Case studies in community-led and collaborative industrial heritage
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Community lies at the heart of the processes of industrialization and de-industrialization. From labor to landscapes and from social fabric to ecological communities, scholars regularly examined the industrial community as core to industrial heritage. However, while social scientists have long studied industrial communities, only recently has there been a general consensus of respecting and working with communities themselves. Even so, working “with” a community on industrial heritage has too often led to tokenization, generalization, or even continued appropriation, rather than research processes that enhanced agency and created sustainable power relations, enhancing a community’s ability to tell its own diverse heritages. This session expands past acknowledging, studying, or consulting the community to better understand how we as scholars and industrial heritage itself can work for communities that share their lives with us.
Drawing from community-based methodology and scholarship across the social sciences, we explore examples of community agency, activism, and research design. From identifying research questions, to implementation, to dissemination and use, this session takes a broad view of community-based research in industrial heritage to better understand how systems of disenfranchisement within industrialization, de-industrialization. and post-industrial development impact communities and means of redress.
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The idea to create a Negros Island Sugar Heritage Trail was a result of a proposal to nominate the Sugar Centrals of Negros Island for potential World Heritage inscription. There are many intact sugar centrals around Negros Island. Initially, this serial nomination was to be called Centrales Azucareras of Negros Island to include historic sugar centrals in Bais City, Negros Oriental, and Bago City, Victorias City, Silay City, and Sagay City in Negros Occidental. But the name was later modifie...
This paper proposes to study the case of L'AP, an artistic and cultural association located in the city of Châteauroux. The castelroussin territory, whose deindustrialization and the departure of the American community led to an economic and demographic decline, suffers from a lack of image, both with its inhabitants and with people outside the territory. Since the investment of an old factory in the city center, the team acts according t...
As a country ubiquitous with industry and the industrial revolution, the identity of the United Kingdom, and Wales specifically, is rooted into the mines, mills, and factories which drove the nation’s development. However, as much of that industry has now left, communities remain with cultural, economic, and environmental scars. One world-wide solution to this shift has been tourism (Çela, Lankford, Knowles-Lankford 2009; Cuccia, Guccio, and Rizzo 2016; Di Giovine 2008; Pérez-Álvarez et al...
