1st Edition

Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

Edited By Christian Wicke, Stefan Berger, Jana Golombek Copyright 2018
256 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Heritage is not what we see in front of us, it is what we make of it in our heads. Heritage sites have been connected to a range of identarian projects, both spatial and non-spatial. One of the most common links with heritage has been national identity. This book stresses that heritage has developed powerful links to regional and local identities. Contributors deal explicitly with regions of... Read more

Introduction: Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities (Christian Wicke) 1.Mining Memories: Big Pit and Industrial Heritage in South Wales (Leighton James) 2. Looking Back: Representations of the Industrial Past in Asturias (Rubén Vega) 3.Regional identity and industrial heritage in the mining area of Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Marion Fontaine)
4.A Post-Industrial Mindscape? The Mainstreaming and Touristification of Industrial Heritage in the Ruhr  (Stefan Berger, Jana Golombek and Christian Wicke ) 5.Contested Heritage and Regional Identity in the Borsod Industrial Area in Hungary (Györgyi Németh) 6.Identity and Mining Heritage in Romania’s Jiu Valley Coal Region (David Kideckel) 7. Regional Identity in the Making? Industrial Heritage and Regional Identity in the Coal Region of Northern Kyūshū in Japan (Regine Mathias) 8. ‘There needs to be something there for people to remember’: Industrial Heritage in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley, Australia (Erik Eklund) 9.From Mills to Malls: Industrial Heritage and Regional Identity in Metropolitan Pittsburgh (Allen Dieterich-Ward) 10. Regions of heavy industry and their heritage – between identity politics and ‘touristification’: where to next? (Stefan Berger and Paul Pickering)

Biography

Christian Wicke is Assistant Professor in political history at Utrecht University.



Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History at Ruhr University Bochum and director of the Institute for Social Movements.



Jana Golombek is a doctoral student and a research associate at the German Mining Museum in Bochum and is working as a researcher and curator at the LWL-Industrial Museum in Dortmund.