Mediating the decline of industrial cities : knowledge production, heritage-making and urban transformation in postwar Europe / edited by Christoph Brüll, Sebastian Haumann, Stefan Krebs, and Jens van de Maele.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : mediating the transformation and decline of industrial cities / Christoph Brüll, Sebastian Haumann, Stefan Krebs and Jens van de Maele -- "It'll all be over with this place in two years" : deindustrialisation and the future of work and place on late-1960s Tyneside / Matt Beebee -- Mediating knowledge in a European (semi-)periphery : youth, labour and urban research in Romania in the 1960s and 1970s / Mara Marginean -- Being unemployed : deindustrialisation as an issue in the periodicals published by initiatives for the unemployed in the Ruhr during the 1980s / Sebastian Haumann -- Photography mediating change : the role of images during the decline of Luxembourg's industrial south / Viktoria Boretska -- Interpreting, mediating and coping with deindustrialisation : churches as urban actors in Manchester from the late 1960s to the 1980s / Sarah Thieme -- "We swallow the dirt" : popular and governmental perceptions of metallurgical air pollution in Luxembourg during the Trente Glorieuses / Jens van de Maele -- How the working class in the Longwy region dealt with the restructuring of the steel industry / Théo Georget -- Memory, heritage and the post-steel city : mediating the transformation of Sheffield since 1990 / Chris Corker and James Fenwick -- The classic slum? : heritage discourses, ideologies of transition and the remaking of post-industrial Salford (1985-2021) / Carole O'Reilly -- Working-class memories and legacies of deindustrialisation through cultural creation in Asturias, Spain / Irene Díaz Martínez -- The origins of memory construction through film in the context of deindustrialisation in French Lorraine / Nadège Mariotti -- Digital unter Tage - (data) mining life stories and social culture in the Ruhr Area / Dennis Möbus.

"This volume reflects the latest historiographical discussion about the decline, transformation, heritagization and re-invention of industrial cities in Europe during the late 20th century. It argues that the notion of "mediation" as it has been used in the history of technology helps to shed new light on the processes of understanding changes of industrial cities before, during and after the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. The contributors investigate how different actor groups, such as scientists, union members, journalists, politicians, artists, and historians, mediated the understanding of decline, the anticipated future, and the heritage of industrial cities. The authors look at a wide range of European cities during different phases of decline and transformation. The book is aimed at scholars of urban history and industrial history, as well as contemporary European history, the history of technology, and deindustrialization studies. The contributions also resonate with discussion in neighboring fields such as urban studies, media studies, cultural studies, sociology and digital history"-- Provided by publisher.

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