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Landscapes of Waste: Malmberget and Ignalina as Cultural Tools in Heritage Processes (2014)

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This essay considers two industrial sites, an old open-pit mine in Malmberget in northern Sweden and the closed Ignalina nuclear power plant in northeastern Lithuania, to see to what extent each might possibly become part of local heritage processes. Both sites once represented visions of progress and modernity, but today they present problems of waste and unemployment that evoke ambiguous feelings in their communities. These are wounded landscapes that are difficult to heal. However, the physical scars are also part of the stories that are the fabric of heritage, and these landscapes of waste may reemerge as new landscapes of memory and community identity that are directed toward the future.

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Authors & Contributors
Paolo de Vingo
Farinelli, Roberto
Bailly-Maître, Marie-Christine
Aretino, Daniela
Piergiovanni Damiani
Mordini, Maura
Journals
Science, Technology and Human Values
Environment and History
Der Anschnitt: Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur im Bergbau
Publishers
Insegna del Giglio
Franco Angeli
University of California Press
University of California, Berkeley
Concepts
Mines and mining
Landscape; landscapes
Environmental history
Technology
Mineral Resources
Mineral Industries
People
Linnaeus, Carolus
Time Periods
Medieval
Early modern
Renaissance
20th century
19th century
Ancient
Places
Italy
Europe
Alps (Europe)
Tuscany (Italy)
Piedmont
Sardinia
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