Brian Rosa
I am an urban geographer and photographer living in Barcelona, Spain, where I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Before relocating to Barcelona, I was Assistant Professor of Urban Studies (Queens College) and Geography (The Graduate Center) at the City University of New York. I was also affiliated with the Queens College MFA in Social Practice program and was founder and co-Director of the College’s City Lab. From 2013 to 2014, I was Lecturer in Urban and Community Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
I hold a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Manchester, a MRP in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, and a BA in Sociology from Clark University.
My academic work focuses on the transformation of deindustrializing urban districts and landscapes of urban infrastructure, political debates about urban heritage and preservation, gentrification, visual methods, and the spatial and cultural politics of urban transformation in Britain, the United States, and Spain.
I am co-editor, with Christoph Lindner, of Deconstructing the High Line (Rutgers UP 2017), and have published my work in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in English and Spanish.
My current research in Barcelona explores the conservation of smokestacks as monuments-typically, demolishing remaining industrial buildings and structures and leaving them in landscaped plazas- and seeks to understand how and why this urban design strategy has been replicated since the 1980s. Then, through a participatory methodology involving a photography exhibition at the History Museum of Barcelona, I am investigating what people who live, work, and visit working-class, former industrial districts in the city understand these monuments to symbolize, and to understand attitudes about the city's relation with its industrial heritage and history of urban redevelopment since the transition to democracy and its policy-led deindustrialization.
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Sessions auxquelles Brian Rosa participe
Jeudi 1 Septembre, 2022
Sessions auxquelles Brian Rosa assiste
Dimanche 28 Août, 2022
Joignez-vous aux organisateurs du congrès et aux membres du board de TICCIH pour un cocktail de bienvenue et quelques mots festifs de présentation, dans l’ancienne forge de l’École technique de Montréal, fondée en 1909, aujourd’hui intégrée au campus de l’Université du Québec à Montréal.
Lundi 29 Août, 2022
Patrimoine industriel et photographie entretiennent des relations étroites. La photographie constitue une source de l’archéologie industrielle. Elle permet d’éclairer les liens entre les hommes, leurs outils, leurs machines et leurs lieux de travail. Elle est également, une fois l’activité industrielle terminée, un outil de documentation et d’étude des sites. Mais bien au-delà, saisie par des artistes capables de transcender les représentations communes, conférant aux vestiges industriels ...
Mardi 30 Août, 2022
Les efforts visant à préserver le patrimoine industriel s'inscrivent dans un contexte socio-économique et politique précis. Mais qu'est-ce qui est préservé et pour qui ? Et, par ailleurs, quelle est la relation entre les sites du patrimoine industriel et les communautés ouvrières soumises à la désindustrialisation qui les jouxtent souvent ? Steven High examinera les façons dont la préservation du canal de Lachine à Montréal, le principal site du patrimoine i...
Mercredi 31 Août, 2022
Rome Reloaded. Or Industrial Heritage Meets the ArtsSince the end of the Industrial Age, the treatment of its heritage has changed from demolition to preservation (Kierdorf/Hassler 2000). In Rome—which is usually not perceived as an industrial city—, over 60 related examples (Torelli Landini 2007) offer a wide field of research regarding visions for its future. Recently, the challenges to reload those artefacts have been accepted also by foreign...
In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-wing populism. Drawing on studies of memory and heritage, I argue that right-wing populists have cornered the market on talking about the past of deindustrialised communities. They have successfully misrepresented this rich and complex history to fuel rage, resentment, fear and reactionary nostalgia. Indeed, ‘the past’, and in particular the industr...
Jeudi 1 Septembre, 2022
De sa construction à sa restauration, plongez dans l’histoire et le présent de ce lieu incontournable du patrimoine industriel canadien. Voie maritime centrale au pays, port intérieur majeur, le Lowell canadien (recours à l’énergie hydraulique), berceau de l’industrialisation, Smokey Valley (recours à la vapeur), haut lieu de l’industrie manufacturière, le canal de Lachine est tout cela et plus encore. Car, il est également un lieu historique national où, depuis la réouverture du canal à l...
The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized working-class areas. The four papers seek to understand the socio-economic and political impact of recognizing the industrial past in the present. Two guiding questions will be asked. Can industrial heritage support those ‘left behind’ in deindustrialized areas where nothing, or very little, has filled the economic or cultural vacuum? Has industrial h...
This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world are directly related to the place-specific trajectories of deindustrialization. In other words: the different ways in which deindustrialization impacts on local communities has a direct bearing on the emergence of forms of industrial heritage. I will differentialte between deindustrialization paths and related industrial heritage regimes in a) Anglo-...
Vendredi 2 Septembre, 2022
In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mobility and unaccountability of capital, raised by those who were once inside (however tenuously or uncomfortably) and now find themselves marginalized, “left behind.” The desire to catch up again, whether through attracting new investment or transvaluing abandoned sites as tourist attractions, makes this an essentially conservative critique that is ...
Venez échanger sur les bons moments du congrès et célébrer vos découvertes scientifiques et professionnelles dans une ancienne fabrique de confiture de fruits, l’Usine C, construite en 1913 et transformée à la fin des années 1970 en lieu de création et de diffusion.Découvrez la gastronomie montréalaise grâce à un traiteur d’exception. Apprenez des bribes du patrimoine musical montréalais et de l’histoire du quartier industriel qui lui a prêté vie. Puis entendez et vivez la tradition...