Do regional post-industrial identities pose a challenge to notions of a single 'nationally valued' British industrial heritage?

该项目旨在研究不同的区域后工业身份是否对康沃尔郡和大曼彻斯特郡作为案例研究的“国家价值”英国工业遗产的概念构成挑战。自20世纪80年代以来，工业遗产主要与有形工业遗迹的保护和展示保持一致，优先研究稀有和早期的机械，交通网络和直立结构。这种研究范式，通常存在于国家层面，延续了工业遗产的“理想”遗产;清洁，错位和管理遗产的经验，反映了被广泛称为“授权遗产话语”。通过仔细研究这个“国家价值”的英国工业遗产的属性，并将其与影响独立的后工业区域身份形成的细微差别进行对比，该项目可以开始批判性地接近和解决一些更广泛的问题，目前面临的工业遗产作为一个新兴的研究领域。这种新的方法来研究工业遗产是重要的时候，工业遗产的学者和从业人员经常表示关注人口老龄化，广泛缺乏阶级，种族和性别多样性，在公共利益水平的差异和臭名昭著的困难，在确保资金继续破坏工业遗产的学术发展。

This project aims to examine if varying regional post-industrial identities pose a challenge to notions of a 'nationally valued' British industrial heritage by examining Cornwall and Greater Manchester as case studies. Industrial heritage has, since the 1980s, principally aligned itself with the conservation and presentation of tangible industrial remains, prioritising the study of rare and early machinery, transport networks and upstanding structures. This research paradigm, often present at the national level, perpetuates the 'desirable' legacies of industrial heritage; clean, dislocated and managed heritage experiences which mirror what has become widely termed as the 'Authorised Heritage Discourse'. By closely examining the properties of this 'nationally valued' British industrial heritage and contrasting it with the nuances which influence the formations of separate post-industrial regional identities, this project can begin to critically approach and address some of the broader issues that currently face industrial heritage as an emerging area of research. This new approach to the study of industrial heritage is significant at a time where industrial heritage scholars and practitioners frequently express concern over the ageing demographic, a broad lack of class, race and gender diversity, diametric differences in levels of public interest and notorious difficulties in securing funding which continues to blight the academic development of industrial heritage.