Battlefields of Class Conflict: Ludlow Then and Now

Saitta, Dean; Walker, Mark; Reckner, Paul

doi:10.1163/157407705774928971

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“…Accordingly, vernacular interests can be quite disruptive. The monument memorializing victims of the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado, for instance, evokes a violent moment in the history of class warfare that continues to resonate with contemporary workers and union members (Ludlow Collective, 2001; Saitta et al., 2005).…”

Section: Official Concerns Vernacular Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

In the shadow of the Citadel: Haitian national patrimony and vernacular concerns

Geller

Marcelin

2019

Journal of Social Archaeology

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A growing number of heritage studies scholars critique top-down approaches to cultural sites of global significance. International and state organizations, they explain, eschew locals’ concerns. We consider the Parc National Historique, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Haiti, Milot. Writers have produced a history that is hierarchical and nationalistic in ideological tone, which policy makers circulate when promoting the Parc. In so doing, they elide the past roles and present-day concerns of Milot’s residents, who have lived in these structures’ shadows for generations. To access them, our ethnographic work documents a vernacular culture-history, which shares common ground with official interests and departs in important ways. Incongruities in practice and discourse stem from locals’ understanding of heritage ( eritaj) and experiences of instability ( enstabilite). The validation of vernacular concerns makes for a comprehensive understanding of the past. It may also create collaborative opportunities between the community and national (or international) organizations, which can safeguard Haitian patrimony and alleviate socio-economic instabilities.

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Section: Official Concerns Vernacular Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

In the shadow of the Citadel: Haitian national patrimony and vernacular concerns

Geller

Marcelin

2019

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…The importance of women to the stability of the miner's household is well documented (e.g., Giesen 1995; Metheny 2007Metheny , 2010. But artifacts associated with mining are often interpreted first as the material signature of a culture of resistance to mine owners, programs of corporate paternalism, and the institutionalized practice of workingclass exploitation (e.g., Saitta, Walker, and Reckner 2005; for discussion, see Paynter and McGuire 1991;Hardesty 1998;Shackel 2003). The miner 's dinner pail is such an object.…”

Section: Connecting Food-related Artifacts With Household Workplacementioning

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Modeling Communities through Food: Connecting the Daily Meal to the Construction of Place and Identity

Metheny¹

2013

NEHA

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“…In Scotland, the memorial to the national hero William Wallace was built on Abbey Craig, the high ground assumed to have been his command post during the battle against English forces at Stirling Bridge in 1297 (Edensor 1997;Gold and Gold 1995). In the case of the memorial to the victims of the Ludlow massacre of strikers and their families during the 1914 coal 'war' in southern Colorado, it is the death pit where the worst loss of life occurred that is marked (Saitta et al 2006).…”

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Historical space as narrative medium: on the configuration of spatial narratives of time at historical sites

Azaryahu

Foote

2008

GeoJournal

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This paper examines how narratives of history are organized spatially at historical sites and memorial spaces, especially in urban settings and in places invested with a sense of collective memory. Much recent research has focused on landscape, memory, and place and how relationships of political and social power influence the representation of historical events in public spaces. Although the meaning of such sites may be hotly contested for long periods of time, we focus here on narrative theory and the related, but unexplored, issue of how such historical stories are configured on the ground at actual historical sites. We identify a number of narrative strategies which are frequently used to configure historical stories in space. Declamatory strategies using markers presenting a snapshot of an event are common, but sequential and non-sequential linear strategies are also used, as are thematic strategies that cross-cut space and time to present complex historical stories at various spatial scales. Examples are drawn from a range of historical sites in North America, Europe and Israel.

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Battlefields of Class Conflict: Ludlow Then and Now

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

In the shadow of the Citadel: Haitian national patrimony and vernacular concerns

In the shadow of the Citadel: Haitian national patrimony and vernacular concerns

Modeling Communities through Food: Connecting the Daily Meal to the Construction of Place and Identity

Historical space as narrative medium: on the configuration of spatial narratives of time at historical sites

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