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CHAT-listers may be interested in submitting papers to this session at TAG,
Many thanks,
Sefryn
TAG 2009, Durham, December 17-19
see http://www.dur.ac.uk/tag.2009/
Reanimating Industrial Spaces
Organised by: Hilary Orange (UCL Institute of Archaeology) [log in to unmask]) and Sefryn Penrose (Atkins Heritage and University of Oxford, [log in to unmask]).
STATUS OF THIS SESSION: Still accepting papers.
ABSTRACT
The last century has irrevocably changed the world of work, and inextricably, the way we live and have lived. It has been a "revolutionary period of socio-economic transformation" (Casella, 2005). We argue that many industrial spaces survive in our present and it is still possible to record the memories of those who worked in industries and that this can provide contemporary perspectives on the successional uses of site and landscape since deindustrialisation. Whilst several recent volumes have considered the social dimensions of industrial sites in terms of new theoretical approaches memory work often remains a fleeting reference within these texts. The aim of this session is to move memory work centre stage in order to evaluate current theoretical approaches to the re-animation of industrial spaces (those which place people back in industrial spaces) and to assess their relevance, strengths and challenges within current research on archaeologies of industry.
We would welcome a broad range of papers which may consider some of the following questions: What approaches are being employed within research which examines different kinds of industrial work in the recent past? What role and relevance does memory work have within this research? What are the strengths and weaknesses of interpretations which are drawn from people's memories? How are archaeologies of the recent industrial past best communicated within outputs, textual, aural or visual, to differing audiences? Is a 'gap' between the researcher’s fieldwork experience and research output necessarily a problematic one?