Rust Belt Industrial Ruination in the Working-Class Imagination: The Descendants- [electronic resource]
Rust Belt Industrial Ruination in the Working-Class Imagination: The Descendants- [electronic resource]
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214101923
- ISBN
- 9798380831109
- DDC
- 306
- 저자명
- Davis, Natasha.
- 서명/저자
- Rust Belt Industrial Ruination in the Working-Class Imagination: The Descendants - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : Columbia University., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(508 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Ivy, Marilyn.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation asks: what has happened to the children and grandchildren of former industrial workers, those who came of age in the shadow of industrial ruination in the Rust Belt? It draws on 105 interviews with working-class descendants who grew up in or near the Mon Valley in Pennsylvania, to explore how those descendants engage with industrial ruins. For most, the ruins recalled the breakdown of the employer-employee social contract, a sense of betrayed tradition, and the current (abysmal) state of affairs for the working class. Most advocate for the destruction of the ruins, as the loss and failure embodied by industrial ruination acts as a trap, imprisoning them in the past. Their attempts to build a new working-class identity require letting go of industrial work and the memories of the lost past. For a wider range of perspectives, two other groups of descendants were interviewed-fifteen arsonists and four cultural producers (novelists). The arsonists, who set fire to abandoned buildings, draw on regional fire symbolism and maintain their inherited association between work and identity as they struggle to resurrect industry. The novelists, who have all published in the vein of American Gothic literature, are seeking to reinterpret the past to serve the needs of the present, using supernatural figures alongside ruins in their novels in order to allow the main characters to identify, recover, and reinterpret a hidden past, which allows for mourning and the formulation of a new class identity. Each of these groups of descendants is cobbling together different versions of working-class identity, but all show that navigation of economic restructuring is a process of continual transformation. Descendants' imaginative constructions are emblems not of solidity or permanence, but rather revision and reinvention.
- 일반주제명
- Cultural anthropology.
- 일반주제명
- Sociology.
- 일반주제명
- Social structure.
- 키워드
- Mon Valley
- 키워드
- Ruins
- 키워드
- Rust Belt
- 기타저자
- Columbia University Anthropology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-05A.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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