Introduction
Towards a Political Understanding of New Ruins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4383502 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daryl Martins (0000-0002-5685-4553, Department of Sociology University of York York YO10 5DD UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1037-1046 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12116 |
| OpenAlex | W1926560745 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 33 |
This debate section gathers together contributions from cultural historians, political geographers, urban sociologists and architectural writers on new forms of ruination in contemporary landscapes. Their case studies span examples of ruins in China, North America, Ireland and Ukraine, as well as reviewing cultural representations of ruined, remote and peripheral spaces in England and Greece. Many wider cultural representations of ruined landscapes are primarily visual; whilst these have great value in alerting wider publics to the debris of global capitalism, neoliberalism and state-sanctioned processes of cultural imperialism, what is needed within academic contributions to the ruinology literature is a deeper understanding and articulation of the wider contexts within which ruination occurs. Therefore, several contributions supplement visual representations of ruination with ethnographic and first-person accounts of places on the ground, whereas other contributions offer readings of ruined landscapes that are rich in political histories and policy details. Connections are made to wider contemporary debates around 'forensic architecture' and critical archaeologies of the present and recent past. What connects these contributions is a commitment to situating ruins within their historical, policy and social contexts, and working through ruination to open out political readings of landscape
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Ethnography · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Architecture
The post-industrial English canalscape
Arruinamento e regeneração do espaço edifìcado na metrópole do século XXI
The origins and evolution of a research agenda on new urban ruins
On Aqueducts and Anxiety
Climate change as landscape ruination
Invisible Legacies and Rural/Urban Dynamics in Heritagization Process of Soviet-Era Collective Farm Buildings
Transformed landscapes and a transnational identity of class
The sublime object of Detroit
Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture
Worlding austerity
The Making of Post-Post-Soviet Ruins
An environmental aesthetic approach to ruins
Ruins of the Anthropocene
Enquanto eu dormia, cavaram uma cova no fundo do meu peito
Industrial Ruins
Devastation but also Home
Nostalgia for Ruins
Anxious Landscapes
Petrified ruin
A poetic urbanism
Industrial and Human Ruins of Postcommunist Europe
Repossession
After Method
Regarding the pain of others
Reckoning with ruins
Wounded cities
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Ruins and History
Envisioning Urban Histories
Memory, Uncertainty and Industrial Ruination
Ruinopolis
The New Ruins of Ireland? Unfinished Estates in the Post-Celtic Tiger Era
Translating Space
The Political Economy of Urban Ruins
Decay or Endurance? The Ruins of Socialism
The Death of Great Ships
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Observed Decay
Exorcizing Remains
Time to Destroy
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |