The Working Man's Game: The Football Clubs of the Midlands and North-West as a Case Study of Post-Industrial Heritage

该项目侧重于西北和中部地区的足球俱乐部，作为一个案例研究，以改变我们定义和理解后工业遗产本身的卓越框架。根据后处理工作对文化遗产的定义，关注不同利益集团对意义的仪式性投射，该项目将足球俱乐部定义为后工业遗迹和“活的社会遗产”机构。使用基于后工业遗产的三个基本功能(即创造场所、重建和挪用)的分析框架，应表明足球俱乐部在后工业背景下培养亲地性的场所特性，重建和维持想象中的工业社区，并对授权遗产话语的新突变进行抗争，最终提供对抗去工业化创伤的本体论保障。反过来，这将意味着更普遍的需要重新构建和重新定义怀旧，将其定义为一个多层面的、偶然的关键过程，并在未来的后工业遗产研究中重新定位连续性过度分离。这个项目将遗产概念化为一个多义的文化过程，质疑传统的专业中心，探索遗产的不和谐，关注工人阶级的生活经验，展示跨学科的理论，该项目位于“新工人阶级研究”和“批判性遗产研究”的交界处。

This project focusses on the football clubs of the North-West and the Midlands as a case study to shift our pre-eminent frameworks for defining and understanding post-industrial heritage itself. Accordant to a post-processual working definition of cultural heritage, concerned with ritualistic projection of meaning by various interest groups over materiality, this project defines football clubs as post-industrial relics and institutions of "living social heritage". Using an analytical framework based on three fundamental functions of post-industrial heritage, namely place-making, reconstruction and appropriation, it shall be shown that football clubs foster topophilic place identities, reconstruct and sustain imagined industrial communities in a post-industrial context and contest emergent mutations of the Authorised Heritage Discourse, ultimately providing ontological security against the trauma of deindustrialisation. In turn, this will suggest a more general need to restructure and redefine nostalgia as a multi-faceted, contingent critical process and re-centre continuity overdisjuncture in future studies of post-industrial heritage. Conceptualising heritage as a polysemic cultural process, questioning traditional centres of expertise, exploring heritage's dissonance, focusing on the lived experience of working class people and exhibiting theoretical interdisciplinarity, this project is located at the juncture of "New Working Class Studies" and "Critical Heritage Studies."