Overview
- Industrial heritage is a relatively new are of inquiry within history and memory studies, and this has the potential to be a major work within it
- This book will resonate with the recent surge of interest in the politics, meaning, and aesthetics of postindustrial urban buildings (a.k.a. "ruins porn")
- Storm does not merely theorize on the subject, but delves deep into fascinating examples ranging from urban renewal projects to mining pits to nuclear power plants
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology (PSHST)
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"They are all around us – mines and smelters, nuclear reactors, company towns, brownfields, and other industrial landscapes. Storm asks us to consider the communities that are integral parts of their past, present, and future. She takes us on an original and probing journey to consider the rise and fall of industrial sites, the scars they have created, and the contentious memories they engender as places of work and home, nostalgia, decay, and even rebirth as parks." - Paul Josephson, Professor of Russian and Soviet history, Colby College, USA
'Industrial ruins have traditionally been characterized as a blight, or a scar, on the landscape, and thus dismissed. The significance of industrial sites to social history, and to the experiences of class and labor, are often neglected. Storm addresses this lacuna and presents six richly textured case studies to identify the many differing, and often conflicting, layers of meaning that such sites may have. Storm draws attention to how industrial heritage can offer ways of acknowledging and reflecting on past injustices. In using the metaphor of scar as a processof healing, the book explores the ways in which industrial heritage offers a place from which societies can enter into discussion about the meaning of the past for the present' – Laurajane Smith, Professor, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, The Australian National University
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Book Title: Post-Industrial Landscape Scars
Authors: Anna Storm
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137025999
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-02598-2Published: 23 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43906-5Published: 23 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-02599-9Published: 22 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 227
Topics: European History, Cultural History, History of Science, Modern History, Social History