Heritage Work: The Preservations and Performances of Thames Sailing Barges

Nettleingham, David

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“…The practices and processes discussed in this article are in part a response to the sense of loss, injury and harm that follow a form of nomad capitalism, the logic of which exploits people and places, and then, as it suits, moves on (Williams, 1989). The form of heritage work found in Six Bells is an attempt to preserve identities and traditions in a context of rapid social change and, relatedly, to accomplish an authentic set of valuable representations and imaginaries of the past (Macdonald, 1997;Nettleingham, 2018;Samuel, 1994). It is through the symbolic power of the heritage room, and specifically through the act of accepting the artefacts and accounts, that political, social and cultural value is produced and reproduced through time.…”

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“…Bells is an attempt to preserve identities and traditions in a context of rapid social change and, relatedly, to accomplish an authentic set of valuable representations and imaginaries of the past (Nettleingham, 2018;Samuel, 1994, Macdonald, 1997. It is through the symbolic power of the heritage room, and specifically through the act of accepting the artefacts and accounts, that political, social and cultural value is produced and reproduced through time.…”

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“…While the heritage room offers a space for family members to give artefacts, their arrival is on occasion problematic. Nettleingham (2018) points to the way in which the cultural value of heritage and decisions about what to preserve and exhibit, are context-dependent. In this contemporary setting of loss and longing, both in terms of the pit disaster itself and also broader processes of de-industrialisation, in our heritage room the volunteers have made the decision to accept and preserve everything that is given, and to treat gifts with what they consider to be due care.…”

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Everyday practices of memory: Authenticity, value and the gift

Blakely

Moles

2019

The Sociological Review

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This article develops theories of collective memory by attending to the everyday practices and meaning-making involved in creating and sustaining sites of heritage. While research across disciplines linked to memory studies has increased in recent years, with a notable sociological contribution, as yet ethnographic understandings of how collective memory is produced and maintained through locally situated and embedded practices are not fully realized. Our research took place in the village of Six Bells in the South Wales Valleys, where living memory of a coal mining disaster in 1960 and coal mining itself are slowly disappearing. One of ways in which the people of Six Bells are remembering and commemorating this past is by giving their narratives and artefacts to the community’s ‘heritage room’ as gifts. This form of remembering, prompted by an extraordinary event and the rapid social change associated with deindustrialization, produces and sustains legitimate representations and imaginaries of the past. By developing anthropological understandings of gift exchange, we propose that these practices are one visible component of the claims to authenticity and the bestowal of value active in the memory work of everyday life. We attend to three interrelated characteristics of gift exchange to develop our argument; the importance of the personal in producing authenticity through the gift relation; the provenance and social impetus of the act of giving; and the systems of reciprocity generated across and between generations, which work to assign value to the gift itself.

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Moles

2019

The Sociological Review

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“…In the latter case, the focus is on visiting selected places, where the proposed non-formal learning programme is employed, yet its main motive is related to personal purposes rather than the intrinsic aspiration of a tourist/ visitor to learn and discover. It shows that educational tourism is associated with learning goals, curriculum, and learning through experience and experimentation, including active engagement of students (Stone & Petrick, 2013;McGladdert & Lubbe, 2017;Harazneh et al, 2018, Nettleingham, 2018. In their study, Pitman et al (2010, 223) highlighted three key ideas about the form of learning in educational tourism: "First, it was intentional, such as 'taking a trip specifically to broaden my horizons or enhance my knowledge.'…”

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Learning the Nuclear: Educational Tourism in (Post)Industrial Sites

Mažeikienė¹,

Tandžegolskienė²,

Dovydaitytė³

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This book illuminates the educational potential of nuclear tourism and learning about nuclear power in informal and non-formal learning settings. The authors present a case of elaboration of the educational virtual nuclear route in the Ignalina Power Plant Region, Lithuania. Nuclear tourism takes its shape at the junction of several types of tourism � energy, industrial, cultural, and heritage and it becomes a site of outdoor and place-based education, promotes STEM, energy literacy, critical thinking, and environmental skills, and creates a valuable source for virtual learning. The book reveals peculiarities of learning and experience at nuclear power plants and disaster tourism destinations such as the Chernobyl Museum and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

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Learning the Nuclear: Educational Tourism in (Post)Industrial Sites

2021

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The main topic of the chapter is related to the changes that took place during the historical stage of the industrial period. The changes are analysed through the preservation and revitalisation of objects, the perspective of landscape reconstruction, and the renewal of the urban city. The main keywords in the chapter are related to the preservation of industrial heritage, the meaning of historical events, the determination of the value of remembrance based on the theory of the scar, the importance of identity, and the principles of educational tourism. In this work, the case study method is applied. The underlying principles of this method allow to devise certain characteristic strategies in constructing the new face of an industrial heritage object, post-industrial landscape, or urban city. The case study discusses the example of the Ruhr area in Germany through which certain trends on how problematic and specific objects are transformed into part of the cultural heritage and places of interest are shown. The obtained results are presented in connection with the challenges posed by the closure of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) and the search for the new identity in the city of Visaginas. The study report also presents elements of a sustainable and long-term industrial heritage analysis scheme including the uniqueness of the site, its significance to society, value potential, approaches to demonstrating objects based on constructivist philosophy, educational tourism, and new learning experiences.

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Heritage Work: The Preservations and Performances of Thames Sailing Barges

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Cited by 7 publications

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Everyday practices of memory: Authenticity, value and the gift

Everyday practices of memory: Authenticity, value and the gift

Learning the Nuclear: Educational Tourism in (Post)Industrial Sites

Learning the Nuclear: Educational Tourism in (Post)Industrial Sites

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