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Locality, memory, reconstruction : the cultural challenges and possibilities of former single-industry communities / edited by Simo Hayrynen, Risto Turunen and Jopi Nyman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Company towns--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Company towns.
- Collective memory.
- Group identity.
- Plant shutdowns--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Plant shutdowns.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing the loss of their major industry. In a series of innovative case studies extending from New Zealand and Slovenia to the contemporary Nordic and Baltic States, the contributors address a wide range of topical issues. These include the role of the community's past as a marker of its newly reconstructed identity and the importance of local traditions, landscapes, and place-related memories in post-in...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE; PART I; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART IV; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-43649-3
- 1-4438-3540-4
- 9786613436498
- OCLC:
- 827209510
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