Post-Industrial Landscape Scars

Storm, Anna

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“…There was a café down there, there were shops, but again, recession hit and this place is basically desolate, there is, we've lost […] (Callum,Ballymun,21) I mean there was a Tesco shopping centre in here that would've hired a lot of local people, […] so you could nearly a hundred percent guarantee that the people that worked in all those shops in the shopping centre, were from Ballymun. So, and then shops started kind of being shut down gradually, that was just more unemployment really… (Sophie,Ballymun,25) The centre's central location in Ballymun, near most service locations, made it a highly visible 'scar' of economic collapse (Storm, 2014), part of the 'topologies and topographies of Ireland's neoliberal crisis' representing broken promises, unrealised plans and failed dreams (O'Callaghan et al, 2015). As an everyday manifestation of capital switching (Aalbers, 2008), recession and austerity became embedded in the physical space of the lifeworld that formed physical receptors around which austerity narratives were constructed.…”

Section: The Neighbourhoodmentioning

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Encountering austerity in deprived urban neighbourhoods: Local geographies and the emergence of austerity in the lifeworld of urban youth

Lanen

2020

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Section: The Neighbourhoodmentioning

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Encountering austerity in deprived urban neighbourhoods: Local geographies and the emergence of austerity in the lifeworld of urban youth

Lanen

2020

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“…Elsewhere in the social sciences, this concern with postindustrial sites has focused on the psychological, social, and material effects of deindustrialisation on communities (Mah, ; Storm, ; Walkerdine & Jimenez, ). Yet despite these nuanced accounts of the effects of deindustrialisation, research on such places in decline tend to focus on their relationships with the past, rather than on the practices of the present through which such spaces are made and remade, and through which their inhabitants endure processes of ruination .…”

Section: The Problem With Ruinsmentioning

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Decommissioned places: Ruins, endurance and care at the end of the first nuclear age

Dawney

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper argues for a geography of deindustrialising places as spaces of inhabitation and endurance, rather than one based on narratives of progres, decline and ruination. Ruins have long been a concern for geographers, yet the material remains of modernity's grand schemes feed easily into ways of seeing and knowing deindustrialised spaces that can efface the practices through which lives and worlds are made in the present. Drawing on fieldwork in the former Soviet atomgrad of Visaginas, Lithuania, the paper both acknowledges and pulls back from the draw of the ruin. Moving away from the ruin‐temporalities of progress and decline, it offers an account of ongoing practices and modes of habitation in spaces defined by ruination. A reflexive acknowledgement of our contaminated role in making sense of such spaces allows us to be both enchanted by grand narratives of hubris and decline and to see other stories – stories of living on, of endurance, and of making lives in places circumscribed as futureless by political and economic regimes. As such, the paper offers an alternative geography of places that are decommissioned from above, paying attention to the care, commitment, makeshift practices and aesthetic projects through which their inhabitants live on. Engaging this approach through a series of small stories based on ethnographic and collaborative fieldwork alongside two photographers in Visaginas, I posit that the material and subjective remains of the dreams of the first nuclear age give rise to emergent forms of life that stand in excess to narratives of progress and decline. The ruins of Soviet nuclear modernity here operate as containers for practices of endurance and living on through changing relations of power and capital, rather than objects of melancholic loss, and as raw materials through which to forge ways of living in spaces characterised as surplus to requirement.

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“…Os territórios pós-industriais, pela espessura do seu passado, encerram em si um conjunto de significados profundamente enraizados e inextricavelmente ligados à sua memória e identidade, sendo esta entendida enquanto conjunto de características socioculturais que imprimem carácter aos territórios (Crang, 2000). Quando esses significados são, de algum modo, traumáticos, pode até falar-se de "cicatrizes pós-industriais" (Storm, 2014 Gospodini (2006), as paisagens emergentes da cidade pós-industrial são estruturadas em torno de novos epicentros, alguns deles de natureza cultural e artística. Memória e identidade emergem, neste quadro, enquanto recursos eminentemente endógenos que são mobilizados e alimentam este tipo de processos de transformação urbana.…”

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Regeneração urbana através da cultura e das artes : o caso do Barreiro

Carmo¹,

Matos²,

Pereira³

2019

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Adoptando uma perspectiva eminentemente hermenêutico-interpretativa, centrada na análise do discurso e das representações, este artigo pretende contribuir para a compreensão do actual processo de regeneração urbana do Barreiro. Se, por um lado, coloca a tónica no papel que nele desempenham a cultura e as artes, por outro, procura também descrever e interpretar as relações que se estabelecem com a memória e a identidade, enquanto traços constitutivos e definidores de um território profundamente marcado pelo seu passado. A partir da leitura crítica de um conjunto de 15 entrevistas realizadas a actores-chave que possuem um conhecimento aprofundado da realidade local, presente e passada, procura-se reconstituir uma narrativa inteligível que nos ajude a interrogar, a problematizar e a dar sentido ao processo investigado, designadamente ao nível das inter-relações e dinâmicas socioterritoriais existentes e dos discursos subjacentes. AbstractAdopting an eminently hermeneutic-interpretative perspective, centered on the analysis of discourse and representations, this article aims to contribute to the understanding of the current process of urban regeneration of Barreiro. If, on the one hand, it emphasizes the role that culture and the arts play in it, on the other, it also seeks to describe and interpret the relations that are established with memory and identity, as constitutive and defining features of a territory deeply marked by its past. From the critical reading of a set of 15 interviews conducted with key actors who have a thorough knowledge of the local reality, present and past, we seek to reconstruct an intelligible narrative that helps us interrogate, problematize and make sense of the process, namely in terms of interrelationships and existing socio-territorial dynamics and underlying discourses.

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Post-Industrial Landscape Scars

Cited by 70 publications

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Encountering austerity in deprived urban neighbourhoods: Local geographies and the emergence of austerity in the lifeworld of urban youth

Encountering austerity in deprived urban neighbourhoods: Local geographies and the emergence of austerity in the lifeworld of urban youth

Decommissioned places: Ruins, endurance and care at the end of the first nuclear age

Regeneração urbana através da cultura e das artes : o caso do Barreiro

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