‘We don't even know who owns it’
The infrastructural imaginary of Spruce Pine, NC
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18950847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D T Scott (0000-0002-3682-0591, Clemson University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 900-919 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09502386.2021.1895255 |
| OpenAlex | W3135656048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
This project explores in/visibility, publicity, and politics in the infrastructural imaginary of Spruce Pine, a mining town in the US state of North Carolina. Through participant observation and other direct experiences, and as an interdisciplinary exercise in studying from below, I examine how the town's supplying of high-quality quartz (HQQ) to high-tech industries is entangled with their promoted identity as a gem-mining location. From the perspective of ideological- and material-discursive practices, I examine processes of open secreting, disarticulation from a ‘high tech’ identity and its connotations, and a nostalgic emphasis on the town's gem-mining identity. The political ramifications of these entanglements are presented in the example of the town's pro-Trump Fourth of July parade. I conclude by reflecting on how the complex entanglements of seemingly contradictory ideological practices work in part due to their alignment with regional culture and history
Aesthetics · Art · Ideology · Media studies · Parade · Political science · Politics · Publicity · Sociology · The Imaginary · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Law · Mining and Resource Management
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |