Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage

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All industrialization is deeply rooted within the specific geographies in which it took place, and echoes of previous industrialization continue to reverberate in these places through to the modern day. This book investigates the overlap of memory and the impacts of industrialization within today’s communities and the senses of place and heritage that grew alongside and in reaction to the growth of mines, mills, and factories. The economic and social change that accompanied the unchecked accumulation of wealth and exploitation of labor as the industrial revolution spread throughout the world has numerous lasting impacts on the socioeconomics of today. Likewise, the planet itself is now reeling. The memory and heritage of these processes reach into the communities that owe the industrial revolution their existence, but these populations also often suffered adverse impacts to their health and environment through the large-scale and rapid extraction of natural resources and production of goods. Through the themes of memory, community, and place; working post-industrial landscapes; and the de-romanticization of industrial pasts, this book examines the endurance and decline of these communities, the spatial processes of industrial byproducts, and the memory and heritage of industrialization and its legacies. While based in the traditions of geography, this collection also draws upon and will be of great interest to students and scholars of cultural anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, architecture, civil engineering, and heritage, memory, museum, and tourism studies. Using global examples, the authors provide a uniquely geographic understanding to industrial heritage across the spaces, places, and memories of industrial development. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: geographies of post-industrial memory, place, and heritage Part 1 Constructing post-industrial communities: place, memory, and practice 2 Notes from a shrinking market: ‘anticipatory nostalgia’ and place-making in the midst of change 3 Asansol: unfinished biography of a Raj Era railway town: explorations in heritage practice in post-India 4 Everyday resonances of industrial pasts: considering lived and affective memories in ex-coal mining landscapes in a South Wales valley Part 2 Post-industrial working landscapes 5 Unearthing community identities at the National Coal Mining Museums of Great Britain 6 Contamination as artifact: waste and the presence of absence at the Trout Lake concentrator, Coleraine, Minnesota 7 Geocreativity: place rooted social engagement in industrial ruins – the case of Konvent, Spain 8 Dramatising deindustrialisation: experiential authority, temporality and embodiment in a play about nuclear decommissioning Part 3 De-romanticizing industrial heritage 9 Agrarian ruins of the Khmer Rouge: the post-industrial landscapes of a rural economy 10 The cultural necrotechnologies of capital and the production of (post) industrial capital punishment 11 Industrial heritage in an era of climate catastrophe: contamination as heritage 12 Amgueddfa’r Gogledd: slate, slavery, and transatlantic labor in the National Slate Museum Index