The aesthetics of memory: Ruins, visibility and witnessing

Palacios, Margarita

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“…Spatial and temporal ruination has complex and traumatic affects: nostalgia and mourning for the spaces where events and practices took place; suppression of traumatic pasts relating to the Miners' Strike 1984-1985 and subsequent industrial ruination and closures; and resignation and apathy toward the decline of mining communities. Ruins, thus, often (re)surface and reify traumatic pasts, signal nostalgic loss, and entrench urban trauma in the present (Pain, 2019;Palacios, 2018;Stoler, 2008). With urban trauma an ongoing process, more needs to be done to illustrate the narratives, meanings and associations engendered by industrial ruins (Mah, 2012).…”

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Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK

Emery

2020

Social & Cultural Geography

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The focus of this paper is bodily-material dynamics of urban trauma in ruins of Miners' Welfare institutions in the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK. Emergent geographical work on urban trauma has explored how attritional 'slow' violence enacts in space and time, emphasising the complexities of spatiotemporal processes of collective trauma. Processual theorisations in urban trauma literature are prefigured by those in recent ruins research where there is a retheorisation from ruin as object to ruins contingent of spatiotemporal processes of ruination. Bringing recent literatures on urban trauma into closer dialogue with ruins research, this paper makes a methodological contribution to bodily-material dynamics of urban trauma in spaces of ruination. Contributing to theoretical and empirical debates on industrial ruins and ruination, I advance two interrelated methodological positions: archival research and critically reflexive embodied ethnographies. Following a tracing of their development, I situate Miners' Welfares within theorisations of urban trauma and ruin(ation) before proposing a pluralistic and processual methodological framework. The utility of this framework is then enhanced by an empirical section arguing that bodily-material dynamics suggest moments of 'fast violence' imbricate the slow violence of ruination to constitute how urban trauma is textured into, and evoked by, the decline of Miners' Welfares. Le traumatisme urbain dans les ruines de la tradition industrielle: la Société de Secours Minière (Miners' Welfare) du bassin houiller du Nottinghamshire, au Royaume-Uni RÉSUMÉ Cette communication s'intéresse particulièrement aux dynamiques corporelles et matérielles du traumatisme urbain dans les ruines des institutions de la Société de Secours Minière du bassin houiller du Nottinghamshire, au Royaume-Uni. La recherche émergente sur le traumatisme urbain dans le domaine de la géographie a exploré la manière dont la violence d'attrition « lente » joue dans le temps et l'espace, mettant l'accent sur les complexités des processus spatiotemporels au niveau du traumatisme collectif. Les stratégies de ARTICLE HISTORY

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Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK

Emery

2020

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Since the 2000s, different forms of resistance to these processes have emerged. While some groups value and defend local communities, their self-management and selfcare (Guëll & Yopo Díaz;Pérez, 2018;Tironi & Rodríguez-Giralt, 2017), others seek to protect and visibilize them in urban spaces (Palacios, 2018). It is in this context of change and social tension that the article is interested in nostalgia as a way of making sense of the current world.…”

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Nostalgic neighborhood belongings: Theorizing the interrelationship among nostalgias, belongings and neighborhood changes

Colin

2021

The Sociological Review

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Depending on one’s socio-territorial contexts, age, and time spent residing in the same place, the spatial-temporal experience of belonging is lived differently. Within this framework, this article looks at perspectives of neighborhood belonging in long-term residents aged 65 years and older. Based on the narratives of 51 people from three neighborhoods of Valparaíso, Chile, who participated in the 2019 workshops and/or in-depth interviews, I identify different types of nostalgic senses of belonging; and examine the social and spatial conditions that influence their formation. From this empirical research, I argue that these belongings are based on daily practices that refer to the past neighborhood and that, at the same time, are embodied in their current materialities. The results show, on the one hand, the role of nostalgia in the formation of a belonging, from the past to the present; and, on the other, the influence of place in these experiences. From the above, this article contributes to the conceptualization of the material dimension of nostalgic belongings and their interrelationships among nostalgias, belongings, and changes in social and physical environments.

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“…This symbiosis pointed to an absence making itself present that was suggestive of what Margarita Palacios has described as the "material testimony of abandoned objects." 20 In the following section I elaborate on the link established by Palacios between thing theory and affect theory as I attempt to correspond the experience I had at Rhosydd's ruins to a fragmentary written history of the quarry's barrack life.…”

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Mining Things: Confronting Loss and Flux in the Slate Industry Ruins of Northwest Wales

Wigdel-Bowcott¹

2020

Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal

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The aesthetics of memory: Ruins, visibility and witnessing

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK

Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK

Nostalgic neighborhood belongings: Theorizing the interrelationship among nostalgias, belongings and neighborhood changes

Mining Things: Confronting Loss and Flux in the Slate Industry Ruins of Northwest Wales

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