Transcending the Nostalgic: Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation

by George Jaramillo (Editor), Juliane Tomann (Editor)

Overview

Even as the global economy of the twenty-first century continues its dramatic and unpredictable transformations, the landscapes it leaves in its wake bear the indelible marks of their industrial past. Whether in the form of abandoned physical structures, displaced populations, or ecological impacts, they persist in memory and lived experience across the developed world. This collection explores the affective and “more-than-representational” dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, including narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Europe, it examines both the objective and the subjective aspects of societies that, increasingly, produce fewer things and employ fewer workers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800732216
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	10/15/2021
Series:	Making Sense of History , #42
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

George Jaramillo is a Historical Architect working at the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the United States. His work looks at climate change adaptation of historic structures and landscapes particularly due to sea level rise and storms. He uses heritage practices to study elements of industrial, rural and coastal landscapes to enable future development.

Juliane Tomann is Associate Professor for Public History at Regensburg University(Germany). Until 2021 she worked as head of the ‘History in the Public Sphere’ research area in the Imre Kertész Kolleg at Friedrich-Schiller-UniversityJena. Besides her interest in the memory of deindustrialisation in Central Eastern Europe she works on forms of experiential history (historical reenactment), the history of pubic history and gender in public history.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction
George S. Jaramillo and Juliane Tomann

Part I: Postindustrial Ecologies

Chapter 1. War, Ruins and Wildness at Orford Ness 
Sophia Davis 

Chapter 2. Uneven Surfaces: Bodily Engagements with the Postindustrial Wild 
Hilary Orange 

Chapter 3. More-Than-Representational Postmining Landscapes in the Former Coal Regions of Eastern Germany: Between Economic Revitalization and Risk Society  
Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín 

Part II: Performative Narratives

Chapter 4. Performing Imaginary Landscapes: Instagram Communities in the German Ruhr 
Victoria Huszka 

Chapter 5. Reshaping Remnants of the Recent Past in Transforming Swedish Mining Towns 
Jennie Sjöholm 

Chapter 6. KPGT: (Y)Utopia Revisited in a Sugar Mill 
Irena Šentevska 

Chapter 7. The ‘Not-Quite’ and Tuzla’s Invisible Buildings  
Amanda Lawnicki

Part III: Reimagining Futures

Chapter 8. Made in Lincoln: Making Meaning of a Deindustrialized Landscape 
Abigail Hunt 

Chapter 9. The RiMaflow Project: A Laboratory to Study the New Cultural Meanings of Industrial Places   
Dino Gavinelli, Eleonora Mastropietro and Giacomo Zanolin 

Chapter 10. Refining the Heritage Narrative of Post-oil Landscapes 
Carola Hein, Tino Mager, Stephan Hauser 

Epilogue: A Coda for the ‘Left Behind’: Heritage and More-Than-Representational Theories
Emma Waterton

Index

Editorial Reviews

“A rich and valuable contribution to debates around post-industrial landscapes and ruination.” • Andrew Perchard, University of Northumbria

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