Titanic Belfast vs mémoires d’un naufrage : le patrimoine (post)industriel de la ville ne sombrera pas !

Chevalier, Dominique

doi:10.4000/belgeo.12812

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“…Regenerated, commodified and museumified, the site of the former shipyards retains of the working‐class only the evocative power of its memory, appreciated by gentrifiers 'precisely because it serves to distinguish them from traditional bourgeois, who traditionally look down on the working‐class.' (Chevalier, 2014:11) The workers themselves have otherwise symbolically and physically disappeared from this space. Through an overview of Titanic Quarter's memory landscape, we can grasp the political economy dimension which is often missing in the field of memory studies.…”

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Restricted Access to Remembrance: Problematic Usages of Industrial Memories in Belfast's Titanic Quarter

Davis

2024

Studies Ethnicity & National

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The paper addresses the contemporary usages of collective memory in the Titanic Quarter's project in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, elected officials proposed urban revitalisation policies that aimed to mitigate the effects of deindustrialisation and the ethnonational conflict. On the old shipyard wastelands, public authorities were relying on the redevelopment of the built environment to suggest a shared urbanity but also a shared past, a connection with a common space, mobilising the myths and memories of the Titanic to achieve this. Yet, in a globalised world where memory increasingly surpasses national borders, it bears into question who is the targeted audience of this revitalised urban memory? Through careful observations in the neighbourhood and its flagship museum, the paper aims to criticise the use and manipulation of a conflictual working‐class memory to sidestep Northern Ireland's sectarian divide.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%