

Reviews

“The 15 case studies are written to a uniformly high standard and provide a consistent approach to investigating each context's local cultural identity, which is increasingly important to maintain and acknowledge in this age of rapid globalization and homogenization of identity and economics. This analysis of specific regional examples of post-industrial history and the remembrance of an often romanticized, yet harsh, industrial identity will be of wide academic and regional interest…Recommended.” • Choice

“This collection of well-focused essays takes an original approach to a subject of very wide interest. It has substantial cross-disciplinary appeal.” • Chris Wrigley, Nottingham University

“Constructing Industrial Pasts is a timely volume on post-industrial history and the processes and politics of remembrance. It covers a richly detailed set of case studies and makes an invaluable contribution to the field.” • Denis Byrne, Western Sydney University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures, Maps and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Preconditions for the Making of an Industrial Past: Comparative Perspectives Stefan Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1 ‘Sooty Manchester’ (Re)Presenting an Urban-Industrial Landscape Paul Pickering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
CHAPTER 2 Where Is ‘Red Clydeside’? Industrial Heritage, Working-Class Culture and Memory in the Glasgow Region Arthur McIvor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
CHAPTER 3 Industrial Heritage as Place Making: The Case of Wales Bella Dicks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
CHAPTER 4 The Steel Industry in Welsh History and Heritage Louise Miskell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
CHAPTER 5 Cornish Mining Heritage and Cornish Identity: Images, Representations and Narratives Hilary Orange Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
CHAPTER 6 Industrial Heritage and the Remaking of Class Identity: Are We All Middle Class Now? Laurajane Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
CHAPTER 7 The Agents of Industrial Heritage in the Midst of Structural Transformation of the Latrobe Valley, Australia Erik Eklund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
CHAPTER 8 ‘Hardly a Cause for Tears’ Job Insecurity and Occupational Psychology Culture in Italy – Oral Narratives from the Falck Steelworks in Sesto San Giovanni, Milan Roberta Garruccio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
CHAPTER 9 Between Dream and Nightmare: Political Conventions of the Industrial Past in the North of France Marion Fontaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
CHAPTER 10 Memory Culture and Identity Constructions in the Ruhr Valley in Germany Stefan Berger and Jana Golombek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
CHAPTER 11 Sounds of Decline Industrial Echoes in Asturian Music Rubén Vega García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
CHAPTER 12 The Coal-Environment Nexus: How Nostalgic Identity Burdens Heritage in Romania’s Jiu Valley David A. Kideckel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
CHAPTER 13 A Special Kind of Cultural Heritage: The Remembrance of Workers’ Life in Contemporary Hungary – Case Study of Ózd Tibor Valuch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
CHAPTER 14 Ruins for Politics: Selling Industrial Heritage in Postsocialist China’s Rust Belt Tong Lam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
CHAPTER 15 The Heritage of the Chinese Eastern Railway: Symbol of Colonization and International Cooperation Zhao Xin and Qu Xiaofan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
CONCLUSION Narrativizations of an Industrial Past: Labour, the Environment and the Construction of Space in Comparative Perspective Stefan Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 329
Keywords: Industrial Heritage; Deindustrialization; Structural Economic Transformation; 1960s to Present Day

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Published: September 1, 2019
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