When Community Comes Home to Roost: The Southern Milltown as Lost Cause

Fink, Leon

doi:10.1353/jsh.2006.0079

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“…Other social science research methods have been used to research heritage, including grounded theory (Milligan, 2007), qualitative case studies (Fink, 2006), phenomenologies (Wells and Baldwin, 2012), visual preference studies (Galindo and Hidalgo, 2005), as well as mixed methods (Paulsen, 2007, p. 30), but with the exception of action research, REAPs, and perhaps content analysis, these seem ill-suited to inclusion in the adaptive regulatory framework because of intensive resource requirements (mainly time) and a focus on creating theories rather than on practical applications. Quantitative methods, such as survey methodologies, offer a relatively low resource overhead and can be quick to administer, but lack the depth of meaning that is a requirement of heterodox heritage approaches, but can be useful if the objective is generalization.…”

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Heritage values and legal rules

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Lixinski

2017

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Purpose Existing regulatory frameworks for identifying and treating historic buildings and places reflect deference to expert rule, which privileges the values of a small number of heritage experts over the values of the majority of people who visit, work, and reside in historic environments. The purpose of this paper is to explore a fundamental shift in how US federal and local preservation laws address built heritage by suggesting a dynamic, adaptive regulatory framework that incorporates heterodox approaches to heritage and therefore is capable of accommodating contemporary sociocultural values. Design/methodology/approach The overall approach used is a comparative literature review from the fields of heterodox/orthodox heritage, heterodox/orthodox law, adaptive management, and participatory methods to inform the creation of a dynamic, adaptive regulatory framework. Findings Tools such as dialogical democracy and participatory action research are sufficiently pragmatic in implementation to envision how an adaptive regulatory framework could be implemented. This new framework would likely require heterodox definitions of law that move beyond justice as a primary purpose and broaden the nature of legal goods that can be protected while addressing discourses of power to benefit a larger group of stakeholders. Practical implications The authors suggest that an adaptive regulatory framework would be particularly beneficial for architectural and urban conservation planning, as it foregrounds considerations other than property rights in decision-making processes. While such a goal appears to be theoretically possible, the challenge will be to translate the theory of an adaptive regulatory framework into practice as there does not appear to be any precedent for its implementation. There will be issues with the need for increased resources to implement this framework. Originality/value To date, there have been few, if any, attempts to address critical heritage studies theory in the context of the regulatory environment. This paper appears to be the first such investigation in the literature.

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Section: A More Effective Way Of Engaging Stakeholders: the Adaptive Regulatory Frameworkmentioning

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Heritage values and legal rules

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Lixinski

2017

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“…78 Wells emphasised women's economic freedom. Wells began participating in civil rights demonstrations in Washington, DC at age fourteen, and she had been a member of civil rights and student organisations as they unfolded in the 1960s.…”

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“…The League also supported women's liberation, stating in its constitution, 'Women's liberation is a component part of proletarian revolution, and the OL firmly upholds the revolutionary struggle for the full equality and the emancipation of women'. 78 Wells emphasised women's economic freedom. She asserted that women's rights included more than 'the right to be mayor'; they also included the right to decent jobs and childcare as well.…”

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The Company Owns the Mine but They Don't Own Us: Feminist Critiques of Capitalism in the Coalfields of Kentucky in the 1970s

Wilkerson¹

2016

Gender & History

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This article examines women's involvement in the Brookside Mine strike of 1974, which captivated US audiences and provided women with an unprecedented public platform to challenge the class and gender system undergirding coalfield capitalism. During the strike, female kin of miners in Harlan County, Kentucky, started a club to support striking miners and their families and to organise picket lines; they were joined by women from across the region and country. With the strike as their foundation these women generated a women's movement that revealed the specific ways class and gender inequality shaped their lives, defined by the heavy‐duty care work characteristic of the coalfields. This article argues that the Brookside women's support of striking miners was fundamentally about gendered class inequality: the denigration of working‐class, female caregivers alongside the devaluing of men's labour. Using collective memory and individual experience as their interpretive devices, the Brookside women forged a class‐conscious feminism. In it they exposed the traumas of coalfield capitalism, shone a light on women's unpaid care work (one of the foundations of corporate capitalism) and destabilised the gender and class hierarchies that defined coalfield communities.

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“…On this very point, Leon Fink has raised some troubling questions about the racial politics of mill town nostalgia in the US South. 24 Of course, the political possibilities of "the local" as a site of working-class resistance have been the subject of much debate by the likes of David Harvey and Doreen Massey. 25 Though the contributors to this special issue work at varying geographic scales, I don't have a clear sense here of the ways in which scale matters when considering the cultural meaning of deindustrialization.…”

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Beyond Aesthetics: Visibility and Invisibility in the Aftermath of Deindustrialization

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2013

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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This special issue on “Crumbling Cultures,” the first to appear on deindustrialization in a labor history journal, confirms the historiographical trend away from displaced industrial workers themselves and the cultural meaning of job loss, to a wider reflection on the cultural consequences and representations of deindustrialization. The subject, here, is the cultural agency or resilience of working-class communities broadly defined. This shifting focus reflects the evolving baseline, as the political heat of the 1980s and 1990s cools and rates of unionization plummet. For the most part, the sense of cultural continuity, or working class persistence, so evident in this issue, is found in places where not much has filled the economic and cultural vacuum. As a result, nobody in this issue speaks to the deindustrialization of large metropolitan cities. There, the actions of the state, and middle-class gentrifiers, are weighed and measured as old mills and factories are demolished or converted into condominiums or art spaces. In effect, deindustrialization and the subsequent postindustrial transformation deliver a one-two punch against working-class neighbourhoods and the old culture of industrialism. The resulting break with the industrial past may therefore be greatest where the outward signs of industrial ruination are least visible. The rise of middle-class ruin-gazing within popular culture and the academy, and the global circulation and commodification of these images and experiences, nonetheless raises important questions about its underlying politics. As historian Jackie Clarke has noted elsewhere, what is rendered visible and invisible in a post-industrial era is highly significant.

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When Community Comes Home to Roost: The Southern Milltown as Lost Cause

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Heritage values and legal rules

Heritage values and legal rules

The Company Owns the Mine but They Don't Own Us: Feminist Critiques of Capitalism in the Coalfields of Kentucky in the 1970s

Beyond Aesthetics: Visibility and Invisibility in the Aftermath of Deindustrialization

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