Connecting with Ambivalent Heritage
Subtitle: Creative Uses of Postindustrial Spaces
By: edited by Tiina Äikäs and Tuuli Matila
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: UCL Critical Cultural Heritage Series
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2024
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781350426771; 9781350426740; 9781350426757; 9781350426764; 9781350426788
Subjects: Cultural property..; Historic industrial sites; Environmental archaeology; Industry & industrial studies; Museology & heritage studies
Description: <b>Exploring the difficult and contested sites of deindustrialized society on the brink of transformation to either heritage or wasteland, this volume looks at the creative ways that such sites are (re)used and suggests that they are not always merely abject or abandoned. </b>As a result, our understanding of the meanings given to left over spaces is enhanced by an examination of the ways they are used.   Ambivalent heritage sites are not always recognized for their potential, although artists and people from different recreational activities, such as industrial sites and parkour, use and experience these places in different ways. The contributors introduce fresh ideas on how to approach these sites and the people invested in them, employing multidisciplinary methodologies from archaeology and heritage studies to ethnography and sociology. Through the use of Northern-European case studies such as a former sanatorium, a prison and the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, the reader gains a new perspective on these sites of contestation, which are cherished despite their problematic status. The conclusion is that due to the rapid societal change we are experiencing in the contemporary world, heritage professionals must start to acknowledge and deal with the difficulties that ambivalent heritage sites pose.
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Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations  List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgements   Introduction: Connecting with Ambivalent Heritage; title: Creative uses of Post-industrial Spaces  Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Tiina Äikäs (University of Oulu, Finland) and Pauliina Latvala-Harvilahti (University of Turku, Finland)    1. "Renegade Care": Conservation, Co-curation, and Heritage Place-Making in Liminal Spaces  Alexa Deanne Spiwak (University of Oslo, Norway)    2. Suburban Heritage as Tourist Attraction?  Minni Haanpää, Maria Hakkarainen and Anu Harju-Myllyaho (University of Lapland, Finland)    3. Local Activism and Agency in the Heritagisation Processes; title: The Case of Forests in the Paimio Sanatorium, Finland  Maija Mäki and Helena Ruotsala (University of Turku, Finland)   4. Masculinity, Smokestacks and the Decline of Industry: Visualizing Industrial Heritage in Social Media Tuuli Matila (University of Oulu, Finland)   5. Co-constructing Chornobyl: Investigating Visitors' Heritage Meaning-Making through Performativity in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone Veera Ojala (University of Turku, Finland)  6. Spiralling into a Labyrinth of Cultural Fantasies and Extractivism: Treasures, Extraordinary Undergrounds, and the 'Temple of Lemminkäinen' (Sipoo, Finland) Vesa-Pekka Herva (University of Oulu, Finland), Oula Seitsonen (University of Oulu, Finland), Tina Paphitis (University of Bergen, Norway), Teresa Komu (University of Lapland, Finland), Gabriel Moshenska (UCL, UK) and Risto Nurmi (University of Oulu, Finland)   7. Uses of the Industrial Mining Past: The Revitalisation of Old Mines as New Outdoor Spaces in Sweden  Albina Pashkevich and Daniel Brandt (Dalarna University, Sweden)   8. 8.What the Muggles Don't See: Affordances of Abandoned Industrial Sites for Hobbyists Tiina Äikäs, Marjo Juola, Oula Seitsonen (University of Oulu, Finland) and Gabriel Moshenska (UCL, UK)   9. Photo Essay: Remaining without Preservation: The Zombie Standing of Kino Rodina in Estonia  Francisco Martinez (Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia)   10. Discussion: The Discomforting Appeal of Ambivalent Heritage  Hilary Orange (Swansea University, UK)   Notes  Bibliography  Index