Emery, J. (2019) 'That once romantic now utterly disheartening (former) colliery town' : the affective politics of heritage, memory, place and regeneration in Mansfield, UK. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 6 (2). pp. 219-240. ISSN 2050-9790
Abstract
This article investigates the affective politics of heritage, memory, place and regeneration in Mansfield, UK. Ravaged by workplace closures from the 1980s, Mansfield's local government and cultural partners have supposedly put heritage at the centre of urban regeneration policies. Principal are ambiguous, and forestalled, ambitions to mobilize the industrial past to build urban futures. Yet these heritages, and their attendant memories and histories, are emotionally evocative and highly contested. The affective politics are played out in the material, embodied and atmospheric remains of the industrial past as Mansfield struggles to make sense of its industrial legacies. Drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis, archival research, observant participation and interview data, this article critiques heritage-based regeneration; examines interrelations between local memory, class, place and history; and interprets tensions between competing imaginaries of what Mansfield is, was and should be. Contributing to work on memory and class in post-industrial towns, the article demonstrates that affect and place should be central to our considerations of heritage-based urban regeneration. In the case of Mansfield, an 'emotional regeneration' will be denied until a shared practice of remembering the affective ruptures of the past is enabled.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Intellect Ltd. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | industrial heritage; working-class memory; post-industrial towns; urban regeneration; affective politics; deindustrialization |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2020 11:54 |
Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2020 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Intellect |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1386/jucs_00011_1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156675 |