Engaging Hashima: Memory Work, Site-Based Affects, and the Possibilities of Interruption

Dixon, Deborah; Pendleton, Mark; Fearnley, Carina

doi:10.1080/2373566x.2016.1168208

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“…Acknowledging the increasing number of literature, cultural geography is proving to be one of the fields of study from which the most innovative enquiries regarding modern ruins are carried out. In recent years, researchers have addressed these spaces using a broad variety of experimental approaches -including walking, creative writing, and audio media 64 -while such an interdisciplinary character is perceived as an asset to go beyond ruinenlust. 65 In this sense, this article contributes to push the boundaries of cultural geographical analysis by presenting a creative response to unfinished ruins that use art and heritage as non-conventional, proactive frameworks to deal with such a harsh spatial reality.…”

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Reimagining unfinished architectures: ruin perspectives between art and heritage

Arboleda

2018

cultural geographies

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For the past five decades, hundreds of unfinished public works have been erected in Italy as the result of inconsistent planning and the presence of corruption and organised crime. A third of these constructions are located in Sicily alone and so, in 2007, a group of artists labelled this phenomenon an architectural style: 'Incompiuto Siciliano'. Through this creative approach, the artists' objective is to put incompletion back on the agenda by viewing it from a heritage perspective. This article reviews the different approaches that the artists have envisaged to handle unfinished public works; whether to finish them, demolish them, leave them as they are or opt for an 'active' arrested decay. The critical implications of these strategies are analysed in order to, ultimately, conclude that incompletion is such a vast and complex issue that it will surely have more than one single solution; but rather a combination of these four. This is important because it opens up a debate on the broad spectrum of possibilities to tackle incompletion-establishing this as one of the key contemporary urban themes not only in Italy but also in those countries affected by unfinished geographies after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Reimagining unfinished architectures: ruin perspectives between art and heritage

Arboleda

2018

cultural geographies

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“…This is what we set out to trace along the West Shore of Stromness: the presence of the geological in the everyday, linking biographical time with deep time through exploring its manifestation in the space generated by the various human and more-than-human agents that we encountered there. Yet sense of place is not without interruption (Dixon et al 2016), and such relationships are not always consonant; indeed, they can have the character of disjuncture.…”

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Time Horizon: Intersections of Deep Time and Biographical Time on the West Shore, Stromness, Orkney

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What is the significance of a human life in relation to the timespan of the geological processes that shape and reshape the terrain under our feet? Here, we ask how we might think on a planetary scale while being grounded in the everyday, tracing the relationship between biographical time and geological formation. Examining social relationships through the materiality of sandstone, uranium, and concrete, this paper presents a collaborative deep time practice, realised through the iterative process of walking, reading and inscribing a specific site, the West Shore of Stromness, Orkney.

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“…Notions of memorials to environmental damage or 'toxic ruin as classroom' have antecedents ( Misrach and Misrach1990;Hoskins and Whitehead 2013;Dixon et al 2016). There is interest in establishing what might be called 'heritage sites of environmental conscience' that could include Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, the Love Canal in New York, or Pripyat, Chernobyl.…”

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Toxic Heritage

Kryder–Reid¹,

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2023

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Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue.Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume provides a critical framing of the globally expanding field of toxic heritage. Authors from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies examine toxic heritage as both a material phenomenon and a concept. Organized into five thematic sections, the book explores the meaning and significance of toxic heritage, politics, narratives, affected communities, and activist approaches and interventions. It identifies critical issues and highlights areas of emerging research on the intersections of environmental harm with formal and informal memory practices, while also highlighting the resilience, advocacy, and creativity of communities, scholars, and heritage professionals in responding to the current environmental crises.Toxic Heritage is useful and relevant to scholars and students working across a range of disciplines, including heritage studies, environmental science, archaeology, anthropology, and geography.

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Engaging Hashima: Memory Work, Site-Based Affects, and the Possibilities of Interruption

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

Reimagining unfinished architectures: ruin perspectives between art and heritage

Reimagining unfinished architectures: ruin perspectives between art and heritage

Time Horizon: Intersections of Deep Time and Biographical Time on the West Shore, Stromness, Orkney

Toxic Heritage

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