Titanic Struggle
Memory, Heritage and Shipyard Deindustrialization in Belfast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4743881 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pete Hodson (0000-0003-4034-373X, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Pages | 224-249 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbz003 |
| OpenAlex | W2916552212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 21 |
Titanic Quarter has emerged as Belfast’s premier tourist destination in recent years. This article examines ongoing regeneration efforts alongside the rundown of Harland & Wolff shipyard, which formerly occupied the Titanic Quarter site, and the delicate politics of Northern Ireland peacebuilding. East Belfast oral histories complement recently released state papers to analyze the intentions (and perceptions) of Titanic-themed urban transformation. The connected processes of deindustrialization, regeneration and industrial heritage are unpacked to better understand the cultural erasure and economic marginalization that can afflict displaced workers and communities. Lived social experiences have been largely ignored in heritage interpretations at Titanic Quarter in favour of non-contentious narratives serving the aims of state and corporate actors. Ultimately, the article questions whether attempts to create neutral ‘heritage memory’ tackles underlying divisions in post-conflict Northern Ireland.
Archaeology · Art · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Deindustrialization · Industrial heritage · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Quarter (Canadian coin) · Shipbuilding · Shipyard · Sociology · State (computer science) · Tourism · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
Assessing the social values of historic shopping arcades
Ruinen und Vergessene Orte
Strategien von Frieden und Erneuerung in Belfast
All aboard Belfast’s ‘brandwagon’
Heritage trails and the framing of place authenticity in Belfast’s Titanic memoryscape
Making sense of the ruins
Restricted Access to Remembrance
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams
The plight of former workers in socialist China
Contradictions of indigenous cognition and heritage evaluation under political transformations in a working-class community in Tianjin, China
Só resta o passado para a classe trabalhadora? Notas sobre desindustrialização e história social do trabalho
Reticence, gender, and deindustrialisation
Heritage-making in the capitalocene
Images of Industrial Cities of Tatarstan in the Vision of the Leaders of Urban Communities and Ordinary Residents
The Invention Of Tradition
Very British Rebels
The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants
Creating Jobs, Manufacturing Unity
Spaces for Consumption
Narrating Past and Future
Beyond Aesthetics
Youngstown's ‘Ghost’? Memory, Identity, and Deindustrialization
Contemporary Archaeology and the City
Young People, Job Search and Local Labour Markets
The Deindustrialization of America
Bound in darkness and idolatry”? Protestant working-class underachievement and unionist hegemony
A Pleasingly Blank Canvas
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Sectarianism, Socioeconomic Competition and the Political Economy of Ulster Loyalism
Closing Moulinex
Return to Titanic and lost in the maze
Disadvantage and New Prosperity in Restructured Belfast
Local Histories in Northern Ireland
Religion and Employment in Northern Ireland
Titanic
| Citations per year | 2.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |