A tale and its tale

Alexander, Dagmar

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2015.07.001

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“…People legitimated or evidenced their expressed feelings with reference to past experiences and sociality and in dialogue with present day conditions of Miners' Welfares, social relations and decline. While this study does not engage with psychoanalytic understandings of the unconscious suppression and embodiment of traumatic events, it remains that trauma can often be accompanied by a reluctance to speak, misrecognition or preference to leave traumatic experiences unremembered (Alexander, 2016;Caruth, 1995;Palacios, 2019). However, the hesitation to speak about traumatic themes appeared to be most related to localised contexts related to the 1984-85 Miners' Strike, colliery closures and ruination.…”

Section: Critically Reflexive Embodied Ethnographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the Nottinghamshire coalfield, unlike other mining areas, the 1984-85 Miners' Strike and colliery closures are rarely explicitly spoken of, suppressed precisely because those who lived those histories continue to live and suffer with them (Bright, 2016;Emery, 2018). However, vigilant suppression of these pasts often falters (Alexander, 2016). The absence of lost friends and family, the occasions shared with them and the rhythms that have been fractured are routinely evoked by and within Miners' Welfares.…”

Section: Miners' Welfare As Sites Of Ruination and Urban Traumamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The focus of this paper is bodily-material dynamics of urban trauma in/with Miners' Welfare institutions in the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK. The constitutive interrelations of space, trauma and affective memory for traumatic events have been extensively studied, documenting how troubling personal and social memories are embedded in physical and imagined sites and materialities (Alexander, 2016;Fewell, 2016;Hirsch, 2008;To & Trivelli, 2015). Emergent work on urban trauma has explored places that have experienced more attritional violence, emphasising the complexities of spatiotemporal processes of collective trauma (Fullilove, 2004;Mah, 2012;Pain, 2019;Shields, 2012;Till, 2012aTill, , 2012b.…”

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Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK

Emery

2020

Social & Cultural Geography

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The focus of this paper is bodily-material dynamics of urban trauma in ruins of Miners' Welfare institutions in the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK. Emergent geographical work on urban trauma has explored how attritional 'slow' violence enacts in space and time, emphasising the complexities of spatiotemporal processes of collective trauma. Processual theorisations in urban trauma literature are prefigured by those in recent ruins research where there is a retheorisation from ruin as object to ruins contingent of spatiotemporal processes of ruination. Bringing recent literatures on urban trauma into closer dialogue with ruins research, this paper makes a methodological contribution to bodily-material dynamics of urban trauma in spaces of ruination. Contributing to theoretical and empirical debates on industrial ruins and ruination, I advance two interrelated methodological positions: archival research and critically reflexive embodied ethnographies. Following a tracing of their development, I situate Miners' Welfares within theorisations of urban trauma and ruin(ation) before proposing a pluralistic and processual methodological framework. The utility of this framework is then enhanced by an empirical section arguing that bodily-material dynamics suggest moments of 'fast violence' imbricate the slow violence of ruination to constitute how urban trauma is textured into, and evoked by, the decline of Miners' Welfares. Le traumatisme urbain dans les ruines de la tradition industrielle: la Société de Secours Minière (Miners' Welfare) du bassin houiller du Nottinghamshire, au Royaume-Uni RÉSUMÉ Cette communication s'intéresse particulièrement aux dynamiques corporelles et matérielles du traumatisme urbain dans les ruines des institutions de la Société de Secours Minière du bassin houiller du Nottinghamshire, au Royaume-Uni. La recherche émergente sur le traumatisme urbain dans le domaine de la géographie a exploré la manière dont la violence d'attrition « lente » joue dans le temps et l'espace, mettant l'accent sur les complexités des processus spatiotemporels au niveau du traumatisme collectif. Les stratégies de ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Critically Reflexive Embodied Ethnographiesmentioning

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Section: Miners' Welfare As Sites Of Ruination and Urban Traumamentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK

Emery

2020

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“…However, for some historical scholars, and in line with a wider concern in the discipline for placing emotions in research (see Smith et al, 2009), an interest in experimenting with autobiographical approaches is beginning to emerge (Bondi, 2014;Daniels and Nash, 2004). Recent work concerning liminal spaces and intergenerational trauma showcase most profoundly the threading of traces from the past into present-day autobiographical narratives (Alexander, 2016;Fewell, 2016). Barbour (2016), for example, begins with a reflection on her mother's jewellery box and strands of preserved human hair found encased within a small rectangle brooch found within.…”

Section: Locating Moments: Historical/ Fictional Livesmentioning

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Historical geography II

McGeachan

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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The second report in this series turns to focus on the trace in relation to life-writing and biography in historical geography and beyond. Through attention to tracing journeys, located moments and listening to the presence of ghosts (Ogborn, 2005), this report seeks to highlight the range of different ways in which historical geographers have explored lives, deaths, and their transient traces through varied biographical terrains. Continuing to draw attention in historical geography to the darkest of histories, this piece will pivot on moments of discovering the dead to showcase the nuanced ways in which historical geography is opening doors into uncharted lives and unspoken histories.

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A tale and its tale

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Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK

Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK

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